It's fall and time for the fall festival to begin. We are all excited and working furiously on our final preparations before opening on September 19. This year promises to be bigger and better than last year. One of our newest attractions for this year is the "Drop Zone", a sixty foot super slide. If thrills are your thing, this slide will not disappoint.

Along with the "Drop Zone", we have added swings to the Tractor Tire Playground as well as a new retail center. This retail center will feature homemade goods such as baskets, honey, and other goodies. Owen Farm also has a new variety of "critters" for all to enjoy. Our corn maze is even more challenging than last year, so get ready to be "cornfused"! Another new feature planned for this year is the Sycamore High School Drama Team's screening of their "horror films".

For those who enjoyed last year, we still have Mrs. Presson's Fried Pies, a scenic hayride, the barrel train rides, as well as a "stand out" musical lineup for each weekend of the festival. Our pumpkin patch is looking really good this year as does our new entrance and ticket booth. Reserve a weekend between September 19th and Halloween to visit Owen Farm for some new family memories! We'll see ya'll here!

Games

I was hesitant about playing games for this assignment. I had heard horror stories about those websites. For the purpose of this assignment, I decided to use a website I felt was safe. PBSKIDS.comis the site I chose. My Jing for this assignment may be viewed at the following address:


http://www.screencast.com/users/lowen08/folders/Jing/media/5944e3fd-e88e-4388-ad14-ba7d7fa82a0c

Music

I used Jing to video one of the songs that I enjoyed while visiting Pandora. The video may be seen at:

http://screencast.com/t/eZupM1rxp

I really liked Pandora and plan to visit again often.

Jing Assignment

I was able to get the Jing to film a video. I had the most trouble getting it to publish my video. I wasn't sure if the URL address for the film was enough and I would have liked to see it and be able to view it from the blog.

http://screencast.com/t/akMlvWipweq

February 2, 2008

This assignment has a varied list of to do's...

YouTube:

I have actually uploaded a few videos to Youtube before now. I enjoy it very much and have used it for many things. I chose to attempt to embed one of my own videos for this assignment. I attempted to add the video, but received an error on page message each time I tried.

My First Blog

This is the first entry into my blog. I am excited to have this opportunity to use this form of technology in the classroom as both a student and a teacher. One of the first issues at hand is the use of podcasts in the classroom. I use podcasts frequently especially when introducing new literary genres to students. Many folktales are presented in podcasts and have been extremely useful and beneficial to me and my students.