ETC FINAL BLOG CHARLES SOLOMON

CSolomon_ETC_Final Project

Charles Solomon

RLLS PLAN

 OPTION 1

1.             Target Audience - 10^th -12^th Grade (Toddler’s or kids 6+months)

2.             Materials – TEST, handouts, architecture books, computer with Internet access, WORDLE, Tagxedo, PowerPoint, smart board., Various Shaped blocks for students to look at in groups (TV,VCR, MY BABY CAN READ PROGRAM

3.             Objectives –

·      Differentiate between the types and purposes of architectural drawings.

·      Produce the line conventions used on architectural drawings.

·      Develop good lettering techniques.

·      Present the words for the chapter in an important manner

·      Discover Words

·      Develop Wordle and Tagxedo in a fun interesting way

·      (LEARN and Understand basic words in a new Way)

4.             Procedure – The students will pull out the red architecture books and follow along with the PowerPoint’s and class discussion. Will be following along as we go over a few main topics from the chapter.

Discuss Types of Drawings(PowerPoint and discussion)

1. Plans (pg 73) - are views from the top down, a “bird’s-eye” view.
2. Elevations (73) - are flat two-dimensional views. Depth is indicated by a change in line weight. Heavier line weights are used for major building lines and areas close to the viewing plane. Lighter line weights are used for component details and areas farther from the viewing plane.
3. Sections (73) – show a view of one “slice” of a planned structure.
4. Detail drawings (74) – are drawn to reveal precise information about construction methods and materials.
5. Renderings (74) - are usually 1, 2, or 3-point perspective drawings. Often called pictorials, these show how the finished product is expected to look.
6. Models (74) – 3-D proportional replicas of a structure.

Look at the blue prints on page 77. Ask them what the line in front of service area represents? (Swing of the door)

Architectural Lettering

When drawings letters in architectural your letters should always be capitalized. Drawn at ¼” in height.  The line spacing between your letters should be exactly the same through out all your lines.

After this section have the student’s get into groups of 4 and pass a block to each group. They will look and sketch the Different views and number them.

(Watch Video with toddlers, go over my baby can read flash cards or picture book depending on the day, then use the WORDLE program)

5.             Web 2.0 Tool – Wordle and Tagxedo (SAME)

6.             Social Participation/Social Learning – The students will be collaborating on the design of their city and comparing their Wordle’s and Tagxedo the following day to see any similarities between each other’s. They also will be working in groups on the Design drawing using the Shaped blocks

(STUDENTS will learn in group watching the video and taking turns calling out words using the WORDLE picture)

7.             Making Connections – The student’s will be learning more about shapes and houses and how the drawings are designed for the upcoming house-building project. They will be using their knowledge about the strongest shape and Structures depending on the area learned above.

(The Children will pull from their knowledge of the my baby can read video’s)

8.             Create/Produce – The end product will be 2 word clouds.  One will be a Wordle word cloud and the other will be a Tagxedo word cloud. The students will also be collaborating in a group to create and design a city. The student’s will be electronically submitting there wordle and Tagxedo for me to print later and hang up around the classroom.  The student’s will also produce sketches of different shapes and begin designing a town using the knowledge of town needs that we have discussed in the chapter before.  (WORDLE CLOUD SHAPED LIKED DIFFERENT ANIMALS)

9.             Reflection – At the end of class we have a class discussion on how they feel that Wordle will be a useful in class and how would it be able to do it in other classrooms.

10.  Assessment –

What is the definition of Rendering?

Detail drawings are drawn to reveal ___________ information? (Precise)

What are models? (6 above)

Letters should always be what? _________________(Capitalized)

Line spacing should be exactly?  ___________________  (the same)

I will use the above questions for the student’s to use their notes to answer in a 5-minute time frame that will give me a grade on how well they understood the days’ lessons.

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PE5_WORDLE

I used wordle with the remain chapters of unit 1 of the classroom book to see if there was a word limit on what it could do. I did not find one with the words I used. I used chapters 2-4 which contained around 120 words.  I also did a wordle on it and also did a tagxedo because I wanted to do something else with wordle.


























I chose Tagxedo to do something different with just the normal wordle. I chose the opening of a key to show that this section is the key to the rest of the chapters in this book and the rest of our Multimedia class for the rest of the year. After I chose that I used the same words and put them in a Knight because every man who plays chess besides the Queen he loves the Knight.  So check out the Themes that Tagxedo have and use it to your advantage.  I love to use these. I can use them in so many diffrent ways. I also found out that the two biggest words that popped up in both of them was Networks and Business.

PE4_WORDLE

PE4_Wordle

I just wanted to narrow down Wordle and figure out what else can it do? I tried a few different post to see how it is and looked on the web to see if there was any places that would just pop up of it being used in the real world.   First place I found was on the White house website.

http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=103

this site actually said Technology Education At the top which is my major so I found it pretty interesting that it was the first thing that popped up.  After that I went on to work in it some more and find it on

http://www.edgalaxy.com/journal/2010/1/22/the-ultimate-guide-to-wordle-for-educators.html

On this site it actually gave lots of different examples of how to use Wordle to create a word cloud.

After that I actually went to wordle and just typed in some words from a student workbook using the words we would be using in chapters 1. I used the study guide answers and placed them in a wordle to help the students figure out which words would be used on the fill in the bank questions. This would be a great way to help the students with the words but have them find the definitions. Also I would use this as the first PowerPoint slide to begin the chapter.

SO EVERYONE JUST HAVE FUN AND SEE WHAT YOU CAN GET OUT OF IT.

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I choose to use Wordle which was discussed in the wimba session from last week. I found it is a great tool to introduce words in a chapter or lesson before hand. You can start the lesson by having these words up on the screen for the students to look at when it starts. You also can give every student a Chapter as an assignment and have them create a Wordle with the words from each Chapter. It is a captivating way of reaching  people. It is an attention grabber. Think about putting your likes and life that you have written down in a wordle and have on the screen on your opening day.  I love to use it for Introducing new ideas. I can copy and paste the words and definitions up there so it makes a fun opening to your video. I love to use it also with my sons words from My Baby Can Read so when its up on the TV he goes up and points at the words then points at his body part and its a fun way of having him try to locate the word on tv. In the classroom setting I would put this up with all the words and give a definition at the end of the week to see who can locate the word first and touch it on a Smart board.  It is a great too that in many different circles would be considered works of arts. Also your students can use it with famous poems or works of art in English class. For example they can take a famous speech by Malcolm X and paste it in wordle to create an interesting layout for the speech since it is black history month instead of the same old boring Research and summary of a famous person that most students due.

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PE3_IMOVIE

Lastly we enter into the final part of the lesson. The first thing that popped out to me was beat markers. I was lost in wondering what is a beat marker and where do they want you to place it. As I sat and listened it was very quick to figure out what they were. Then when you dragged the pictures into the video and it automatically put it where the beat markers were. That helped greatly because when I add pictures from classroom projects it still snaps and automatically flicks to the next scene where your beat markers are located. I did not know that you could add video effects to video and not just pictures. and when I say effects I am referring to glow, and cartoon. I knew how to stabilize clips but I never knew I could automatically hide those shaky parts that could not be stabilized. That is a great feature but I can remove it for the zoom in the clip adjustments and move the maximum zoom back out. I never even knew that IMOVIE had Freeze Frame and it was helpful to learn about it. It is a neat little feature to capture a facial expression for longer and would be helpful when I’m filming the kids dance and there faces.  Green screen is a great tool that I was always unable to use on Imovie before. I would always have to go to Pinnacle studio’s or premiere on a PC. I also learned that you can get GREEN screen felt from Walmart for very cheap.  At my last job I actually had a Blue SCREEN instead of the green screen that I used. The white balance was something that was needed. I always needed or had to do it before I filmed using the camera in a room but it helps a lot with this new camera.   Cutaway would work great when doing a scene to show the crowd then go back to someone speaking. I really think this whole tutorial should have been given as an assignment in month one. It would have helped us been better at it for the last 3 months.  Lastly my video imbed is of the pictures we did as an example with changes to the pictures and a small voiceover at the end. 

PE2_IMOVIE

The 2nd part of the video I learned a lot of intresting short cut so far. The biggest I learned is that I can go to the beginning or end of a clip and hit [ or ] to lenghten the end of the clip up to 1 second but the only draw back of this is that it pulls the 1 second from the original clip. Meaning if I cut a section out that section will come back when I lenghten it. The Search in music and sound effects is a great way to find that specific music you are looking for when you have a large library like I do.  I always thought that you had to add music just to the clip you wanted. I didn’t know you could add it to the whole background to play throughout the whole thing. I never heard of pinning background music to a specfic video frame. Another great feature is pinning to a scene. I always thought that If I moved the track before that the music would stay and I would have to readjust everything.  Also I always saw Edit Arrange Music Tracks but did not know that I could go in there and adjust the music tracks play order without having to go to the project window and move the tracks individually. Also pin tracks are purple where as regular music tracks are green. Another great feature to do is set up ducking on scenese when the music is covering speech.  Also you can add sound effects even when there is music playing.  If you hold down Cmd + Shift on a scene with sound in the bottom it will take the sound from what you have seleted and allow you to move it to where you wanted. Another great hint I received is that you should wear headphones when you are doing voicovers because if you don’t your scene volume would be recorded also.  Also you can add video effects to a picture which is a great feature. Cause it allows you to not have to do it in Photoshop or Iphoto and save the picture first but you can do it directly in the movie without damaging the original. Anothe great feature I fell in love with quickly was the precision editor. It would allow me to make highlight tapes and other features quicker.  It allows you to not have to delete the video but adjust it by just dragging a blue dot or clicking where you want the clip to adjust your cut too.

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In this post I went through the intro part of Imovie. I will break my post down into 3 sections by time. In the first 6 minutes of the tutorial I already learned that if I just tap the E button after I have the video section I want highlighted it automatically drags it up to the project section without me having to lift up my hand off the mouse and drag and drop.  I have been familiar with past Imovie’s but each new version teaches us and adds so many more features that I can never really keep up. I am just hyped to learn about the picture in picture feature and the green screen usage. I am hyped to learn about these features because before I would either have to go to Adobe premiere or to Pinnacle Studio’s on a Window’s based computer to do these before. Premiere is just rather difficult to use and the Window’s based computer always had a tendency to crash when you were trying to save or even during the middle of an upload. So I am ready to see what all this tutorial has in store for me. I did not even know I could skim it in full screen mode. Another Great Tip is Command Y which lets you see the date and time a video was created.

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