Well, my Thanksgiving was absolutely wonderful!! I was able to spend a lot of time with my family and I was able to be in my best friend's wedding. The weekend was such a blessing.
Even with all of that going on this past weekend, I was still able to create and finish my digital story. Being a baseball coach and fanatic, I wanted to use baseball as a platform for students to see how math is prevalent in the real world.
I used iMovie for this project, which is preloaded to the macs in our class and on my own personal MacBook. iMovie allows for photos and videos to be put together as a movie. The movie can have music played over and text can be added as well. iMovie default saves as its own file. However, you can also directly post the movie to youtube, Facebook, CNN iReport, or you can save the movie as a QuikTime file. So the program certainly has the capabilities to post to whatever platform you would like.
Within my video, I wanted to show math in baseball, specifically geometry. I used photos that I personally took of Patriot Field at Jefferson County High School. I also used photos of the Patriots that were taken by Linnie Brown. She was kind enough to allow me to use them. I spoke with her via email and she granted permission (and even was delighted by it). The photos used had, in some way, a shape or geometric concept within it. I zoomed in on those shapes and concepts.
I think the movie may give incentive or spark interest in students as many love baseball. And with that, my goal of showing that math is prevalent everywhere would be accomplished. This assignment certainly was enjoyable and certainly will be helpful in my profession.
Above is the final product. Enjoy!!
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