EDCI 5825 Video Editing Project Reflection

Video Editing Project - 'Hellen Degeneres' Show: CyberBullying

What would you do differently if you could do it all over again? Are these changes based on feedback that you may have received from friends, peers, family members, etc? I would definitely work with music clips that worked more parallel to my clips. I loved adding the music to the video. Also, I would possibly make the slides all look a similar way instead of playing around with effects. Because I was afraid of time, I cut a lot out, in retrospect I wish that was not the first action I took when creating the video. These are changes that I decided when viewing my work. One of my girlfriends suggested the music should fade out!

What is your reaction to the video recording/editing process? Please discuss any positive and negative reactions.
Positive: Excellent project, fun, engaging and it is definitely something I would like to work into my units or lesson plans in the future!
Negative: For some reason, I felt that I did not have enough time to truly explore the application and every time I had ideas it either took to long to figure out a way to accomplish or was impossible for me to find the solution. I have a few things I did not get to try!

Do you think it would be possible to have students in your current/future classroom create a movie? Do you (will you) have the resources, time, and skills necessary to include such a project in your classroom? Please explain.
Absolutely! This is definitely something that I would love to incorporate in my classroom. I am not sure if I will have the resources but there are other ways to have students create videos for projects that I could research. Students could create videos that took their scene performance one step further. Or they could perform songs, poetry or other creative writing and put that into a video to share with classmates. That is the great thing about technology - applications are usually social and foster collaboration skills. I believe this activity would be very engaging for most students and a great way to bring youth culture into the classroom.

Did you learn anything new from the video editing/recording process? Please explain.
Well, I had never used imovie before, so - everything was new! Creating a project from scratch (to be graded on was a little daunting!) but I learned so much. I truly had fun and all of the hard work that I put into it really paid off I think! I can't wait to share it with my group and see what they think. This was my favorite project :)