EDLD+5363+Multimedia+Video+Technology

Week 1 "Whether you show completed projects to the class alone or to the entire school or even the whole community, present the stories your students tell. There's a good chance their work will be much more professional than you expect, and light-years beyond what your community might anticipate. A great side benefit of public showings is that your students will take their work very seriously. The knowledge that others are going to see it (and you can't hide C-quality work on a big screen) has been the source of tremendous inspiration for filmmakers for a hundred years." I like this whole paragraph because it goes back to one of my core values of teaching. I believe that students don't see the value of the work they do because it is only seen by the teacher. In order to give work creditability it needs to have a wider audience and to know who that audience is. When they have to view their work they know what type of quality it is. They don't want to show bad work and lose face in front of their peers.  New,J. (2005). How to use digital storytelling in your classroom. Edutopia. Retrieved April 4, 2009, from http://www.edutopia.org/use-digital-storytelling-classroom. Week 2  " You also invariably end up with footage you can’t use, often due to the unexpected appearance of objects on tape that you never noticed during the shoot." I had this happen in many videos I have shot. It can be things you didn't notice at the time like a niece or nephew in the background playing hide and seek with the camera. Or your taping a live event you can't have repeated and someone will walk right in front of the camera. These unintentional shootings can be discouraging when your getting started. But they are often times the things that are most loved families. It often shows more of the members true personality when they are caught by the camera rather than in the main shot.  Lonnquist, J. (1994, November).The art of the edit. Videomaker. Retrieved on September 4, 2010, from http://www.school-video-news.com/index_files/Art_of_the_Edit.htm

Week 3 The article that really made since to me was Success Is in the Planning. I had been wondering why the storyboards were so important. I was also feeling nervous about trying to make or follow the storyboards. Two things in the article helped me see the importance of storyboards. The first was the list "Why Should My Students Take the Time to Create storyboards?" the second was the connection of the production cycle to the writing cycle. Having taught fourth grade for years I know the better the story is planned out the smoother it will go. Once I could see the same thing in the production cycle I could see how important it would be to have an idea of the types of shots you would want so that the time isn't spent fixing things in editing.  Center for Educational and Training Technology. (2006). Success is in the planning. Retrieved April 9, 2009, from http://www.create.cettmsstate.edu/create/howto/Storyboard_Handout.pdf.

Week 4 "Audacity not only includes many high-quality effects built-in, but also lets you use LADSPA and VST plug-in effects. There are dozens of free, shareware, and commercial plug-ins online that do everything from Reverb to Noise Reduction." This is a great open source software allowing multiple companies and individual to develop plug-ins that extend this already versatile programs ability. It allows for many formats to be imported and exported. I would like to see a plugin to allow editing of AAC format. But it would save only one step of converting it using Aiseesoft Converter. I remember when you could do it with iTunes but they are really pushing their AAC format.  Audacity Introduction - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/intro.html Our site for our group can be found here: <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1zYg3H44hx4N-WCxXX66Oz6GrauMcKNHeCoOd1i0ly3A&authkey=CJL0ma0G&hl=en&pli=1# <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">and our web site []

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Week 5 <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Randy Nelson says, "Accept every offer...a sure thing on one hand, dead end, and possibility on the other." I like this because life is full of choices and while we don't need to be like Jim Carey's __Yes Man__. Every offer is life offering you a new path. It is easy to choose what we know, but is that really living and is that really growing. We all embarked on a journey when we signed up for this degree. I know it has shown me many new things that will continue to make me a better teacher. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Nelson, R. (2008). Learning and working in the collaborative age: A new model for the workplace. // Edutopia //. Retrieved April 23, 2009, from http://www.edutopia.org/randy-nelson-school-to-career-video.

This was a very interesting class. I personal think my groups PSA was one of the best!