Playing with Technology #4

Last exploration today was images. I love using the image generators that we learned in Library2Play. This was created in Big Huge Labs - so much fun! The picture came from SuperFantastic on Flickr Creative Commons. Love the dog!

Playing with Technology #3

This exploration was focused on video. We could either use TeacherTube or Discovery Education. I chose Discovery Education because TeacherTube was taking a long time to load. However, when I uploaded my video into Windows Movie Maker, I had trouble with the audio. The audio would play fine until I placed it on the Storyboard and then the audio played much faster making it sound like chipmunk talk! I tried several things to see if I could change that, but haven't discovered a fix as of yet. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know! Until then, enjoy the chipmunk talk!

Again, this only took minutes to load from home and it would NOT load at work. Maybe there were too many of us clogging our super highway at work!

Playing with Technolog #2

Our second exploration today was Photostory. This is a program I was already comfortable using. However today I explored images from Discovery Education, one of our online databases provided by our district. There are some great images here! I attempted to load this during our meeting today, but it would never load. I left it loading for over 2 hours and never got it to load. I am now trying it from home! I am keeping my fingers crossed that it will work!

Yea! It worked. It finished loading in less than a minute. Wonder what the problem was today?

Playing with Technology #1

I have been wondering what direction to move with my blog. I have composed many post in my head (mostly in the car). Today I was given direction. In one of our library staff development meetings we reviewed and focused on some different technology skills so that we can better help our students and teachers with these on campus.

The first was audio:

Here we worked in Audacity and downloaded free music from Incompetech. This was a new sight for me. I definitely want to spend more time exploring this site. I also learned that you cannot post an audio file on your blog. I would have to post it on a wiki and then link my blog to it. Instead, I have chosen to use Photostory, add a few pics and import my music. Here it is if I can get it to load. (Getting things to load today took a long time!