Collegues help with success

Colleagues help with success

This week, I created a Power Point presentation with the help of teacher colleagues. Regina Stimson and I were to present our unit at The Walters Art Museum. We met on Saturday and reviewed all of the digital still photos and digital videos that I have taken throughout our unit. We discussed what the final product would look like and selected the images we liked. I started putting the video and photos in as we went along. I could run the video when the CD it was on was in the laptop. When I pulled out the CD, I got still images. Regina and I decided that we would put the CD in with the flashdrive so that it would run. Any images that we needed to insert later, I wrote a note on that slide and moved on.

Later, I tried to make a digital video movie using the same CD. The pieces I selected for this had problems. I was surprised that images that I took with no pauses or cuts, were coming out as if it was cut in several different sections. WHY??? It didn't happen last year with anything I took. Is it because it is a different camera? Anyway, NONE OF THE IMAGES THAT I CAPTURED AND "SAVED" ON MY FLASH DRIVE STAYED!!!!! There were big red "X's" in the space. I thought about what I did last year to prevent this from happening. I think what I did was move the video selections to the desktop and then I did the movie. I was planning to do this next.

Then I talked to Mr. Tanner about it and discussed my ideas about putting stuff on the desktop. He suggested that I copy the video selections to the flashdrive. I experimented with a video on a new slide and found that this worked for the Power Point quite well. I then went through and deleted, then reinserted video. Mr. Tanner helped also by scanning images onto a desktop on a computer. I was able to take those images and easily insert them into the Power Point. I was even tinkering with words and added a new slide taking images off The Walters site about two hours before we were to present.

Last night, Regina and I went to The Walters. We were FABULOUS!!! (Even though I had to lay on the floor to click and talk so people could see it.)
I sent out a list of very nice sites related to Lincoln from EDUHOUND. I hope at least one teacher will check it out.

1/8/2009BauernschubMary Beth