Final Project - Podcast

http://www.livetext.com/folder/4136324/j2ZaVE5k_Leonardo_Da_Vinci_1.mp4

This is my final podcast. My idea for the podcast would be to have my students create three- five minute biographies of people who have made some sort of positive impact on culture or society. I would assign certain people throughout the year, so as to make sure that the people would be appropriate and fit are curriculum schedule. I would make a list of people that we may not study directly or study very little of, so the student can learn about them. My list would contain people that have influenced art (as my example shows), science, math, literature and society.

I would use this podcast to serve three functions. The first would be for my students to practice their research skills while investigating their assigned person. And second, they would learn how to use technology to enhance their own work. I strongly feel that if it is important for me to learn, it is important for me to teach. The final function is to enhance learning by having the students teach their fellow classmates. Each photostory will be due on the first day of the week, so the student can transform it to an mp4 and update the weekly podcast. The class will be required by the end of the week to answer five questions the student writes up. This will insure that the students watch the podcast and pay attention to the work their fellow students did. I think students would enjoy doing the small research project.

Changes I made to pictures using Adobe photoshop were generally adding frames, feathering, and adding image effects. The first picture I added a black frame. The second picture I added the image effect of colorful center to put focus on the farmhouse. The fifth picture I feathered at 20 pixels on the angels faces, so as to have them stand out and draw student’s eyes to the two faces. The eighth, ninth, and eleventh pictures I added image effects using horizontal and quadrant color effects. Finally in the ninth picture I added a strokes effect and added a wood frame to make it look like the painting was brushed (add an artistic flair to it).