Bringing It All Together

Before starting on your final search for images and music, I would like you to take a moment to complete a survey for our guidance department.  You may or may not remember taking a survey earlier in the year.  Our wonderful school climate committee used the results to help develop some of the things that have been happening in our school over the past few months.  We would like to ask you to take this survey again so the data can be re-examined.  This is a great example of how using forms and surveys can help get information, provide opportunities for change, and then how taking another look at new data can help determine if changes have been helpful.  Please take the "Student Feelings Survey."   Once you have finished be sure to submit your answers and then close out of the survey.
Okay.....now you are ready to move on to the task at hand for today!  You should have found, saved, and cited all of your images for your digital story.  If you have not, please get it done quickly.  You will then need to move on to finding, saving, and citing your music.  My last post (Checking Out) has some music sites for you to look at.  If you find a song and would like to edit it, you have "Adobe Soundbooth" on your desktops which will allow you to do this.  Remember to save your edited music or originally downloaded music as MP3 files.  Put these on your pdrive.
Now you will want to "organize" your photos in your web album in Picasa.  On the far right you will see the "organize" tab.  You can just drag and drop the pictures in to the correct order.
Once you have organized them, drop down the "Actions" tab and select "Make a Movie."  This is the last option.  A window will pop up and your want to select, "Launch Application."  You may be asked to log in to Google again.  Please do so.  You will then be brought to the desktop version of Picasa.  Give you images a few moments to download.  The more images you have, the longer this will take.
You should now be in Movie Maker.  Look around and check out the options.  You may want to start by adding your text slides and arranging again.  Don't forget to add a "credit' slide at the end of your story with all of the citations for your images and music!!!There is a "help" tab, so use it when you have a question.
You will want to take some time working on the timing of your images with your music.
Have fun and don't be afraid!!!!  You can't break anything. You have all of your images and URL's just in case.
**Okay so we all know technology can be a little bit frustrating at times.  We have learned some things during class using Picasa Movie Maker.  Occasionally all of the pictures won't download in to your movie.  We have tried, unsuccessfully, to follow the help menu directions to add photos.
***If you would like to use Windows Movie Maker instead, you may do so.  You will find WMM by going to "all programs" in the start menu.  Please be sure to "save as" to your pdrive and name the file.  You will need to download your photos to be able to import them in to your WMM project.  I have left some instructions to do this easily.  Please be patient.  I will help you with this during class 2 if you are having difficulty!!
You  have until May 31st to finish this project.
**If you should get frustrated or confused on Tuesday or Wednesday when I am not there, please take a break and work on your blog.  You have been given feedback from me and there are some things you should fix.  It would also be great to hear from you again....another post!!!  So you have plenty to do.
You should NOT be listening to music other than the song you are selecting/editing for your story, and you should definitely NOT be playing any kind of games!!!!  You have a lot to do to get this digital story in ship shape by the 31st!!!