I used movie maker to create a movie of the 5th grade students at camp.  I can’t post that one because of media release issues, but I did do another smaller one of my own children to send to my husband (who is gone a couple weeks at a time). 5-20-09-end-of-year-picnic.WMV Before I figured out Movie Maker I used Microsoft Power Point.  I had difficulties adding a video clip from my file to the power point, it was easier in Movie Maker.

I have used Power Point for presentations in the classroom, but not Movie Maker.  What have others done to incorporate these multimedia presentation formats into their classes?

My goal for this summer is to learn several new (to me) technology tools. Hopefully I will be able to incorporate one or two of them into my 5th grade classroom.  I started with the MP3 player last week, mostly because I wanted to learn it for myself, not my class. However, I have heard of using the voice recording to help reading fluency, but that is another blog altogether.

I wanted to download music and an audible book. I learned alot about different audio files by failure, but two MP3 players later (because the first super cheap one wasn’t compatible with audible.com), I think I have the basic ideas down. 

Is there really any free music out there? What is a torrent file, anyway?  What purpose could an MP3 or Ipod have in the classroom (besides the headphones, that my students used for laptops this past year)?

Next up: movie maker.