Candice's Classroom Blog
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
10 Tips for Creating and Editing a Video
10 Tips for Creating and Editing a Video:
- Make sure your video is in wmv format if you're using Windows Movie Maker to edit it
- Make sure to have earphones or speakers so you can hear the sound to edit and watch it
- Set aside a good amount of time to do editing
- Don't exit the Movie Maker program without making sure your video is saved
- Adding transitions can help your video move from one topic to the other smoothly
- Make sure your opening title catches your audiences attention, not only in the phrase you use but in the way it appears on the screen
- The more you film your video in sequence the easier your video will be to edit
- Once you've finished editing watch your complete video once or twice to make sure it is edited properly
- No matter the subject make your video enteratining to watch
- Have fun!
10 Tips for Creating a Blog
10 Tips for Creating a Blog:
- Make it exciting to look at
- Make sure you have a bio
- Update it regularly
- Make sure it's informative
- Make previous posts east to access
- Have an explanation of what your blog is about
- Include pictures of yourself and the things your blogging about
- Make sure the background color or picture allows your viewers to read the text
- Use blogspot.com for a free easy starter blog
- Have fun making it!
10 tips for Dreamweaver
10 tips for Dreamweaver:
- Watch the color of your text. Make sure your viewers can easily read the text on your website.
- Watch the color of your background. Make sure it doesn't make the text hard to read or detract from any pictures.
- Make sure your pages isn't too wide so that your viewers don't have to scroll horizontally.
- Use images to enhance not detract from the page
- Update your website regularly
- Make sure your links work properly
- Make sure any images you use blend in with the color of your background
- Make sure any images you use don't have too many pixels because the more pixels the longer for the picture to load.
- Make your website visually appealing
- Make your website organized so that viewers can easily find what they're looking for.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
10 Tips for Webquest
10 tips for Webquest:
1. Make sure to choose a subject that you will be able to easily find websites on to build your webquest. (Ex. If you choose Math as your subject there aren't going to be as many sites as there would be if you chose Social Studies or Science)
2. Google or Bing your subject, topic and grade level are very useful to find many different links to many different websites
3. Copy and paste all the URL's of the websites you want to use to a word document with a small description of what was on the website. This will give you easy access to the websites and helpyou remember the information on the website that you wanted to use.
4. Make your instructions or directions clear for the webquest assignment as a whole and for each individual question or link.
5. Double check that all the websites you've put on your completed webquest lead your students to the correct place on the website and work properly.
6. Make your webquest as interactive and enjoyable as possible.
7. Webquests work better for higher grades like 2nd grade and up, because students will be able to do this assignment independently.
8. Don't make your questions to abstract so that students have a hard time finding the answers on the websites.
9. Make sure students are learning something through completeing the webquest
10. Make the webquest long enough so they can learn someting but not so long that they get bored doing it
1. Make sure to choose a subject that you will be able to easily find websites on to build your webquest. (Ex. If you choose Math as your subject there aren't going to be as many sites as there would be if you chose Social Studies or Science)
2. Google or Bing your subject, topic and grade level are very useful to find many different links to many different websites
3. Copy and paste all the URL's of the websites you want to use to a word document with a small description of what was on the website. This will give you easy access to the websites and helpyou remember the information on the website that you wanted to use.
4. Make your instructions or directions clear for the webquest assignment as a whole and for each individual question or link.
5. Double check that all the websites you've put on your completed webquest lead your students to the correct place on the website and work properly.
6. Make your webquest as interactive and enjoyable as possible.
7. Webquests work better for higher grades like 2nd grade and up, because students will be able to do this assignment independently.
8. Don't make your questions to abstract so that students have a hard time finding the answers on the websites.
9. Make sure students are learning something through completeing the webquest
10. Make the webquest long enough so they can learn someting but not so long that they get bored doing it
Monday, November 5, 2012
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