Dienstag, 29. April 2008

YouTube Video #3

Princess Hours Promo - If We Fall In Love

This group of "couples" have all nice voices. I like how their expressions are while they sing because it kind of shows what the song is about and the show that they are promoting. It's great how not only one "couple" sing one whole song, but other "couples" come in and joins them singing.

YouTube Video #2

UpSpeed Lesson Unlearned Dance

I think this video is really awesome because this dance group, who are my friends, are very unique. They all can dance really well and they are all at the same time. They really have great moves and their dance is just not based on one song but remixed. Their songs are more with rhythm and beat. I love how they add some actions in their dance. I don't say all these things just because they are my friends.

YouTube or DuTube Video #1

Star King #48 - Charice Pempengco Encore Performance (en)

I like this video because the girl can sing very good. She has a nice voice quality and good performance when she is on stage. Even though she is short (of course she's a filipina:D) she has a big voice when it comes to singing. I am proud that she is from the Philippines!!!!xD The Korean singer was also good.

Photo Essay

1. What things did you like about the Photo Essays you watched? Why?

What I liked about the Photo Essays were the song choices because it went well with their topic
and the pictures came according to the beat or rhythm to the song. The pictures were all very
interesting and it was easy to understand what the story was about without using words.

2. What things did you not like about the Photo Essays you watched? Why?

What I didn't like was when I saw some blurry pictures from our Photo Essay and from others
because the pictures were harder to see. I also didn't like it when there was a picture for like 7
seconds or longer because they wanted it to go along with the rhythm and it gets boring if a
have to look at a picture for more than 7 seconds.

3. If you were to revise your own Photo Essay, what would you do differently?

I would try and look for a better background music that would really go well with the story
and maybe choose a different topic or story.

4. Was it hard to tell a story using only pictures and music? Explain.

It was not hard for us to tell a story with only pictures and music for our topic because the
pictures were easy to understand what was going on and what it was about. It might be harder
depending on what topic or storying you are doing since our story was about the life of a
it was very easy to take picture of students at school, which would be easy to understand .

Sonntag, 2. März 2008

Assignment #5: How to improve PowerPoint

Article: Los Angeles Times- Making a (Power) Point of Not Being Tiresome
Notes:
1.) It is a bad idea to do all the reading from each slide.

2.) It is good to be organiyed

3.) Focusing on the message is a good idea.

4.) Drawing sketches out of diagram of how the action will develop during a presentation.

5.) Just keep simple images and a little amounts of infromations.

6.) Arrange points in discret sections or acts, so the audience can digest one concept at a time.

7.) Summariye crisis like the climax and the conclusion of the message you're trying to give.

8.) Visual imagery helps people to pay attention and remember it.

Freitag, 29. Februar 2008

Assignment #4:

Article #1: The sound of One room Napping








Article #2: A broken PowerPoint Culture










Article #3: Bullet Points Kill

Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2008

Assignment #3

I think Powerpoin depends on how people use it well because there are some people that are really good by using the Powerpoint, but thee are some that can not use it that well. PowerPoint can be useful in some ways, but can also be not so useful in some way depending on the person doing the presentation on how well he/she does the powerpoint. But if I was doing a presentation with the Powerpoint, I would keep informations in bullet points, but for each bullet points I would talk more about it by expaoining it, so that the people that are listening to me would have a clear understanding of the subject. What I would change during presentations or using the powerpoint are by not just reading what it says on the powerpoin, but instead say it in my own words with more explanation than what it says on the slide and make the powerpoint just simple and nothing that would make my audience get distrcated. For example, not too many animations or sound effects because that easily gets their attention. If I was teaching a class I would probably use powerpoint or some kind of program to help teach to my class to keep my teachings very organize and legable for my students because if I would just us the whiteboard to teach the students, they will have a hard time reading my handwriting. My powerpoint will be very simple but interesting at the same time, and very easy for my students to understand. For each topic I would probably add pictures to make it even easier and get my students to see what I am talking about. If I would not use Poerepoint my class would probably get totally bored and get really confused of what I am talking about. By using the powerpoin I would put only the main ideas or infrmation that I want my class to know and just get to the point of what I want them to know. But I would not just read to them whatever it says on my slides, I would explain it to them what I mean because they can read too.