3/30/2021 0 Comments Bagels are everythingLast week I posted some inspiration from Tik-Tok by Mariam. This Tik-Tok user is unreal at what they do. I could scroll through their feed all day and find so much inspiration. This week I decided to branch away from Tik-Tok and Instagram and check out Pinterest instead for a recipe. I am a HUGE Pinterest lover. If you were to look me up on Pinterest, you'd find my many boards which cover all my interests. Some boards may include: teaching, classroom hacks, interior design, cooking, fashion, gardening and lifestyle trends. Pinterest is usually my go-to for inspiration so I am surprised I haven't turned to this app yet during my #learningproject. I ran to Pinterest and typed in "best bagel recipe". And this is the first one I saw and it had over 2500 5-star reviews. I would say that's a pretty good sign for a keeper recipe. So I didn't think I needed to keep browsing. I stuck with this one. "New York-Style Bagel's" is the name of this recipe and it appealed to me. If I can't travel due to Covid-19 restrictions, then maybe I can bring New York to my own kitchen ;). In the write up before the author shares the recipe, they state that the recipe is "simple", "delicious" and "perfection", I mean, how could I not be appealed? This recipe walked me through how to make bagels as a first timer in great detail and didn't skip any steps. I have to say I was a tad nervous about shaping the bagels because last week when I made pretzels the shape was tricky to make, but this donut shape was pretty simple. The only down side was when they were boiling they got a bit "smushed" and the middle hole got bit squished. Overall, this is a minor fail and they turned out great. My boyfriend and I taste tested them afterwards with some cream cheese and we gave them a 8.5/10. We rated them that because we wished they rose more. They were a tad "flat", which made it tricky to cut and put into the toaster. The shape may have been off but the taste was still delicious! Photo Retrevied from: https://images.app.goo.gl/3igwaALmLk9G7CHx8 Side note: I saw another EDTC 300 classmate, Shanna B., who also made bagels, you can check out her #learningproject here. They look delicious too! This week I used a NEW creation tool. I tried Fotobabble. Fotobabble allows you to add voice recording to your images which then creates a little video. I created a Fotobabble which can be found at the end of this post. I found this creation tool to be quite straight forward. You could upload the select images you wanted and then place them in the correct order for your final "video" clip. As you can see below, I uploaded my images on the left and then which ever image I wanted a voice recording, I would click on the image and then there would be the choice to add a voice recoding (microphone image), text (T image), edit (paint brush image) or delete (trash can image). I tried to play around with the Text and Edit option, but there wasn't a whole lot you could do other than filter, crop, or add a text below the image selected. So, I stuck to using the voice recording option (microphone button). For the voice recording option, it was honestly quite simple. You would press the "start recording" and then would verbally say what you wanted and then you could press "stop recording", it then would load, and then you had the chance to "listen" to the recording, "re-record" or "save" the voice recording. From there, you would do a voice recording for each image you wanted a voice over for. In the image above, you can see I used the text option and voice recording option. Check out my first Fotobabble creation here. Overall, I would give an 8/10 rating for Fotobabble. It is VERY user-friendly but I wish it had more options for details and making the clips look more appealing. I would use Fotobabble again but I think I would combine last week's creation tool: Canva AND Fotobabble for a more appealing experience. If you are interested in knowing more about Fotobabble, check out this creation tool review.
Stay tuned for next week #learningproject, Haley
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