Project #4 blog

The most challenging and frustrating aspect of this project for me was my experience with the pictures I used from the internet. I thought I was being especially careful picking the larger photos in efforts of having nice clear photos for my project, but when I loaded them into iphoto almost all of them were incredibly grainy and pixelated. After being shown the correct way to search for good pictures, i was able to swap a few out, but even some of my replacements came out pixelated. At that point, after over five hours in the computer lab, I finished the project and called it a day. The most rewarding aspect (even through all of the photo frustration) was just how easy the imovie program was to use. It was very self-explanatory, and the drag-and-drop format made for smooth sailing. I'm finding the same with all of the mac applications I come across. If W200 has taught me just one thing, (don't worry... it has taught much more) it has opened my eyes to the world of mac. I really plan to use the imovie program in my classroom, because I feel it reaches students with the audio/video formats, and it gives them a way to learn that's more familiar than lecture.