Week7

__**Others' Blogs**__

I provided some resources on GPS to Leah after I read her [|June 11th blog] If I can re do my ICT presentation again, I should include a GPS test run session outside of the classroom.. It can be quite difficult for fellow educators and students to learn to use the device just through a short presentation.

I made another encouragement comment on [|Curtis's blog]. Though my comment cannot be considered as part of an ongling discussion, I believe that this form of encouragement comment is also for nurturing a healthy community within a classroom too.

Generally speaking, there are less updates in blogs this week. The busy schedule seems to keep everyone from blogging.

__**Delicious** **- Yum Yum**__
 * Common Craft videos: teacher's bestfriend: []. I can foresee myself using it heavily.
 * I started to follow blog [] regularly for technological news for Educators. Its article on [|"literature-map..."] leads me to this great utility that users to find authors who relate to selected author: []. Authors are linked together according to their writing style, their genre and the readers' feedback.
 * Found these two GPS-based Lesson Plan resources for Leah: [] and []

__**My Video Creation**__

I created my first YouTube video with Movie Maker this week. Personally, I think Movie Maker is usable, but it is not stable and user friendly. It crashed several times when I was using it. I had trouble saving my narration for my digital story and needed to restart the application several times. Unlike iMovie, which put everything in the iMovie project file. Audio files are saved separately in Movie Maker, allowing users to reuse them for other project. I personally find it harder to the multimedia files used in my Movie Maker project.

The second technology that I used in my video creation is YouTube. After spending many years watching YouTube videos, I am finally uploading a video to this popular video sharing network. I realized that I could add a new dimension to my story by adding annotation to my video.

Anyway, below is my creation:

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