During our last EDCI 336 class, we explored various tools and apps that might be useful in project organization and for audio and visual editing!

Some of these programs include:

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After seeing and exploring all of these applications I decided to install Padlet as a Chrome extension and give it a try. Since then, I have been using it to help curate and organize my research for my EDCI 250 teacher inquiry, and it has been incredibly helpful! If I find a resource that I like or am interested in, I simply click on the extension and click “Post Here” on my inquiry dashboard and it saves it for later access. Super simple!

 

 

 

Additionally, after seeing PowerPoint being demonstrated in our last class I chose to install Microsoft Office 365, which includes PowerPoint. I purchased a new laptop at the beginning of September, and because it is new it lacks many of the programs that my older computer had accumulated over the years. Thankfully, as a student at UVic, I was able to install Microsoft Office 365 free of charge. I simply went to UVic’s University Systems page for Microsoft Office and followed the steps!

Once I had PowerPoint installed I decided to explore it myself, following many of the examples that were shown to us in class. I used some of these tools to edit and play with the image below.

 

 

As we only had one EDCI 336 class within the past two weeks due to the Thanksgiving holiday, this provided us time to explore the audio editing program, Audacity, and the video editing program, DaVinci Resolve. My previous computer was a Mac, so I was accustomed to using iMovie for editing videos. It was nice to be able to install and explore a video editing program on my new computer, as well as having a step-by-step walkthrough of the video editing process. I know that I will certainly be making use of this program later on this term!

Overall, I found this class to be extremely insightful on graphic design and on applications that will help us with our tech projects in the future. I will be using these resources to organize and create my final project for EDCI 250, and I look forward to discovering how I can incorporate these programs into my other classes!