What happens when a Google Certified Teacher takes a job behind the Great Fire Wall? I thought the answer to this would become less ambiguous after a few months in China, but surprisingly the answer's still not so clear. What is definitive is that the blogs I've been using for my various classes for more than a few years are now in a Han Solo-cryogenic state of hibernation.

The evidence of tech integration in my previous classes spoke for itself through my students' sharing of work, ideas, and products. Now, so much of the publishing stage of their work is on internal servers, that I feel the need to document this somewhere. So if in effort to share some of the potentially cool, and not so cool, things going on in my classes, I'll be using this blog (recycled grade 12 site) as a platform of productivity, a professional page, a pyt of a pln, and all sorts of sordid alliteration.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

My name is Troy White, and I have Adult Attention Disor... 



I do get easily distracted when grading. I also have a history of mashing students' orals with some sort of silly tunes. In a recent IOC prep marking marathon, I got antsy and had to take an extended break and make these two. And no, I did not spend hours on them. And yes, there is a lot of potential integration to be had with these as far as future assignments go. They incorporate a lot of business...
1) Using iShowu "borrowed" a few tracks from the interwebs
 - When you set the recording to "system" it will grab the audio of anything playing
 - open up the screen casting in Any Video Converter and convert to mp3 
2) Garageband 
   a) import student oral 
   b) add a few effects to the audio (the kids might call it autotune) 
     - amplifier (British Clean), Voice wa, Theatre, etc. There are a ton of 3 minute tutorials on this 
  c) import borrowed track d) cut up both student oral and track - can't really go wrong here... 
  e) Export my track as Mp3
3) Photoshop - Find a decent Joseph Conrad image from the web a) and one of a dude named Skillet?      
    b) some blonde lady's hair
 ***Note, copying from the web and pasting into Photoshop is very easy with your command+ctrl+shift+4 
 *** good opportunity for students to play with layers and filters 
  c) Export image 
5) Blabberize 
   a) set up image for the mouth moving business 
 6) iShowu again 
  *** set this to "record system audio" 
  a) set the capture parameters to Blabberize 
  b) record the screencast 
  c) Hit play on the song 
7) On the second song, I did not want Joseph's mouth to move the entire time, so I 
   a) first screencasted the Blabberize  while I stated the lyrics 
   b) then aligned the chronology of the Blabberized screencasting to the audio track and 
   c) ONE LAST Screen cast.... it is a little off. 

Voila! I swear this only took a few minutes... 

Awesome bits... 
1) Screencasting + Blabberize 
 a) Poetry recital with author's image 
 b) Parody and focus on diction - Analyze your teachers... use their image, use their language, why are they so repetitive with their catch phrases, etc.?
 c) History - sooo much, autobiographical prior knowledge 
 d) Create a Monologue - characters in context - out of context 

There is something to be done with the mashup audio as well... 
   - Much like a word, cloud they can extract the principal language - inherent themes, key phrases, etc.... just a thought. 

 **FUN - they like the mouth to move... and 
   
***Motivation - lot's of students prefer to be dramatic than expository. When they can be a character, they are less inhibited
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