Academic Aesthetic Brain Dump 1

Normally I have videos of me playing games OR audio recordings of me talking about education. This time I combined them to see how it would go. This is the result.

Today’s topics:

  • Next year’s supply list.
  • Why Beats are a waste of money.
  • Google Drive & Google Apps For Education (GAFE) Are awesome.
  • Snakes.
  • Student tech can be better than school tech.
  • Requiring students to have their own tech runs into the “Digital Divide.” “Loaner” tech is needed in a BYOT (Bring Your Own Tech) environment.
  • Photoshop? Illustrator? Heck no, GIMP & Inkscape!
  • I edit video with Magix Movie Edit Pro. (Windows only)
  • My students are starting to use Camtasia to edit video. (Mac & Windows)
  • YouTube has a video editor. It isn’t very good.
  • There’s a video editor for Android called WeVideo. It’s slightly better than YouTube’s editor.
  • I got my number of 8th graders wrong. This is what I get for not looking at a class list during a recording.
  • If interest in my program stays steady, I am going to run out of computers in my classroom.
  • My school system is doing a computer refresh program where the older computers are signed over to students. I want in on that.

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Aaron Smith is a Media Arts & Technology Teacher who spends most of his time on computers. In his free time he plays video games, edits videos, and misses his wife dearly.