Today is our last digital literacy class. Next week we begin Algebra Lab. As this is our last class, a final reflection is needed. One of the most important things in Digital Literacy that I have learned is how to be a good digital citizen. Out of all of the activities, assignments, and projects we did I most enjoyed the country researching project because I required us to one learn how to make a good presentation and two because it was something I was interested in. I didn't really like coding. I found it to be boring and a waste of my time. I think that I will be using NoodleTools and Prezi in my future classes because they will be most useful to me. The playlists that we used helped to create a learning plan and to keep everyone on track, but some of the things on the playlists I already knew and didn't need to spend a long amount of time on. The overall class felt really slow to me. It felt like we were doing the same thing every day and accomplishing not as much as I would in my other classes. The screencast videos were helpful to some degree. They didn't teach us everything we needed to know though about what we were doing. Overall, I wish if I was to take this class again that it wasn't as slow. I understand some people like the slower pace, but for me I like to work at my own pace (which is pretty fast) so this wasn't ideal for me
Padlet was cool, but since we didn't use it often I felt like I didn't get enough knowledge about it to make an opinion about it. The blog questions we did at the beginning of the year certainly helped with this blog, but I felt like we never focused on making our blogs really good. The blog don'ts I felt were important to know, but we just kept going over them that half of the things we did with the blog don'ts weren't necessary. The social media and your future playlist I felt was one of the most important things I learned in this class. Same thing with the college bound activity. It really opened my eyes to the real world. The digital citizen project was not needed as we already knew everything and no research was needed. We could of used popplet, google slides, and screencast for another project that was more interesting to us. Everything about the licensing was important to learn and I didn't really know a lot about it so it expanded my knowledge. I really like the country research project and everything we learned doing it. And finally as I have said before I didn't like coding. Although I didn't like some of the digital tools we used I am glad I was able to learn how to use them. They will definitely help me in the future.
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![]() Today in class we learned to code some more. We used the website Code.org which provides things called "Hour of Code" where in less than an hour you can learn to do simple coding. When we first started this assignment, I choose to do the Minecraft hour of code. I successfully completed it. Today, I first started off by doing the hour of code called artist, this was too hard and confusing for me though so I gave up on it. I finally ended up choosing the Infinity Play Lab. This one was easy to understand and complete. For the end the "game" a created was for the user to have a character touch another character by using the arrow keys. I learned that coding is a valuable thing to learn, if you want to program different things. I must admit, it was pretty cool being able to move a character around on the screen by myself however, I don't really like to code. I find it time consuming and sort of boring and hard to understand. This for me was the most challenging part of getting through this assignment. In the future I don't think I will be coding as it has no interest to me, but maybe another teacher will assign this work to me and then this information will be used. For a while now we have been working on creating a project in Prezi about a country. As you know Casey and I have chosen Sweden as our country of topic. Since then we have created a Prezi, added information, audio, and pictures. Right now we are beginning the final stages of our project. We still need to find a TouTube video to include in the Prezi and a few more pictures, plus a work cited "slide". If you don't know what Prezi is, it is a program that is like Microsoft powerpoint or google slides in the sense of being able to present information, but Prezi doesn't really have "slides". Instead Prezi has a big picture look at all of the information that you can then zoom in on in order to see the information being presented more clearly (if that makes any sense).
Prezi allows you to make anything "zoomable". This I found very interesting and cool. We were able to rotate text and then zoom in on it to see it in a straighter way. This isn't as easy to understand without seeing it tough. It was a little difficult to arrange the text in a way that flows, but in the end Casey and I found a good way to go from point to point. In the future I will be able to use Prezi in order to create more dynamic presentation to capture the audiences attention. Update 10/26/16: Here is a picture of our finished Prezi We have since moved on from fair use and onto another project about a country. My partner Casey and I chose Sweden as our country. To research this country we have used CulturalGrams, Britannica, and World Book to gain information on Sweden. They are all online databases that our school has subscribed to. I like how in CultureGrams you can click on the different tabs of information so it is more organized and easier to read. Britannica on the other hand has one page of information that you have to scroll through. This isn't as convenient and nice to read. After we found our information we put it into NoodleTools. We created note cards on NoodleTools to take down important information. At first I was hesitate towards this because I like to take notes by hand, but as it turns out taking notes on the computer is easier for this project.
Today in class we were put into groups to work on an assignment about fair use. For this we had to watch a video that Professor Faden did using Disney movies to create an educational video about fair use. We then went over the guidelines for fair use to decide if he used Disney's movies in a legal and correct way. These guidelines include:
The difficult part of this assignment (even though this wasn't really needed) was understanding the video. Comprehending what they were saying was a little difficult since they were multiple videos cut and edited together. This assignment was interesting because we were able to see exactly what makes something fair use and how to determine if it was in fact fair use. This information will be helpful to me in my future. It will be helpful because I will know how to judge my future school projects and essays to see if they are fair use. With these guidelines I will never be found in a legal battle over copyright. ![]() Fall Leaves by Kaitlin C. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. With this Creative Commons license others must attribute my work, not use this image for commercial use, and use this exact license if they were to alter my work in any way or reuse it. I chose these restrictions because I do not want anyone in the future to be able to make money off of the photo I have taken since this is my original work. If anyone is going to make money from this is will be me. Attribution comes with every license but this is especially important to me because I want credit for taking and editing this photo. I chose the share alike because I don't want people down the road making altercations and getting money for my original work. This is my reasoning and restrictions for my photo Fall Leaves.Today in class we learnt exactly what copyright is all about. Did you know there are certain rules to copyright? They are:
Today in class Kaley and I were able to finally record our presentation. We chose to do our project on how to make a positive digital footprint. In this we tell the viewers what to include and not include in their digital footprint. We also included some suggestions for how to make your digital footprint positive and not negative. Well here it is:
Today in class Kaley and I worked on finishing our script which we are nearly done with. We just have to go back in and do a bit of revising and editing, after that we are ready to use screencastify to make our presentation. Screencastify is a recording extension on google chrome that anyone can use to make recorded videos. It is really simple to use and understand. This is what it looks like when you click on the little movie film icon: From here you are able to record. Screencastify makes it super easy to use! It gives you a 3 second count down to when it starts to record which is super useful. It also tries really hard to focus on just your voice instead of background noise. This is amazing for a free product.
I found it interesting that all of this could be included in a free a basic program. WOW! Nothing was hard to understand once the teacher explained everything to us. In the future this will be very useful if I ever get another project like this. Today in class Kaley and I worked on finished our works cited page and making a script. You may be wondering, why do they need to make a script? Well, instead of presenting this in front of the class in present time, we will be recording our voices and attaching it the voice over to our google slides presentation. We scripted about half of the presentation, and I have to go back and type up the rest of what I am going to say.
I found it interesting, how when you script it is easier to get across the exact message to want to share. In the past, standing in front of a group of classmates is not only nerve racking, but you may not be able to get across everything you want to say. You may leave out certain phrases you may of wanted to include in your presentation, but this is not the case when you can script exactly what you are going to say on a voice over. Nothing was very difficult about scripting, except for finding where to use the statistics we found in our presentation. Overall, this was a new experience that I am excited to do as I will probably never be given the opportunity to script my work again! |
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