Saturday, February 26, 2011

My Life


Our final assignment in Intermediate Tech. Apps was to create a project about our lives. This project combined everything we learned in the class into one finished movie. We used PowerPoint/Keynote, Garageband, Word, and iMovie to create our final project. I thought this was a good final assignment because it allowed us to explore the different effects and functions of all of the applications that we used during our time in this class. The use of music, pictures, and slides all compined to make a great assignment. If I were to change anything about this final project, I think I would’ve shortened the amount of slides we had to have.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Music Genome


This project included the use of Microsoft PowerPoint, Garage band, and iMovie. We had to mash up 7 songs and the information about their genre all into one presentation and put it into iMovie. My genre was 80’s Pop . I chose this genre because I listen to a lot of 80’s music, so I know the songs and what characteristics set 80’s pop apart from other pop eras. This project was helpful in giving us the experience of using three different applications for one project. If I could change one thing about the music genre project, I would have made the required number of songs 5 instead of 7.
                                                                


Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Zamzar Conversions


I heard that some people were having problems with converting files on zamzar.com at school, at home, or both. There was one file that I had a problem with while I was converting at home. There were two or three others that had a five to ten minute delay. After a couple minutes of waiting for the email I tried converting the same song again and I got the email within the average waiting period. I had no problems with either of the videos that I converted. For me, zamzar.com really had no problems with the songs that I was converting.