My Product

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Post #1

Image
Hello, I'm Alice. Welcome to my Genius Hour blog! Valle, R. (2017, January 24.) Providing a Bigger Purpose with a Genius Hour Project [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/3xslts3. Now, to be honest, I struggled with coming up with an idea for Genius Hour. I have quite a number of passions, but none of them felt right for Genius Hour. For example, I love reading, but I wasn't sure how I could make a driving question out of that. Lombrozo, T. (2015, December 14.) Confusion [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://n.pr/2DCsDiT. How did I eventually come up with my question, you ask. Well, I thought about how I'm in a teacher program, I'm passionate about teaching, this is a technology course and technology is important and only getting more important in teaching. Then I thought: how can I connect technology and teaching in a way that is personally relevant to me and hopefully helpful to others? India Today Web Desk. (2018, October 8.) Technology, technology uses, ca...
Read more

Post #4

Image
This week, I worked on my TED Talk. I was pretty set from the get-go to use PowerPoint and create a narrated slideshow, which I would then turn into a video. This is a very useful tool of PowerPoint that maybe not a lot of people know about or use. It’s a great way to combine the slideshow functions of PowerPoint with the voice recording feature of audio platforms. To be honest, I am relieved that we don’t have to give a presentation in person. I’ve never been a fan of presentations and would in fact say that public speaking is a fear of mine. However, my friend pointed out that teaching involves giving presentations every day, and that made me think, huh, that’s true. Thinking about it that way, that this TED Talk was just a form of teaching, made it easier for me. I invite you to try the record feature on PowerPoint yourself. If you need help, you can check out this article: Record a slide show with narration and slide timings on the Microsoft Support website. Also, you can watc...
Read more

Post #3

Image
  Hello again. First, I wanted to start off with a video clip of one of my classes on Zoom. This is a math class where I use the screen share and annotate features I mentioned in my last post. As you can see, these features are very useful for class, in particular something like a math class where you often have to draw diagrams. This video was made using Zoom’s built-in recording function, which is very handy. It creates a video that you can either save in cloud storage for a paid account (which I’ll go into later) or on your device. On another note, this is the first time I’ve ever uploaded anything onto YouTube. While I’ve had a YouTube account for many years, I’ve only ever used it to consume content, not create content. It was interesting to upload a video and see what YouTube is like from the other side, so to speak. Now, I want to talk about some downsides of Zoom. A major positive of Zoom is that it is free to use. However, the features for a free account are limited and ha...
Read more