In my screencast I showed how to import sound and make your sprite do a body twist in scratch. I found this project to be very neat. This would be a great way to show my students how do things visually instead of me just telling them what to do.
For my final scratch project I added stuff to my scratch 2 project. I added sound and changed some of the words about the story it tells. My scratch project involves moving and talking of sprites, it has different costumes for a sprite, and it tells a story. I have 3 sprites and 4 backgrounds. I tried to get everything right on timing so they story flowed well. The more time I use scratch the more I learn about it and the more stuff I can do.
A Pecha Kucha is an oral presentation that consists of 20 slides. Each slide is 20 seconds making the presentation 6 minutes and 40 seconds long. Pecha Kucha can be over any topic of your interest. Each slide needs to be full size visual images over your topic, and they need to capture your audience. An outstanding Pecha Kucha is one that grabs the audience’s attention, it needs to flow well, and have high quality photos that is relevant to your topic.
I have never heard of a Pecha Kucha before. When we were assigned to do this presentation I was nervous because I do not like speaking in front of people. This PowerPoint presentation is different from any other PowerPoint that I have done. Most PowerPoint’s I have done have bullets and writing on the slides. I found this project really neat, because as you are presenting your topic the audience gets a visual image of what you are talking about instead of reading words right off of a PowerPoint with information about your topic.
Even though I am teaching 1st grade students I still think having Pecha Kuchas are great. I know that 1st graders will more than likely not be able to put together their own Pecha Kucha, but I could do one over a story that we have read or history stuff that I have taught (ex. Lakes, rivers, mountains etc). I would pull up the Pecha Kucha and for each slide I could designate a student to tell us about what the picture is about. This could help them remember what a story is about or what a lake or a river is and where they could be found.
Our gorup members, Courtney Sutton, Chris Gillis, Andy Adams and Michael Garvie, interviewed students asking them questions about stress. We chose the thematic category of stress. The interviews went very well and the subjects were very willing to talk to us. Most of the main things causing stress to college students are grades, money and time managment. The way they reduced there stress was voluntering, working out and the hanging out with friends. The general consensus of coping with stress from college students was drugs and alcohol.
My second scratch project, going to the movies, took me a lot longer than I expected. I used three sprites, and four different backgrounds. I had a hard time figuring scratch out at first, but the more I work on it and got to know what each thing is for the easier it got. A lot of things are still difficult for me, but I learn more and more each time I get on it. This scratch project I had to learn how to time everything just right. There are a few things that are not right on timing, but I tried the best I could. I had to figure out how to make the sprites talk and time it just right so they did not talk at the same time. For each person to talk I had to put a wait (however many seconds) to give the next person time to talk. Also, after the boy walks across to the girls I had to try and time it right to where they all disappeared close to the same time, making the girls wait to disappear when the boy walks over to them.e.
