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.