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This assignment was difficult.  I had opted to use a site called questgarden to build my webquest.  It took many times of doing the quest over and over.  My brain refused to remind me to save the page.  Once you made changes, if you moved to another page, your changes would disappear…..Poof gone.  You had to remember to go to the very bottom of the page and click on the mini size button that said save.  Very frustrating.  I was also not able to find a way to link the URL’s for the websites I wanted everyone to go to underneath the pictures so you could just click on the pictures.  I think I would try a different web site to make a webquest in the future.  Here is the link if you want to look at it.

http://questgarden.com/201/06/7/181122172408/

After two weeks of struggling, I was finally able to make a three minute video for a social studies class.  The end result of using free software is having music that does not match the slides and photos you are presenting.  The absolute best part of the final product is the banner across the entire three and a half minutes of the video to shamelessly advertise the free trial version of the software I used.  Heavy sigh.

If I were teaching social studies I think I would be inclined to make some videos with good software that I might be able to show every year on relevant issues.  It would be a great way to spend time over the summer preparing for a new year.  I would of course break down and actually purchase software.   Here is my project.  Enjoy and try not to laugh at the banner…

https://youtu.be/Vqe9Ex1xw5U

 

Over the last two weeks I attempted to use Prezi to show a comparison between three different presentation sites.  (Slideshare, Prezi and Voicepress).  It was a disappointing process as the sites were not as versatile as you might think without upgrading to better versions.  (The free sites are good, but to get the most out of the programs you really need to upgrade).  There are so many tutorials on line it was difficult to find time to look at all the options.  Overall I did like that the sites could be used for students to compile reports in a more creative fashion with videos and pictures.  Attached is the link to see my work.

https://prezi.com/dashboard/next/#/details/ewhvqxwodgg5/