Week+3

Week 3 This week I learnt about how to make a podcast, movies and **Photo Stories**. In order to create podcasts we were shown how to use the program Audacity. With **Audacity** one is able to simply record their voices. From there the user is able to edit their voice recording, adding sound effect, altering pitch etc. As well you are able to layer in music, etc.

To create movies we were taught how to use **Windows Movie Maker**. With **Windows Movie Maker**, one is able to layer in video clips, or a single continuous file. As well you can add in a voice over commentary, using files that you have created in **Audacity**.

Another program that we were introduced to for media creation, was **Microsoft Photo Stories**. It is similar to **Windows Movie Maker** in that you are able to make movie projects. It differs from **Windows Movie Maker** because you do not use video clips or a video file to create the visual aspect of your project. Instead you use photo's to create the visual aspect of your project, and can add audio narration, text overlay and background music.

I found the **Will Richardson article** to be very informative because he highlights the excellent point that as teachers we are focused on the newest technologies and how to use them to get through to students. What we neglect to focus on as much is the fact that the curriculum has to be transformed, not revised, to take full advantage of the technology that students posses today and so that the curriculum works in the new tech world, so that we are not doing them a disservice.