Apple iMove

I love this software. I was given an opportunity to produce a short commercial on this software and loved it.
After being told I had to use it I was a bit disappointed because I was used to using adobe premier and Nero Vision to produce movies. Well after my experience, I would be happy staying with iMovie.
Ok, I can’t say using iMovie eliminates the need for Adobe Premier though. The differences between the two are that with iMovie you can whip up a professional looking movie in minutes and to do the same project in Premier, you could take hours. But, you’re not able to do a fraction of tasks on iMovie that you can do in Premier. Not that it matters though for the average user because iMovie has tons of audio and video effects/samples worth bragging about. Some of my favorite effects are: 3d screen credits, tons of useful sound files a 3d video scene changes.
These effects are great and all, but I think the most useful part if the iMovie program is the user interface. I found it very easy to manipulate all of the files and effects I added to my project. With only a few clicks I could cut scenes and apply/alter effect to my content. I also like that I only had to mess around with the program for a few minutes before I felt competent enough to produce efficiently.
After capturing enough video for the commercial and copying it to the computer. I only needed about 2 hours to produce the following commercial using iMovie. The sentiment to iMovie is that I did this commercial after only using iMovie for the first time ever.
And so, without further ado!
Dueling Cameras!

Media Literacy, Eight Guildelines for Teachers

I read this article about the importance of media literacy by Jason Ohler and would like to comment on it. The article uses 8 point to stress the importance of how media incorporated instruction provides for a more quality based education in the classroom. I could not agree more. As a personal testament I can say that the success of some of my courses in college would not have been possible had it not been for media support.
Many times I was able to use pictures and programming to express what I could not have otherwise said on paper. As Jason says over a few of his points, it is great to be able to engage my target audience into my essay or presentation be utilizing different types of media aids. In face I can’t think of an example where media would not be a benefit to its presentation. Even the most simplest of subjects that is to be written on paper could use the aid of the World Wide Web to make it more available to its audience.
As much of the article points out, I think that treating media literacy as a conditional additive or elective course is a mistake. Students should be given an education that promotes media expression and provides media rich instruction and order for this to happen I think the teachers in today’s classrooms should make use of the internet, music, video, etc... to enhance learning in the classroom.

My new website!!!

Ok. So this was a huge project for me. Not sure it meets grading standards for my class but I have the framework done, and lemme tellya. I spent tooooo many hours on this site. But hey, a box of lemon heads several sodas and a bag of chips and salsa later I am able to present to you my greatest web creation. MATH UNIVERSE!!
You can check it out here:

Math Universe

Now I know what your thinkin, "there's now way he came up with that on his own!"
Well I can assure you folks the design was pure organic cognitive brilliance by yours truly. Granted I started with a 3 column template in Dreamweaver. But believe me, it began with only 2 vertical lines and a whole lotta nonsense text. From there I spent huge chunks of eye torturous hours learning how to use css style sheets and tags in and html rich framework. I painstakingly discovered how fussy sub-sub-containers can be when you ask them to stretch 100% of the remaining space allotted from the user, while keeping a 15 pixel border and 1 in padded region. Well anyhoo welcome to my creation, The Math Universe.