Now that I got past the design issues, I reflected on blogging itself. I find that the most challenging part of blogging is keeping up with it. I have set up several in the past and the students are all gung ho at first but then they move on to different things and the responses trickle down. I guess in the elementary school world this is more realistic than say an ongoing commercial blog. I have noticed though that often it happens there also. People get busy and don't always have time to keep updating the posts. Short term - such as this class, they can be very useful.
Thing 37: Green Screen Fun
The Rochester City School District received a grant for technology equipment last year which included a green screen and other recording equipment. I have used the equipment for some basic projects including student videos about famous landmarks, (ex: Flat Stanley going down Niagara Falls in a barrel.) I learned by experimenting without really knowing what I was doing. As with many of the cool tools, I decided to look in to different programs and options to do things right and find additional tools and ideas to work with the green screen. Also, as always with green screens, I went off in many different directions and learned about many other programs and ideas to use with the green screen idea. I had the Green Screen app on my IPad and that is what I use to create the images and videos, but I was very interested in the programs that did somewhat the same thing without the actual “green screen”. I had several pictures and videos that I had taken and wanted to w...
Good point, blogs are really great for short term projects like this. And as you said, for longer term projects, it depends on the person.
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