We began our PSA journey by picking a topic that is extremely important in today's cyber world. Our group's first plan was to have two teen boys filmed showing cyber bullying taking place via a computer chat room. Due to scheduling issues with having my two teen boys home at the same time, we switched gears and I used my youngest daughter and her friend (with her mom's permission). Our plan was to show my daughter having fun chatting with a friend on the internet. She was to exit the chatroom when suddenly a message pops up that is not very nice. My daughter becomes concerned and asks the bully who he/she is. The bully continues to write mean messages to my daughter which causes her diress and she ends up crying. Once I completed filming, I had to figure out how to get the video clips to my editing group partner. We talked on the phone and she helped with my iMac and downloading a compression tool. I sent all 12 video clips to her.
I had to use Audacity to record the sound at school because I could not get a microphone to work on my computer at home. I had a high school girl do the voice over and she was very excited about the job I had giving her to do. Once Audacity was converted to MP3, it was also forwarded to the video editor, Karen.
I believe Karen did an excellent job picking the right video shots to portray our message and still keep it within the 60 second time frame. The only regret is that our statistics flash by fairly quickly and it is hard to read the entire slide.
A majority of our interaction took place via Google Docs and the chatroom provided inside of the document area. We were able to discuss our plans and add them to the assignment sheet in real-time. This was an exciting feature for all of us.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Video Editing Software Evaluation
Assignment 2 - EDLD 5363
The two video editing software programs that I choose to evaluate were MS Movie Maker and Apple iMovie. My first choice was Movie Maker because the software is widely used at the new high school that I now work at and the upperclassmen are quite proficient in its use. As the new technology facilitator, I thought this was a great opportunity to also become more proficient in the ins and outs of movie maker. I found in the learning process that Movie Maker allows for drag and drop features making creating and editing videos easy. You can pull out parts of the video that you would like drop to a story board, munipulate them as you see fit and then easily add transitions and effects to the video. You can also add titles and ending credits easily. Movie Maker works best for small videos but Microsoft has many add-ons for this software and upgrades are available from the website.
My second choice for video editing evaluation was iMovie which is found on iMac computers. This is not actually a free downloaded software but comes with the purchase of a Mac. I had no prior experience with the software but this was a perfect opportunity to spend some time with it since I purchase an iMac last Christmas and I have not explored with iMovie can do with my videos. I found most of the same feature that Movie Maker provided but Apple is known for its ability to do so much more with photos and videos and I found this true in playing with the software. The features were easy to use such as drag and drop of the video clips to the story board. I easily linked to my iTunes account to add music. I was also able to add transitions and special effects but my favorite feature was in choosing a "Theme". I was able to choose the theme of a comic book and the videos would play like they were inside of a comic book. I was quite empressed with the outcome of the project and all I really had to do was choose the theme and iMovie did the rest. I am hoping that I can find the money to purchase at least on iMac for our school that the students can have the experience of using iMovie.
The two video editing software programs that I choose to evaluate were MS Movie Maker and Apple iMovie. My first choice was Movie Maker because the software is widely used at the new high school that I now work at and the upperclassmen are quite proficient in its use. As the new technology facilitator, I thought this was a great opportunity to also become more proficient in the ins and outs of movie maker. I found in the learning process that Movie Maker allows for drag and drop features making creating and editing videos easy. You can pull out parts of the video that you would like drop to a story board, munipulate them as you see fit and then easily add transitions and effects to the video. You can also add titles and ending credits easily. Movie Maker works best for small videos but Microsoft has many add-ons for this software and upgrades are available from the website.
My second choice for video editing evaluation was iMovie which is found on iMac computers. This is not actually a free downloaded software but comes with the purchase of a Mac. I had no prior experience with the software but this was a perfect opportunity to spend some time with it since I purchase an iMac last Christmas and I have not explored with iMovie can do with my videos. I found most of the same feature that Movie Maker provided but Apple is known for its ability to do so much more with photos and videos and I found this true in playing with the software. The features were easy to use such as drag and drop of the video clips to the story board. I easily linked to my iTunes account to add music. I was also able to add transitions and special effects but my favorite feature was in choosing a "Theme". I was able to choose the theme of a comic book and the videos would play like they were inside of a comic book. I was quite empressed with the outcome of the project and all I really had to do was choose the theme and iMovie did the rest. I am hoping that I can find the money to purchase at least on iMac for our school that the students can have the experience of using iMovie.
Web Conference Experience - EDLD 5363
The web conferences are an invaluable resource especially when class assignments change and confusion is created. It is nice to be able touch base with the professor and not only ask my questions but to listen/view the questions of fellow classmates. At times, my fellow classmates will ask a question that will really clear up any misunderstandings of my own. I truly feel that these web conferences are extremely important for online classes in that it is so much easier to get clarification with the professor via the conference than writting emails back and forth.
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