reflection

Reflection

Throughout this year I have gained a lot of knowledge. Learning these new things helped me understand how to handle a computer better. The first thing we did this semester was blogging. Mr. Bertoia created blogs for us on edublogs. The blogs had a couple technical problems at first, but after a few days of struggling through the website everything settled down, and we were able to use edublogs again. The second thing we learned was how to do a video. We had a tutorial video that we had to make. After we had gone through the process of the tutorial video we had to make our personal video. The project was all about ourselves. We learned how to use the adobe premiere elements. We also learned how to use audacity.

When we finished our personal video we started studying about cyber bullying. We had to make a blog post about it. After we had mastered posting writing posts on edu blogs we had to post a project we were doing in Social studies. That project was about Christopher Columbus. It was actually a want ad for sailors. After we posted our ad we had to make a wordle out of it and post it. Judging from the wordle we could tell which words I needed to edit in my want ad, so I edited my want ad and made a second wordle. When my want ad was well revised I learned about glogster. Glogster is a site where you can create posters. It has really cool applications. Learning about glogster facilitates my work when I have to create a poster. Out of glogster we had to make a poster of our want ad.

After our want ad we started working on a project that we did in science. The project was about the periodic table of elements. We were each given an element and we had to research it. My element was silicon. Out of that project I made another video. I really like making videos. Another project we did that I thought was really fun was Scratch. Scratch is a program where you can animate your creations. We didn’t spend a lot of time on it, but the little time we did spend on it was extremely entertaining.