EDLD 5363 - Week 5 Reflection

This week we are to turn in the updated pre-production document, evidence of team collaboration and the team video. Every member of the team will turn in all the same information, hopefully! Dr. Abernathy emphasized again that +20 seconds on our video is ok so we can include credits and creative commons information. She also reminded us that we all need to copyright our work since it is our intellectual property. Even if EVERTHING in your video is original, use creative commons so that you can let other people use it, or not, your choice. The important thing is to remember that you want to give yourself credit for the things that you do. She also suggested that we have our kids do the same thing. This makes them realize what they can use from others and what they can't. She also discussed a lot of information about principal certification and what we have to do according to Lamar and according to the State of Texas. Dawn, an instructional associate also helped people with things like when the next course has to be paid for and when it will start. Don't forget that we have to take a course called ILD at one of the regional service centers in order to get principal certification from the state. Thanks Dr. A and Dawn for all the great information!

EDLD 5363 - Week 2 Reflection

 This week we had to individually make a podcast that is a tutorial for a video editing software program. I chose Microsoft Movie Maker because even though I had it on my computer, I had never used it. Since I already had a team together for the next part of this course, I went to them when I couldn't figure out whether we were supposed to do just audio or do video as well. Dr. Abernathy addressed it in the web conference as well. She also said that the week 3 assignment was not due until the end of week 4, but my group was so on the ball that we had it all done at the end of week three! Dr. Abernathy is so great, she is a real person and understands that we have lives and jobs and families and a million things to do. I really appreciate that when it comes to crunch time on these courses. She also stated to remember that everyone is working away from professional paid software and moving toward free web 2.0 tools which is a savings for us and for our schools.

EDLD 5363 - Week 1 Reflection

My experience working on my digital story was mostly a good one. I have never used Photo Story before and it was very easy to use. I hope I can find a way to use it for something else! Anyway, I posed by script to our group page and got critique from my group members. I also emailed the storyboard to them to get their feedback. I got feedback from them including comments about the time. I did have to cut quite a bit at the end since it was about two and one half minutes. I managed to get it down to two minutes and one second. This was the only frustrating part, figuring out what to cut. My other frustration was that I had to go upstairs to record so my dogs were not barking and the TV was not in the background. Then I had to cut quite a bit and that was frustrating as well. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the experience of making my story and seeing how my group member’s stories came out as well.