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New School Year

Welcome to my blog! This year I have IT with Mr. Chritadoulou.
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Evaluation

At the beggining of the project I was really excited about using Voice Thread, but that excitement faded lesson by lesson. Voice Thread is the most frustrating program that I have ever used. Every time you make a mistake by clicking on save when you did not want that voice, you have to start the entire thread again!!! That is once you have loaded all of the pictures which took me over 35min. Then when it came time to embed the Voice Thread onto my blog my Voice Thread account wouldnt open, so I was never able to open my voice thread to embed it onto my blog. Luckily though I had written out my script on my blog before hand and it also had the pictures so I just had to give a normal oral presentation. Animoto though was Amazing from start to finish. it was efficient, fun, easy to use and produced a quality presentation... So I highly recomend animoto to anyone and everyone. But Voice thread however I would encourage people not to use if they can help it!!! I think that I would recomend this project to other students but only if the school was really considering using their technology. This is because all of the Technologies I knew about except the 100$ laptop, so I enjoyed the project except for the voice thread

My Voice Thread

All of this is why I think that we should have Macbook Airs' at School, I hope you learned something.

Here you can see the Macbook Airs' flip down door which is home to its USB, DVI ports and Head phone Jack.

Some of the programs that the Macbook Air has to offer are ilife, itunes, iphoto, ichat, isight, imovie and ioffice.

I think that the students at Qatar Academy should have Macbook Air's because obviously they are ultra portable, so instead of lugging around a 5+ pound laptop. You have a mere three pounds to carry around. You can also benefit alot from everything that Mac has to offer. +

Here we have a picture of the Airs' Keyboard. As Mac describes it the "keys are crispy to the touch." This full size keyboard is the same as the Macbook but this time apple took another step and the Air's Keys are individually illuminated so that you can still work comfortably without any trouble. You may think that apple has cut some of Macs' luxuries but the keyboard on the air is still a full size.

The Air has an over sized multi touch Touch pad which makes it easier and easier to use.

The Macbook Air weighs a mere 3 pounds and is still better than so many other notebooks. The Air Boasts a 13.3in. LED Display screen, which has ambient sensors, which adjust the brightness according to where you are for the best visibility possible. The Air is 12.74in. in length and .76in. in width, while closed.

Here you can see a picture of the Macbook Air, the world's thinnest notebook, the Macbook Air. I chose the Air for my New Technology project.

An extra lesson....

Today since most of the class werent able to emmbed their voice threads and animoto Mrs. Lindsay gave us an extra lesson for our new technology project. I am really glad that this has happend because I wasnt able to emmbed by Voice Thread onto my blog because my, along with many other people account wouldnt load. I am also really glad because someone from another 6th grade class saw me working on my project and they asked me if I wanted to borrow his Macbook Air for my presentation. Unfortuntley this only happened today, so if we had had to do our presentations today it wouldnt have worked. So hopefully I can get the Macbook Air for the presentation. I think that would really improve my presentation because then people would really be able to appreciate how thin and light it is. Not to mention how much it would help us in class. I have a little bit of work to do because I will have to emmbed my Voice Thread into my blog before next lesson....

Animoto!:)

Animoto is a great, easy and fun way to create a very attractive multi purpose presentation. i am going to use animoto for as many things as I can, now that I know how to use. But I would really like to be able to make a longer video for free!! Looking forward to making a new one sooon!

My Animoto

My Animoto about the all new Macbook Air!!! The world's thinnest notebook made by none other than AppleMac.