I was excited and anxious about this week’s assignment. I do not have much experience creating videos but, since I want to create more videos to use in my classroom, I was eager to learn. By first writing a video script and creating a storyboard, I was able to organize my thoughts and stay focused on the end product. Peer reviews of my script were conducted on the discussion board and I sent my storyboard to James Hawks and Jeanette Conti for comments.
I went to an iPad workshop this week to learn some apps for the new iPad that was provided by the school’s PTO. One of the apps was iMovie. I used this app and my iPad to create the video this week. It was extremely easy to use. It took me longer to gather photos than it did to insert them into the video. While I only have a basic understanding of the features of iMovie, I found it very easy to edit the photo lengths and to record narration for the movie. I do still need to explore ways to download the iMovies but I chose to use Vimeo this week since I have used this site a couple of times in the past. I was able to obtain an embed code from Vimeo and insert this embed code into a gadget on my Google site.
This assignment was structured to allow us to learn a variety of techniques that will be very useful in the future.
