Jessica Peresta ETEC 5213: Designing Ed Media

Lesson Planning with Google Drive Screencast Storyboard for the Screencast  You can access the document in Word here . Audience Describe the target population that will view/use the screen cast? Description/Objective Describe what the screen cast to accomplish? The target population that will use this screen cast is elementary music teachers. These are teachers who work with students from K-5th grades and are looking for ways to make the lesson planning process more seamless. Elementary music teachers teach multiple grade levels. It can be overwhelming trying to keep up with the various lesson plans and resources they need. So, this screen cast will share with these teachers how to use Google Drive by creating folders, adding Google docs, and slides into their drive. Introduction Screen Number 1 Audio: On Screen: P...

  Listen to the Podcast Episode Podcast Title and Presenter One of the Best Elementary Music Education Apps by Jessica Peresta Podcast Outline Introduction Hello, I’m Jessica Peresta. the host of the Teaching with Tech in K12 podcast and you’re listening to episode 3 . Today I’ ll be talking about one of the best elementary music education apps available. This app is called “My Singing Monsters” and can be used with your 1st-3rd grade music students . Finding technology resources that can be used both at school and at home, while also being able to be accessed from any device can be tricky. But, the “My Singing Monsters” app is able to do this while making learning music fun and relevant for your students. Topic # 1- What is My Singing Monsters My Singing Monsters is an app that can be used in any elementary music classroom. It’s a great tool to use in the classroom, for asynchronous or synchronous learning, or even for the students to practice musical concepts from ho...

 I edited a photo using Adobe Lightroom.   The Before or Unedited Photo The After or Edited Photo Light and Color The original photo had the people on the computer screen as the focal point.  Everything around it was blurred out a bit and darker.  I decided to lighten up the entire picture a bit.  So, here are the settings I changed on my picture: Exposure +.65 Contrast -.19 Highlights -.3 Shadows +.26 Whites -.3 Blacks -.3 The biggest struggle I faced was learning the different light setting like exposure, contrast, and whites, for example, and knowing how to best use them.  I decided to choose the auto setting, and then changed things just a bit from the suggestions provided.  It took a bit of practice on my part and playing around with the adjusters while moving them from left to right to get the picture the way I wanted it.  Crop and Rotate I use a lot of photos on Instagram, so I decided to go with the 1x1 option.  After the square ...

  Description of the Project This week, I worked on creating a resume by using CSS3 Style Sheets and HTML5 Pages.  The past few weeks, I've learned how to do each of these separately, but haven't combined them into one project.   The goal of the assignment was for me to be able to apply what I've learned by using two different styles of coding.  Not only was I instructed to create a resume with different headings, I had to change the color, font, and indentation throughout the document as well. I also added an image to the header of the resume as well.  What Obstacles I Encountered The first obstacle I encountered was trying to figure out how to center an image using the CSS3 Style Sheet.  Normally, I will just choose the "center" option in a Word or Google document, but knowing how to use code to do this took me a bit of time.  I also encountered a problem when trying to change the colors of the h1 and h2 headings.  It seemed that no matter ...

  Description of the Project For this project, I created an event using HTML and a CSS3 Box Model.  I was able to use any event, so I chose to create a party invite to watch a Razorback football game together with friends.  The CSS3 Box Model allowed me to create an invitation that had a specific background color, the font I wanted, and the border color and sizing that I needed. Since I had created a webpage using HTML during a previous assignment, I referred to the other coding I had used and referred back to the videos and readings that Dr. Mears had provided us from LinkedIn Learning and W3 Schools.   What Obstacles I Encountered Since I've only used HTML a couple of times, it is still a learning curve for me.  I feel like I struggle with knowing when to leave spaces between characters and when I don't need to. But also, while using CSS, there is also the { symbol to use now and it is on it's own line of code. The other obstacle I faced was knowing what ...

Description of the Project This week, I was instructed to design a webpage only using HTML.  While going through the lesson, I learned how to code for headings, paragraphs, images, email addresses, websites, and how to change the color on words or backgrounds.   I was provided courses to help guide my instruction on LinkedIn Learning and guided practice through the W3 Schools site.  The goal is for my classmates and I to be able to understand the basics of coding and using HTML in case we're in a setting where we need to know how to use it.   What Obstacles I Encountered While creating my webpage through HTML, I encountered some obstacles.  The first issue I faced was the fact that I have a limited knowledge of using HTML.  Although I own my own website and blog regularly, I rarely use the HTML features.   Another obstacle I dealt with was knowing what code to type and how much space to leave between lines.  While creating my HTML w...