This week in class we learned about Zamzar. This is a free internet tool, where you can convert files. It is awesome, because you can download a video, change it's file format if needed and have it on your hard drive. It is pretty cool.
This assignment was fun. I had a little trouble at first getting my videos in a place I could find them. After that it was smooth sailing. I really enjoyed looking for videos that could be considered educational. It was fun to find this Bill Nye video, I remember watching Bill Nye the Science Guy as a kid. I don't know what else to say really, but I enjoyed this weeks' assignment.
I am definitely going to use this tool in the future. I love that I can search you tube for educational videos and then I can upload them to my own computer. This way I can put videos in a power point presentation, on my classroom blog, or just play the video for the class. I think it would be fun to have a video of the week that the class could journal about. It could be about something that we had learned about in the previous week. I just think it would be so fun, and I think my little first graders would love it. Hopefully it would make the subject come alive, and that way it would be easier for them to remember what we have just learned. I plan to also use the simulation kind of videos we talked about in class for virtual field trips.
This weeks video was interesting. It was a video about technology and students thoughts about how it is changing, and how they thought it would change in the future. I thought it brought up some interesting things about how our world is all about technology. It is pretty amazing. In the video one kid said how he thought one day we won't even have credit cards, that we will just use thumbprint technology. I can see how that could be very possible within a few years. It is exciting how technology keeps getting better and better. This video just made me realize once more how I need to be continually learning about new technology and not be afraid of it.
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