Successful World Cup?

It was a good run for the US soccer team I feel like they met expectations yet did not exceed them. For the casual soccer fan the world cup may be over but I am typing this while watching a GREAT game between Germany and England. This only happens once every four years so enjoy it. I came across this great U-Tube video and I think it may answer one of the questions I posed in my history of soccer in the US digital story. Enjoy....

iMovie and Soccer

Yeah that sums up the last 3-4 days, if I was not watching a soccer game / highlight I was working with imovie for our digital story project. Lets start with soccer.... Happy with the USA performance on Sat. to tie England (even on a lucky goal) is a big accomplishment for the team and the rest of the games should be easier. As for my Australian side....not so good, they were embarrassed on Sunday by Germany and their chances look a lot slimmer

That leaves imovie, at first I was very frustrated and felt like a 5 minute project was going to take hours of work (and it did) however the next time I use it things will be much smoother. Imovie has so many cool features and it is very easy to use, I am looking forward to making some home movies of the family. Not really sure what is going on for class (as usual) do we have one last class? is it Thursday? Wednesday? Siberia? Regardless, school is almost over and the summer is here. Life is good.

Technological Inclusion

Well I feel like I have had a bit of writers block lately... Not quite sure what to post, don't want to just write stuff to writer stuff (Teri). But as we are coming up to the end of this class I was thinking about all of the technology that I /we are putting into place for next year that we learned from our first two MAIT classes. I am very excited to use my class website next year and have a class blog that the students will effectively run themselves. It is pretty exciting that we have so many more classes and so much more to learn! In case you are counting only 3 days 7 hours and 13 minutes left until the World Cup!

Ole'!

Well at the exact moment that I am writing this blog there are 14 days 21 hours and 35 minutes until that kick off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. If you know me, you know that I have grown up my whole life playing soccer...if you really know me, you know that I was born and raised in Australia until I was 10 years old... so if you combine the two you know that I am very excited for this years world cup and I am expecting the Soccerroos (not the coolest name I know) to have good showing and at least make it to the knock-out round.

I guess this was a bit of inspiration for my American culture storytelling project; I am going to talk about the (slow) rise of soccer in the United States. As you probably know soccer is easily the most popular sport in the world and it is true "football", just don't try to tell that to any meatheads in the US. I think that the Siberians may relate to this topic since soccer is a popular Russian sport. It should be enjoyable. Well looking forward to tomorrow nights Arts Festival!

Lets Go Mets!

Unidentified Creatures

So if you watched last nights vidlog here are the creatures that nested right outside my back door and are on the verge of becoming dog food. Anyone know what they are? Rabbits? Mice? Hyenas?

Lets try something new

Just when things are finally starting to take shape...

Well another class down and I think I finally feel at ease with expectations and assignments....Just in time to be removed from the program! I truly did enjoy the collaboration with Rita, Judi and Matt and got a kick out of the fear in the other groups eyes when they realized what they had to follow! The instructional design process really became that much clearer tonight and I have to give Judi credit for coming to us with the survey, analyze...I forgot the rest....process.

Easily the best part of the night was overhearing Ryan and Dr. Amy discuss his contract and realizing that I needed to modify my own to include a website. I have been looking forward to making a classroom website for a while and this is the perfect opportunity. I cant believe how fast the class is going only a few weeks left. Overall just happy with how tonight's presentation went especially with all of the minimizing we did...