Sharing Projects.

I was very suprised how different my project was from everyone else's. All of the website and lesson variations gave me wonderful ideas, but I hope mine wasn't too different. Regardless, I really do think students would enjoy doing something similar. Writing the poem itself took awhile, as did adjusting the audio (I used several programs to make the audio louder). I hope that everyone could hear it okay. Jenn has already posted on my project in the previous post and she seemed to be able to hear it, which was exciting. Overall, I think the outcome of my project went well. One thing Jenn mentioned that I just wanted to clarify... the paintings of individuals were all closeups of individuals within one painting that I showed in the beginning and end of the project. I thought that would capture each person's perspective more. Originally I had wanted to have the whole poem at the end as well, and perhaps I should have. Anyways, thanks for all the wonderful ideas to everyone, some of you I will be talking to while student teaching, if not, this class has been a lot of fun... Good luck in the future!!

Project!!

I am so very excited about the progress of my project now. I redid the poem... it's entitled "Tonight" and I had everyone in my house read a stanza from the different perspectives. First, I was suprised by what a good job they did, better than I am with a microphone, but now I find it funnier how serious they all seem.--My family is anything but serious! Regardless, I'm going to piece it all together on the MAC tomorrow and I should be able to play it on either PC or Mac. I just hope that the audio shows up!!!!! My biggest worry is that it will be difficult to hear on the speakers in class like my IMovie was. I'm not sure if it will be dependent on audio or if the lyrics will be present with the pictures, we will have to see.

Reflecting on Final Project progress

Originally I had planned to use an old poem that I wrote, which I was pretty proud of, in collaboration with my project. Because I no longer have a copy, however, I tried to recreate (or just create) a new piece that goes along with the painting. After reading the poem now, I have decided I don't really like it. Of course I am my worst crittic, but I'm going to redo it again until I'm halfway satisfied. Hoping that some creativity will arrise and my writer's block will go away so that I can resumer working on the other parts of the project.