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Summary C&T 301 June 13 & 14
June 13- We talked about instructional and educational games and their importance within the classroom. Example: Google à Phet à Simulations à Electricity, Magnets, & Circuits à Electric Field Hockey

We spent the rest of the class period working on this week’s assignment and looking ahead to next week’s media assignment. We had the opportunity to “play” around with the different medias to fine-tune our original ideas.

__iMovie-__ This is a program that allows you to edit video clips. It is mainly an editing tool. You can add clips in between an already made movie to review what is going on or add a person talking about an important reference that the video is trying to make. An iMovie is great for visual movie clips. __Flash-__ This is less professional then iMovie. It is not used to edit video, but to add text and objects. It is mainly used as an instructional video tool because you can add things like arrows and circles to make instructions more clear. Flash is used best for recording input from the computer. – borrowed from AmyRousselo

June 14- The first part of the class period, we spent presenting this week’s assignments and receiving positive critiques from Andrew. We were given a short amount of time to make changes to our work.

We looked over bad examples of powerpoints and discussed what things should have been done differently. We looked at an example of a good powerpoint done by Andrew with a recording of his voice that walks us through the slide.

Powerpoint adding sounds to graphics- Powerpoint à Slide Showà Action Button à Select button desires à Select the action

Layout- Format à Slide Layout à Select the layout preferred on the right hand side à double click on the layout desired (it only changes the current page layout)