Godspell Advertisement

Godspell is currently showing in Missoula, and I decided to do a podcast promoting our performance. It's over a minute because of the video length, and I was afraid to make the video shorter and totally ruin it. ;.) I used Garageband on my Mac, and although I've used Garageband several times before, I've never used the Podcast application. I ended up having to upload my movie to Youtube and link it to this post because the podcast did not want to link up directly.

This lesson was challenging. I chose to put together a Peer Editing lesson that I thought would be pretty brief. As it turns out, the video is over five minutes long and I didn't even get close to finishing the lesson. A lot of it had to do with the fact that we couldn't get the interwrite board to act properly. I've never used this board before, and I was lucky enough to have a teacher in my building devote her entire 90 minute study hall to helping me get my lesson launched and recorded. I planned and created my lesson over the entire week, only to get in her classroom and have the software not work. So, during that 90 min. time frame I created a power point for the lesson, transferred it to a flash drive, loaded it on the teacher computer, and then tried to get the board to work with the power point. Every time I tried to write on the board it would ask me to save changes and then everything would disappear. The study hall students were very obliging and patient and a couple of them helped by answering questions and using my ipad to record.
Once I had the lesson recorded, I had to figure out how to transfer files from my ipad (ended up mailing them in little pieces to myself), and then it took me another hour to find a program that would open the file so I could edit it. Imovie finally allowed me to edit my work and what you see on the youtube channel is the final results of my inept efforts.
While this was another challenging and sometimes frustrating assignment, I can really see the benefits of using these tools in the classroom...provided all of the software, internet connections, etc. are working.