One of the things we did today in class was look at iMovie and Audacity. I’ve had very limited experience with video editing or audio recording in my life, and before today even the thought of having to work with programs like iMovie  or Audacity would have made me anxious. However, after immersing myself in these program today for only a few minutes, my fears have begun to subside. iMovie was quite easy to use – I feel like after being exposed to it even for this small amount of time, I could go home and produce a piece of work that would be leaps and bounds ahead of what I could have produced when I got up today. The same goes for Audacity. This is encouraging for me as a future teacher, as I am now confident I would be capable of introducing programs like these to my students so that they don’t have to live, like I did, with an irrational fear of such useful tools. Instead, they can be introduced to these applications early, and quickly learn what fun they can have with them! See below for Youtube tutorials on both iMovie and Audacity.