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From what I know with using iMovie is how to make your own introduction by using a webcam, and also how to import your home movies that you took using your own home videos, but I know that there are lots of other features that I haven't used yet, and those features are what will help me make a high quality video for presentation, or just for my enjoyment but, all I have to do is keep using this program and I will get better and better.

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Some of the best places to learn more about a certain program, is a couple of ways, the first way is by playing around with the program until you know the layout of the program, or you can go to to an online web tutorial and learn more then you could by yourself, one good online tutorials is a site called lynda.com this is an excellent source to online training.

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Going for my Action Research project, I am going to be working with iMovie to show people and other students home videos, and also the way people communicate in their own country, also it will be a visual to let people see how great it is to visit another country. iMovie is a great application to do this because it will be like making a documentary of a certain country complete with music, and transitions, and also visual effects.

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Check out the comments that I left on Emil Torabi blog post on Ning

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Check out the comment that I posted on Kathy Valunas.

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This site is a great site for drawing or creating designs or logo, it is free to join, and easy to get started. Anyone that can draw a line can design to image above, it might look complicated but it is very easy to do, the site does all the work for you, and the only thing you the drawer or designer have to do is know how to draw a line, and you logo will be something you never thought it would be. Myoats might look complicated and intimidating at first but once you get started, the rest is easy to use. Also if the site likes your design then the site owners will put it on the homepage so everyone can see it when they log on to this site. This site deals with line usage, just like drawing, so if you are starting out or are an advance drawing you can create images in a matter of minutes, but if you were to do that same image on paper it might take a couple of hours, the only thing you need on this site is a very creative and imaginative mind.

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I commented on Pamela Hickman's blog about her web 2.0 tool that she found called Quizinator, this is a great quiz making tool. Just follow this link.

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I have recently posted a comment on Jonnika Dixon blog about a web 2.0 tool called Twiddla, follow this link.

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The Second web 2.0 tool that I found that is useful and helpful, is a site called GoAnimate. This site is free to use, the only thing you have to do is sign up and start creating your own animation, then once your done you can post this on youtube or on your own personal site. GoAnimate also has a feature that allows the user to upload their own images and use them in their animation.

This site is good for anyone who is a beginner in animation, this is a user friendly site and anyone who is creative and has an imagination can animate their own cartoon however they see fit. This site is also great for teachers who wants to teach their elementary students anything, the teachers and/or students have a free range of lessons. One example is that I can use this tool for my Action Research project, because I can animate the characters, and have a conversation and teach people at the same time, just like the Disney cartoon Handy Manny.

I can have my friends and my wife help me and I can put a good animation together, that would be related to my AR project. The use of this animation site is endless, it can be incorporated into almost any subject, or situation that the user sees fit.

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Before I get started on a website that I found and messed around with it, the picture that I have on this blog I created it using the Make a Picture tool in the site called Kerpoof.

One website that I found interesting and good for students K-5 is a web site called Kerpoof. This site is a teaching tool where teachers can teach their students about art. This site has everything from creating a small movie complete with animation, and even music.

Students can also if they want just doodle with either a pen, marker, crayon, and this app also come with an eraser, just in case. Then also if the student wants to draw there is an app for that as well on this site. The drawing app comes complete with fonts, and also if the student wants they can save their drawing as a Jpeg file and save it on the computer for either personal use or for grading.

There are also app in this site to make cards, stories. It even has an app for the student to practice their spelling, because in order for the student to get a zebra then the student will have to spell it out in oder for a picture of the zebra to come into the picture. If the student does not know how to spell the object or animal he/she wants, then they will not get the picture. So this is a good application to teach students how to spell while they are using their creative minds.

Over all this site is great for teachers to get the students started in using their creative and artistic part of their brains. This site also has lesson plans for teachers to follow for their classrooms, and also if a person you like to see examples, this site has them as well.

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This is my Home tab I created this tab at the start of my education journey towards my masters degree in EMDT. In this tab I have Facebook, Twitter, My Listy, Gmail, and other personal gadgets form my use only. Over then next years I will update and change things arounds, maybe add or take stuff out and just change the whole looks of it.

My FSO tab is what I use for logging in to my dashboard, and also wimba session, I also have links to help me with my writing, and also APA help, I also have My Listy, and Linkedin. I am getting used to working with My Listy because I'm the kind of person that doesn't write things down, I just remember them in my head. Linkedin is very, very new to me, I have never heard of this until this class, so I am interested to see what this gadget can do.

AR/CBL tab is going to be very useful to me because it will be the tab I will go back to everyday, so I can get my Action Research project done, in this tab I have AR links, My listy, and also Diigo, which is another gadget that I have never used before, but this tab will grow as time goes on, and I will make sure that is tab is up to date with my current project.

ECT tab is a tab that is for this class but, as I was adding gadgets to this tab I will be using this tab more and more because I have in this tab, Google Docs, Google Reader, Blogger, My Listy, ECT Links, and Flickr. I don't know about My Listy or Flicker but, I and going to be using the rest of the gadgets very often for team projects, and also or personal uses.

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What I chose to follow on my Google reader are five websites each of them dealing with certain image editing software or tutorials. Here are descriptions of all five of them:

3Dtotal: This web site is a C.G. artists homepage, here artists from all over the world, both amateur and professional can post their work and also here artists can get tips from each other on how to do certain things, also this website has a store were you can purchase tutorials either on eBook, DVDs, downloadable videos, or even magazines to help you in your field of work.

MrCad: This website is great if you need help with you project, here this site you can get free downloadable files for any 3D software such as 3DS Max, Maya, or even Mudbox. This site also give you some tutorials on how to do certain thing from other people so this site is a peer to peer help site that everyone can help everyone else.

Eat3D: This website is great to buy tutorials on DVDs, because here you can buy tutorials from Unreal to 3DS Max, all on high quality DVDs. This site also has a discussion forum where everyone can discuss about anything, even help each other if needed to.

Photoshop Support: This site deals with nothing but Photoshop; it contains everything from events to product updates, to even tutorials. So this site is good if you are a hardcore Photoshop user.

Video Copilot: this site is one of my favorites because, I have worked with Adobe After Effects, and this site deals with pure After Effects. The site has tutorials that you can buy, also free tutorials that you can download and fallow, it even had products, which you can buy, that have videos and even certain filters, which is necessary to make certain effects happen. If you are into video editing then in my opinion Adobe After Effect is good software to use.