EDLD 5362 Informational Systems Management Week 5

Golden Rule Technology Plan 2010-2011

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EDLD 5366 Digital Graphics. 5th Week Reflection.

Self-Assessment

During this course I gained another perspective in how important are some elements of design are in the teaching field, the communication with the community that people should start creating their self-brand since their early years and all they do in social networks could impact positively or negatively in their lives (Utech, 2010).

The new information that I get in this course helped me to expand my knowledge and go deeper in my understanding. I found that the design of the logo was a structured task and is not just art or inspiration. I had some concepts about animation from my experience with Macromedia Flash, but using scratch was very productive because I learned a different way to make animations. At this moment I cannot say which is better. I think that both have different features and we can use the software that we feel more comfortable to work with.

I think that my personal experiences were a good asset in my understanding and affected positively in how I developed my assignments, but definitely I leaned not just to say that something is looking good at a glance, because we need to open our eyes to see the Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and the Proximity. (Yearwood, 2010).

Learn as learner

My strategies for doing my assignments are first read what we need to complete the assignment and see what information is in the readings. At the same time, I try to recall my past experiences and my current job and find the relationship between them.

I think that trying to evaluate or assess your own work is one of the hardest tasks. When you evaluate others’ work you just need to compare if parameters match the established criteria. If the work matches your criteria it is right. However, when you do a work, certain traits or your personality is embedded into the criteria and your can make a bias opinion. It was too difficult for me to design my own logo, and for this reason I asked for opinion from other people in how do I look like for them.

The discussion forums, web conferences, wiki and blog interactions were very resources for my because some time my ideas fluid suddenly in my mind and it help me to organize my thoughts and to develop ideas in different perspectives or even a deeper way.

Lifelong Learning Skills

All that I have learned in this course impacts in my professional development, because I have gained more understanding in how a logo can show what I am: my convictions, my activities and some traits of my personality. I interact with colleagues and the community. For this reason, the directives in how we can communicate throughout the newsletter can be used in general when we send letters home.

The interactions and collaboration with my colleagues is a summative action of knowledge because every classroom and every school face different challenges. For instance, comments from some colleagues leaded our school to invest in Eduphoria to help instruction and testing.

For future research I would like to investigate more on what are the best accommodations for students with special needs students with special needs. Because, I have seen that there are some learning gaps created for language barrier more than learning disabilities and to support English language learners, classrooms and schools must provide many avenues for exploring, learning, and practicing reading, writing, speaking, and listening (NREL, 2010). For instance in third grade were four student that initially they get less than 20 in their math and reading test, they are Spanish speakers but they do not have necessarily a learning disability. White some accommodations for their language they improved for over 70s.

References:
Utech, J. (2010). Creating your personal brand. Retrieved from http://www.thethinkingstick.com/creating-your-personal-brand

Yearwood , J. (2010). Desing Principles. Lamar University.

Northeast Regional Educational Laboratory. (n.d). Meeting the needs of diverse learners. Retrieved from http://www.netc.org/earlyconnections/pub/sec3.pdf

Scratch Animation

EDLD 5366 Digital Graphics - ET8023 -L20262347

This is the Week 3 assignment.

It was made with Scratch 1.4.

It shows the emotion of the Basketball game. I am using two customes, background and sound. I also manipulate the movements with the motion and control features.

You can visit my scratch project at: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/jgallardo/1461326

Week 1. Reflection. EDLD 5366 Digital Graphics - ET8023

Reflection. Assignment 1.2.

My fist impression is that the author(s) of this book is have a strong knowledge in how develop a work to communicate the message. Probably the tools could be incipient, but how they apply the principles, surprised me.

I can see that the author of this magnificent book make use of the patterns in a good way making the pages more attractive. They have frames with a certain pattern, showing repetition. Even when I am not able to understand the text, I can how the contrast is manipulated in the colors red and black.

In the first picture where the man is receiving the message from the Lord, the image is aligned in the center and the text on top is centered to, making the image vertically balanced. Also, this image has repetition in colors blue, orange, red and yellow.

Most of the text shows repetition in the layout of two columns of text.

In general the pictures with characters have repetition in the patterns that shows a background and

The author shows that manipulate the alignment, because the text is balanced and when it has elements, they are at both sides. The images also have elements that are mainly centered (alignment).

The text has repetition in black and red throughout the book.

The proximity of the text with some of the images, that sometimes appears on top, to the right, on bottom, to the left shows that this text is an explanation of the drawing or related to the characters. Sometimes these remarks inside the drawing, close to the characters. So, I think that it is related with the people that appear there.

The technique that the author(s) used was using drawings that helped to understand better the texts in order to transmit the message. Apparently it was ink over some kind of paper and the whole work is very valuable from the hardcover to the inside. The four elements were applied throughout the book.

Manuscript/Book URL

http://ttpdownload.bl.uk/app_files/silverlight/default.html?id=316a6f8f-ef1b-4d9b-9c46-90084fcb2bc8

Title of Manuscript/Book

Bible from Ethiopia

Week 5 Assignment: PSA Post-Production

Week 5 Assignment: PSA Post-Production

During this course I have worked in an excellent team integrated by Michelle Pittman, Christine Maier, Timothy Stanfield, Lucinda Gallegos and me. The name of the PSA is An Oasis of Technology. Michelle headed the group from the different stages. She provides the narration used for the work.

Based on the original script that was revised during the 3 and 4 weeks we provide the still shots and videos needed. One important step for this process was to obtain the permission from parents to get the shot of the students. Some voice edition and music was selected taking into account the respect of the copyrights.

The interaction between the team members was through the email, group wiki and skype, depending of the activities that we have to do. We share our part of the work in the wiki space to integrate the work and we met in skype when we have to take decisions and voted for the best work that finally released in our wiki space and youtube.

Credits and copyright information was provided in the PSA itself and in our pre-production document. I think that one way of improve our PSA is release it to the public and make them comments and suggestions about it.

EDLD 5363 Week 5. PSA Reflection

Public Service Announcement (PSA) Reflection.





Course Reflection

I envisioned that I would learn some techniques in order to be capable to integrate different elements, still images, voice, music and videos. I think that I have achieved those outcomes because I have experienced the steps that are used from the beginning of the project making the first proposal and the narration script and finally the copyright documentation. I can say that my envisioned outcomes aligned with those that I have reached with this course and the final product (PSA) proves it.

The outcomes that we set from the beginning of the course have been relevant because as administrators and teachers we are able to produce materials for our colleagues, parents or the educational community in general. We can know more about credits and copyrights. Of course, the produced materials will have better quality and a appropriate structure. In addition, as administrators we can supervise other in the production of a multimedia product.

We cannot say that there are any outcomes we did not achieved. But, I think that I would like have learned more about all the features that Adobe Premiere has. I think that the lack of time was a factor that prevent me of master this program. However, I think that I learned the fundamentals or the software in terms of sound, pictures and video integration and the manipulation of transition. Definitely, I can improve my skills if I continue practicing it.

I completed all assignments successfully. I think that we have enough time to read the materials see the videos. On the other hand, I think that I need more time to go deep in the knowledge of editing software. In this final part, the used progressive refinement throughout the course, in order to finish the work by the fifth week.

My first thought that making a video was going to be hard because I have never used this kind of software for edition. I can see that I am a team worker because we reach a certain degree of integration working as a team during the PSA production (the members played different roles and we communicate adequately by skype or email). In general, my attitude was of cooperation and integration as a team. In general, all the members have had this attitude, as well.

Week 4 EDLD 5363 Multimedia and Video Technology

In this 4th week of the EDLD 5363 Multimedia and Video Technology I think that it was a great experience to work with Lucinda Gallegos, Christine Maier, Michelle Pittman, and Timothy Stanfield. All of us have a busy time, but we take our time to meet in skype sometimes.
We have posted in the team blog still shots, the narration and video and we continue tuning up our work.

We will announce soon our final work in this blog.