I had fun playing around with PowerPoint the other day. I created my Animation assignment on there and I was surprised to know that PowerPoint has a lot of neat stuff you can do to jazz up your slide show. I guess I also had experience working with Animation when I created the movie on Windows Movie Maker for our presentation. I was surprised at how easy it was to use. How user-friendly is dragging and dropping your files onto the storyboard and adding transitions, effects, text, audio and narration? It was all relatively simple and I don't have much experience with multimedia but if someone as "technology-challenged" as I am is able to make a decent quality movie, then anyone can do it! Although I couldn't make up my mind on the different transitions and effects to insert to my movie and my narration was recorded and re-recorded about fifty million times, I was proud of my accomplishment and the fact that I did it all by myself!
Playing around with audio is really simple to do as well. The Audacity program is a great tool to use to record anything you want (except for copyrighted stuff, right?) I also got to playing around with audio when I narrated the timeline on my Movie Maker video.
I like the fact that these programs can be used in the classroom and can be used by the students to create their own multimedia. I'm eager to teach my students how to create their own animations and audio. I bet they'll be super excited because they will able to create their own projects using multimedia.
Signing Off
16 years ago
