Jessica Peresta ETEC 5213: Designing Ed Media

  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 ...