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Zeega is a tool I would like to try

The ten tools to learn article was very interesting to me, they talked about literally ten tools that I have not learned about. While I was exploring through the tools one of them stood out to me and I found it very interesting. Zeega  its a website where you can make videos such as documentaries on whatever you would like.

With these videos that you make you could make cool sounds, videos, and pictures. You could also add text to go along with them. It’s an easy way to interact with other people’s stories as well as sharing your own.

When you first go on the website you could automatically look at the different videos that people share and the different videos they talk about. Zeega makes putting together and sharing it with people from all over the world very easy, and is great for teachers to use this site for their own classroom, I might just make one myself. Its definitely a site worth using.

Peachy skincare

peach and lily

The blog that I chose to write about is a blog called “Peach & Lily”. Lately, I have been trying to keep my skin clear and acne free. The way I do that is through a skin care routine. I always feel less confident about myself when my face has a pimple or if it has acne scars.

The thing that I like about “Peach & Lily” is that the author struggled with the same exact thing I have, dry, itchy, and acne-prone skin. “Peach & Lily” promotes skincare products that can be used for all types of skin concerns, such as dryness, oiliness, redness, and sensitive skin. The blog is a great resource to use to suggest products for someone with troubling skin.

 

Amara, captioning videos for free

While reading “Ten tools to learn, more to explore”, there were many tools that I liked, such as Timeline.js and Title Mill/Map Box. But, the tool that I found interesting was Amara. Amara is a site where anyone can caption, subtitle, and translate videos.

I played around with it by using a video that I made in a previous course by adding captions to my voiceover. It was rather easy to use. First, you type what you hear in a text box. Then, you would sync the captions with the voiceover. Lastly, you review the video to make sure that all captions are synced on time.

The syncing of the captions did take some time, but overall I liked this tool because anyone can translate my video into a different language. Amara’s mission is “Working to Build a More Open, Collaborative World”. I like the message that they are trying to send. Through videos, we can all connect with each other no matter what language one speaks.

Here is the link to my subtitled video.

 

Mrs. D’s corner

Calling all Special needs teachers!

If you are a special education teacher you need to read this blog. This is my first time reading a blog o writing blogs.

There are many great tips, crafts, and ideas for teachers to look up too for support. It gives me the extra support and lets me know that I am not the only crazy one in the world to teach in a special needs preschool. Many say I am crazy for my career choice, but I love every second of it!

                                                       Mrs.D’s Corner Blog!

The Age Of Walls

I have watched the interactive project from The Washington Post, and I have found it to be very interesting and really liked it. Something I loved about this was how the episodes are laid out and it’s like watching a story on the internet with examples of videos and pictures as you go. There are three different episodes, which makes you want to keep watching.

I really liked the first episode the most where they talk about the world’s border barriers and how they made history, and how these border barriers increased globalization. In the first episode it talks about how putting up barriers has increased because there are 63 border walls that have walls and fences separating countries that are right next to each other and the increase started after World War II. The episodes shows a map of all the countries that have walls on their borders and also shows a statistics graph of the numbers changing through out the years.

There are two videos where Bores Johnson talks about how “as a country we should take control” and also Donald Trump’s saying in a press release chanting “Build that wall!” He wanted to build a wall to divide Americans, and build a border fence between the U.S. and Mexico and it worried of migrants in that region. A lot of people did not want this to happened and got angry when Donald Trump continued to pursue it. They had a survey and studies show that younger generations are less likely to favor the wall and non- Hispanic whites are twice as likely to favor it as black or Hispanics. They believe that the fences being put up has made thousands of Mexicans and Americans to take risky routes, A man from Mexico in the video talked about what his opinion was about the fences being put up was “No they are not going to stop us.”

The Post series showed about how the people around the world are being affected by the border barriers. The videos are truly heartbreaking. One 18 year old boy named Issad Zakaria, was searching for  job opportunities in Germany and he attempted to cross the border near Idomeni and was infested with criminal gangs and patrolled by police. There are many disputes going on around the whole world with these different countries and I have learned from reading about this that it does affect a person when watching all of these people’s videos and interviews on how they are living their life in fear is really heartbreaking. This was one of the greatest stories I have read on the internet and it really kept me interested throughout out the while story, definitely a story worth watching.