Semester Reflection

This semester I learned how to make a podcast. Each week we added something better, like add cool details to grab the attention of the person who is watching the podcast. I learned how to make music in GarageBand and learned how to fade out the music. I also learned how to add music into our podcast, so it can make our podcast sound better. I learned how to make animation in powerpoint. I learned a new site called Kerpoof and it is a very good site to use to make a picture with cool tools. We learned new words from the Word Generation book and got to find pictures that match the word, the word's definition, sentence, and the Word Generation book sentence. It was really fun working with new classmates because you could see what skills they are good or bad at. This semester I learned a lot of things from my media arts class.

Impressionism Allegiance Picture With Kerpoof

This is an impressionist picture of my word for this week, allegiance. This boy is reading the Pledge of Allegiance. It was hard making this picture because I needed to add a lot of details to make this picture look like impressionism. This is my first time making this kind of picture, and It took me like three days to make this picture. 

Advertising Challenge

My idea for getting more people to watch our podcast is to tell teachers to tell their students to look at the our podcast for their homework. The teachers should tell their students to write a summary of the podcast and make what they like about it. Also, the latest podcast should be on the front page, so the students can see our latest podcast we made. Students can learn new words by looking at our podcasts. It may improve their vocabulary and their reading skills. This is my advertising challenge idea.

AdvantageWong1 and DerivesWong2

Advantage

	clarity of speech (Can understand every word spoken. Not too fast nor too slow. )	creative look (the title, images, video and credits are all easy to see and make you want to look at the podcast. Illustrations are related to the word or sentence and feel original and fresh. The credits don’t go by too quickly and are readable. There’s a sense that the whole podcast has the same theme and look)	creative production (The music adds quality to the podcast. It’s not too loud nor too soft. You can hear speech over the music easily.  The speed of the podcast is even and flows without blank spots or awkward cuts. There’s something interesting about the way it’s all put together. The Kerpoof picture is relevant to the word and a sentence and makes the podcast more interesting)	including all requirements (This week’s requirement was to use a Kerpoof picture with a cartoon that used at least one of the words. Great means they used more than one. There also must be 1.     definition 2.     WG sentence 3.     Original sentence 4.     Credits with no last names 5.     Bibliography with name of web site and urls 6.     Document named the word)
Great	I can understand everything clearly; the words are in a normal pace.			It has all the requirements that is needed in this column.
Needs a little work		It wasn’t very smooth to start the picture before you finished spelling the word	Talking pretty fast. The picture sequence doesn’t really match words Transition to a picture of power plant very good
Needs a lot of work or isn’t there at all

Derives

	clarity of speech (Can understand every word spoken. Not too fast nor too slow. )	creative look (the title, images, video and credits are all easy to see and make you want to look at the podcast. Illustrations are related to the word or sentence and feel original and fresh. The credits don’t go by too quickly and are readable. There’s a sense that the whole podcast has the same theme and look)	creative production (The music adds quality to the podcast. It’s not too loud nor too soft. You can hear speech over the music easily.  The speed of the podcast is even and flows without blank spots or awkward cuts. There’s something interesting about the way it’s all put together. The Kerpoof picture is relevant to the word and a sentence and makes the podcast more interesting)	including all requirements (This week’s requirement was to use a Kerpoof picture with a cartoon that used at least one of the words. Great means they used more than one. There also must be 1.     definition 2.     WG sentence 3.     Original sentence 4.     Credits  with no last names 5.     Bibliography with name of web site and urls 6.     Document named the word)
Great				It has all the requirements that is needed in this column.
Needs a little work	They could have spoken a little faster, because it was a bit too slow.
Needs a lot of work or isn’t there at all		There is no title in the podcast and the podcast doesn’t have enough creative look.	The music is missing.