Pinterest Assignment

Name(s):Brianna McDonald                                                               Date: Dec. 15, 2015               

What can you say about your most favorite item?

Essential Question(s): What is your favorite advertisement and why? Have you ever thought about what companies have to put into an advertisement to make you interest in their products?

Standard(s):  E.9.5.12 Identify the various marketing techniques: • advertising

Lesson Objective(s):  Students will learn about the different techniques of marketing in advertising while creating their own advertisement about their favorite item.

Overview:  The purpose of this assignment is to learn about the different marketing techniques in advertising and to learn what goes into an advertisement to incorporate iPads into Project Based Learning. In class, you have been learning about marketing, supply and demand, and advertising. Your assignment is to create an advertisement using any iPad app you find for any object about all of the elements you have learned about. All of the links you will need are located on the Pinterest board labeled Educational Technology Fall 2015.

Assignment: 

1.      For this assignment, you will need a Pinterest account. If you do not have one, you may create one on www.pinterest.com. If you already have an account log on, and Follow my board that has the title Educational Technology Fall 2015.

2.      On this board are twenty links about technique in advertising and making an effective advertisement for your audience. You will need to create research from these links for your project. Your advertisement should follow these guidelines and popular formats. You may use iPad apps to take notes when researching.

3.      After you collect your research, you will use the information found to create an advertisement. You may create a flyer, commercial, or anything else creative you can think of. NO POWERPOINTS! If you do a commercial, make sure it is not longer than one minute. (If it is too long, you may lose the focus of your audience.) Located below are the rubrics you will follow and a list of apps that may be helpful in your process. (The rubric has sections that may not apply to you.)

Note: Remember that this is an INDIVIDUAL project. You may not work with a partner or copy someone else’s work. In order to be successful on your advertisement, make sure you check the rubric for everything you need. If creating a flyer, make sure your image(s) match your description and don’t overwhelm the whole thing. If creating a commercial, please incorporate your item in a way that is creative and unique.

4.      When you are finished with your assignment, you will upload it to the drop box located on Angel by the due date.

Advertisement Rubric

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Presentation	Well-rehearsed with smooth delivery that holds audience attention. Very organized. Fonts are used effectively and creatively.	Rehearsed with fairly smooth delivery that holds audience attention most of the time. Organized, Used different fonts but not cohesive.	Delivery not smooth, but able to maintain interest of the audience most of the time. Not organized. Very hard to read; font’s not cohesive.	Delivery not smooth and audience attention often lost. Very unorganized. Unreadable.
Mechanics	No misspellings or grammatical errors. Very good flow during commercial.	Three or fewer misspellings and/or mechanical errors. Three or few flow mistakes during commercial.	Four misspellings and/or grammatical errors. Four grammatical mistakes during the commercial.	More than 4 errors in spelling or grammar. More than four grammatical mistakes in commercial; flow hard to follow.
Content	Covers topic in-depth with details and examples. Subject knowledge is excellent.	Includes essential knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge appears to be good.	Includes essential information about the topic but there are 1-2 factual errors.	Content is minimal OR there are several factual errors.
Requirements	All requirements are met and exceeded.	All requirements are met.	One requirement was not completely met.	More than one requirement was not completely met.
Attractiveness	Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the presentation.	Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation.	Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content.	Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presentation content.
Originality	Product shows a large amount of original thought. Ideas are creative and inventive.	Product shows some original thought. Work shows new ideas and insights.	There is little evidence of original thinking. May have taken ideas from other advertisements.	Uses other people's ideas or another advertisement. No originality shown.

IPad apps that may help you during this process:

·         The most natural digital handwriting experience on iPad, Penultimate gives you the convenience and feel of writing on paper with the added power and availability of Evernote. Take notes in class or a meeting, journal your thoughts, or outline your next big idea -- in the office, on the go, or at home on the sofa.

·         Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.

·         Great for work. Great for school. Popplet is a platform for your ideas. Popplet's super simple interface allows you to move at the speed of your thoughts. With Popplet you can capture your ideas, sort them visually, and collaborate with others in real time, quickly and easily!

·         Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screen-casting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere

·         Tellagami is a mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated video called a Gami.

·          PosterMaker is a way to design real, printable posters, flyers, and signs uing your iPhone or iPad. This app saves all creations as PDFs. (Cost $4.99)

Examples of effective advertisements:

 The Hump Day Commerical

 AND 1

   Nike Shoes  Reese’s Candy

10 Tools You Can Use in Your Classroom:

1. ChartGizmo: This tool allows you to create charts for websites, blogs, and other social interactions. You may use this tool for visualizing finances, scientific data, test scores, and many other types of raw data.The following diagram types are available: Pie chart, Bar graph, Line graph, Ring chart, 3D Pie chart, 3D Bar graph, 3D Line graph, Candle, Scatter-plot, and Time-Series. You can also import data from an excel spreadsheet. You can use this in your classroom by creating your own graph for tests or assignments. You can also assign your students to create their own while doing a research project, teaching them how to create a graph with technology, or to show data averages and scores of the class on tests or assignments. 
   
2. Animoto: Animoto allows you to customize your presentation. You can pick a song, style, and then add videos, pictures, and text. Most people use this for family photos, businesses, birthdays, and many other things. Educators can use this to show a create way to present information to others. Students may use this when creating a presentation for class, It allows the student to learn a new technological way to get information across. Maybe have them create an all about me presentation for the first week of class.
   
3. Haiku Learning: Haiku Learning allows you to create a classroom page for online learning around this content. You can embed content such as a YouTube video, GoogleDocs, and other websites. You can also create online assignments for students to log-in and complete. This is great for schools, like Arkadelphia High School, that requires every student to have a computer for classes. You can create a classroom page for your students, where they can complete test, assignments, and see their grades after each task is completed. You can use any google app with this platform.
   
4. InfoPlease: InfoPlease is a research tool. It allows students to cover many different topics such as people, government, science, and other top topics. It includes a calculator, spelling checker, periodic table, and other common tools students are using in the classroom environment. This is a great website for students to use to research topics for projects. They can use encyclopedias, dictionaries, a thesaurus, an atlas, and other books.
   
5. QuizRevolution: This website allows you to create your own quiz or survey. You can add content and customize your own information. It can be on any topic to help keep the audience engaged. Teachers can use this resource for one question polls or quizzes. They may use this for bell-work or to answer a question about a story that they read for an assignment. It may also provide feedback from the students on how hard they think the material is.
   
6. Page Flip-Flap: You can transform any document (word, pdf, movie/video) into an interactive flip-book. After you create one, you will receive an email with the URL Link or your flip-book. It's free to use, and it allows you to share it to any website. This is great for teachers who give out online assignments, even college professors. They can create from their document a flip-book for students to use. It allows them to be more interactive with the material, and it conserves printing out a lot of paper for everyone. 
   
7. Tagul: Tagul allows you to create a free web-cloud. It is like Wordle, and allows you to customize it to any shape possible. When you click on the words, it searches it with google and creates a link. This is great for teachers. They can have their students create one after a project, and the words can take them to the websites they used to complete the assignment. It's an alternate works cited page that is interactive online. 
   
8. Podomatic: This internet tool allows you to combine photos and audio into a video or presentation. You do have to create an account, but it saves all of your work to go back and review. It's free, and anyone can use it. This can be use for technology projects. When I was in school, in our senior only class, they were to create a senior slide-show and present it to their class. They had to incorporate photos of whatever they chose, (mostly themselves, family and friends), and add music that goes with the photos. It teacher them to cut music and collaborate their ideas. 
   
9. DivShare: DivShare is a media delivery system that allows you to upload documents, save, and share them. You can keep up to 5 gigs online. You are able to store videos, photos, music, and document files. Students can upload their work to this website if they don't have a flash-drive on hand. It allows their documents to be saved, and they can log-in on another computer to complete the work and access what they have so far.
   
10. StoryMash: StoryMash is the future of collaborative fiction. It is for writers, readers, and anyone interested in creative writing. You can view others work and give feedback. Teachers can use this in writing or English classes. They can have students make accounts. While working on papers, students can peer review each others work and take the feedback to improve on the task at hand. It allows for interaction with peers and helps each other teach what they know.
    

How has social media impacted your life?

Negative Effects of Social Media 

While reading this article, I found two of the negative impacts to be really true: 

• It might make you spend money.
• It alters your appetite. 

Both of these have impacted my life. As a huge online shopper, I tend to follow multiple boutiques and makeup websites for deals. Every time I see new clothing in stock or there's a huge sale somewhere, I tend to browse around online and ultimately buy something new. Do I really need what I put in the shopping cart? Most of the time, no. It has turned me into an impulse buyer and I don't need that stress in my life. On Instagram, people post almost everything. Especially FOOD! It drives me insane to see so much food late at night. It turns into eating junk food and baking cooks with my friend Jamie at 2 am. ALWAYS! Eating so late has caused so much weight gain, but I just don't have time to work out. In order to stop this from happening, I only log on one day a week at most. That way I'm not running to Wal-Mart to get cookie dough late at night. 

Impacts of Social Media

Social Media has displayed impacts on different people all over the world. Everyone is affected by it. Whether its blogger, YouTube, Facebook, or Pinterest, you take part in at least one social media website. Pinterest is my favorite. There's no negative effects that this article talks about, such as cyber bullying, sexual harassment, impact on privacy, or even politics. Most people tend to use social media to stay in contact with distant family, friends, or they may have it for their job. You never tend to think about how teenagers act on social media; nor do they think about the consequences it could have on their future. I said Pinterest is my favorite for a reason. You don't have to post, nothing negative pops up (at least not on mine), and you can take a peek into other people's interest as they can yours. With that being said, we should be followers of each other on there. :)

My Pinterest Account

My name is Brianna Elaine McDonald. I was born in Texarkana, Texas, but I have lived my entire life in Stamps, Arkansas, My parents are divorced, so my immediate family includes my mother, a younger brother, and myself. I enjoy spending my free time hanging out with friends, but it mostly ends up being on YouTube, Pinterest, or playing video games on my iPad.

I am currently a junior middle school education major, and my goal is to become a math teacher upon completion of my degree. After a few years in the education field, I plan to attend Henderson again to obtain a masters in curriculum instruction.

When I first attended Henderson, I was not an education major. My goal was to work with deaf children as an audiologist/ speech pathologist. The summer after my freshman year changed my goal in life. I received to opportunity to work the whole summer with a group of children. We did several activities, but it was mostly educational work to help them advance in the next school year. After spending time bonding with the children and teaching them new things, I started to think how would my life be as an educator. EVERYONE in my family is in education, so why not follow their footsteps?

I am starting a blog to not only talk about my experiences through college, but to offer tips and ideas to help new students get adjusted to "college life". There are many things I wish I had figured out, even at the beginning of my sophomore year to make my junior year even better. Maybe someone else can benefit from my experiences to help make their own more enjoyable. I have met some amazing people along the way and I couldn't get through the rest of my time here at Henderson without them.