Journal #6

I really enjoyed using inspiration software. I felt that it had a fairly natural flow to it for people who use computers offend. I didn't have to read directions or use the help menu which to me says that it is a really intuitive. I liked the way you could easily change the shapes of the objects in the flow chart. I didn't like the way it did the lines that connected the objects. I thought that they were difficult to place and control if you chose not to use straight lines.
I want to teach high school math and i think there are definetly some fun ways to incorporate this program in to my class room. I think possibly with solving equations and there being a definite order to the way do it students could create a flow chart showing the steps we use and that could go on the wall or be a cheat sheet for tests.
I didn't use the atomic learning software because I had no problems using the software.

Imovie is definitly a fun program. I really believe that apple makes the most user friendly software out there and besides a couple glicthes (not being able to ass transtitions with out dragging and droping) it was really simple and interesting to use. Now I know all editting software these days have that bar across the bottom to move clips and adjust sound but that really helped me in using the program. I think that students of this generation who have been using computers pretty much since birth are really going to like imovie because of the ease of use and the way you can just hop right in without much tutorial.
I think this might be a difficult program to incorporate in to a math classroom. If I had to though I would think about creating a semester long project where the students have to make an entertaining and eductional movie about one of the topics we covered that semester and how it might come in handy in real life.
Again I didn't use atomic learning because after the tutorial in class I felt like I had a good handle on the program.