Blog 2 Reflections- Digital Images, Podcasting and Digital Video




Taj Mahal (Original) from my Trip to India



Taj Mahal (Cropped and coloured)








The above pictures have been resized and cropped and coloured using Mobaphoto

Use of Picnik to do the same work as under



India Gate(original)









Magic of Picnik



PODCASTS/MINICASTS-
 I liked the minicasts a lot and I made one as well. I thought it gave me an opportunity to put pictures along with audio( for all those visual learners). My only problem was that I wanted to put my spoken bit( about Taj Mahal) to run in the background but could not get it going inspite of repeated attempts. So I had to make do with a song.

My first Podcast is uploaded here and below is a SWOT analysis on the tool

Reference- Podcasting- Presentation by Hamdan, F., Saleh, D., William, V. retrieved on April 7th from http://www.docstoc.com/docs/62832649/Podcasting

Digital Video-
This animation video was made for my son's ICT project in year 6 where in about 450 digital photos were taken and then uploaded to the Windows Movie Maker.For the background music tune (What you want- Version 2)  was picked up from The Learning Place. the completion of the project not only taught my son and me a lot of new skills but gave him a sense of achievement and fulfillment as well.
Since I could not post the .wmv file to the blog I had to open an account in You Tube so as to get the embed code!!. For me it has been a learning experience as I have never had the opportunity to have a play around with this  wide array of digital tools. As I am progressing and my familiarity increases, I am trying out new methods and techniques to get results.



The below video presentation explains about use of Digital Video in education

Digital Storytelling with Movie Maker