Final Reflection
My group and I created a educational video of El Nino. We chose El Nino because no one wanted it so we said we would. I did the video taping and the people we worked with where patient. Every thing went well. We showed creativity by creating the video. Independence because we found out how to work imovie. Curiosity, because we reasherd alot. Finally cooperation, because we had to work together.
Cyber Bullying
I choose this topic because there are so many people getting cyber bullied. I have learned that over 4,500 people take their lives because people bullied them so much! I liked using the ipads because I can use more creativity. I also liked to be alone when I work because I have trouble listening to other peoples ideas. I need to work on the recording because if I moved a bit there was a loud noise.
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Video Reflection Essay
Video Production Reflection Morgan Swaton
The video production process is hard, fun and long. Teaching students to be comfortable with technology is a lifelong skill they should have. In my team time class we made videos for the iVIE awards. In this class we focused really hard on the 5 stages of video production. The first step is we write down our ideas on paper. Ideas for videos could be like a video about polar bears and their habitat. Then there is the research phase. When you take your final idea and start doing research about it. The third step is the script/story board. It helps us break down our video. The most popular one is production. This is when we use the ipads and chromebooks. After we make the video we share it with our teacher and she would share it with the class and they would write one glow and grow. Then we would fix our videos.
The first thing we do is write down some ideas for videos. My ideas included a French fairy tale. (Also a “How to” about how to make an edible fruit sea turtle.) Finally, cyberbullying which I did for my PSA and would have liked to improve on. We also had to choose topics with little topics inside. I had an interest in doing humanities, PSA’s and Global Village. One of the ideas I didn't write down was the history of World War II in German. German was too hard to learn though when the French story didn’t work, my group came up with these two ideas. A “How To” card trick because Ethan knew how to do it and a “What Is STEAM” video which we decided on.
My group and I didn’t have videos that would need a lot of research but we still did a good amount. First off, we had to learn French which is a WHOLE different language. Then we had to search the Internet for a safe, appropriate and kid friendly story. We decided on Little Golden Hood, a French version of Little Red Riding Hood. Since we had a technical difficulty, we had to change videos. We thought that we knew a lot about STEAM, so why not do a video about it? Plus, we did an interview so we asked people that knew or taught the subject. If they didn’t know what to say we looked up what is the E in STEAM or something like that. We specifically found students and teachers that knew a lot about it so it was accurate and no one would feel dumb.
The next step was the script or storyboard. Since we were going to act it out at first, it would take a long time to draw and write every scene. So just skipped that part and went on. We did look back at the story of Little Golden Hood and used that as a storyboard. We would say, “First you are now supposed to pretend to be Grandmother” so we didn’t draw it but we copy and pasted the story to a Google Docs. That’s what we used for a story board. One of the questions Mrs. Cerelli gave us was, “How does the storyboard help us?” Well my answer was somewhat. In our case we just went to the actual story not the story board. Another question was, “Do you prefer a digital or paper storyboard?” I prefer a digital one because I draw stick figures when I’m not trying. Also I have messy handwriting. It is also easier to read the nice clear font.
This is the stage every kid wants to be at and even will rush to get there. It is the production stage. I was in the team with Ethan and Faris.Our team somewhat collaborated. Faris wanted to do legos drawing or origami. Ethan and wanted to do acting. Ethan wanted to do transitions one at a time for us walking to Mrs.Youngs room and I thought it would take to long.It was really annoying arquering.I lesrned to do transitons on I movie. STEAM right now is very important and big at our school right now so our video was “trending”. I personally can not work with my partners again. I would have liked to do it alone.
After production the final stage was the peer edit/revision. So what we would do is send our videos to Mrs. Cerelli and she would show them to the class. Then, for each group we would go on google classroom and write one glow and grow.Some of the videos were really smart and cool such as the candy bar one and the Rubics cube. Lola and Liva did a project that I have never seen before. My group didn’t get to finish on time to do revisions but here are some things we did wrong. We did the transition wrong. And we mixed up the interviews. Over all I didn’t really enjoy my video.
As I said before the video process is long confusing but fun. There are five stages ideas, research, storyboard, production and peer editing. I learned how to do transitions. Transitions help you go from slide to slide faster. I also learned we should always have a plan B. Our plan B was the STEAM video. Usually we would do something easy for a topic but for the iVIE awards we chose hard, interesting topics. Even though my video didn’t get into the awards I still learned lots and I don’t regret doing it.
The video production process is hard, fun and long. Teaching students to be comfortable with technology is a lifelong skill they should have. In my team time class we made videos for the iVIE awards. In this class we focused really hard on the 5 stages of video production. The first step is we write down our ideas on paper. Ideas for videos could be like a video about polar bears and their habitat. Then there is the research phase. When you take your final idea and start doing research about it. The third step is the script/story board. It helps us break down our video. The most popular one is production. This is when we use the ipads and chromebooks. After we make the video we share it with our teacher and she would share it with the class and they would write one glow and grow. Then we would fix our videos.
The first thing we do is write down some ideas for videos. My ideas included a French fairy tale. (Also a “How to” about how to make an edible fruit sea turtle.) Finally, cyberbullying which I did for my PSA and would have liked to improve on. We also had to choose topics with little topics inside. I had an interest in doing humanities, PSA’s and Global Village. One of the ideas I didn't write down was the history of World War II in German. German was too hard to learn though when the French story didn’t work, my group came up with these two ideas. A “How To” card trick because Ethan knew how to do it and a “What Is STEAM” video which we decided on.
My group and I didn’t have videos that would need a lot of research but we still did a good amount. First off, we had to learn French which is a WHOLE different language. Then we had to search the Internet for a safe, appropriate and kid friendly story. We decided on Little Golden Hood, a French version of Little Red Riding Hood. Since we had a technical difficulty, we had to change videos. We thought that we knew a lot about STEAM, so why not do a video about it? Plus, we did an interview so we asked people that knew or taught the subject. If they didn’t know what to say we looked up what is the E in STEAM or something like that. We specifically found students and teachers that knew a lot about it so it was accurate and no one would feel dumb.
The next step was the script or storyboard. Since we were going to act it out at first, it would take a long time to draw and write every scene. So just skipped that part and went on. We did look back at the story of Little Golden Hood and used that as a storyboard. We would say, “First you are now supposed to pretend to be Grandmother” so we didn’t draw it but we copy and pasted the story to a Google Docs. That’s what we used for a story board. One of the questions Mrs. Cerelli gave us was, “How does the storyboard help us?” Well my answer was somewhat. In our case we just went to the actual story not the story board. Another question was, “Do you prefer a digital or paper storyboard?” I prefer a digital one because I draw stick figures when I’m not trying. Also I have messy handwriting. It is also easier to read the nice clear font.
This is the stage every kid wants to be at and even will rush to get there. It is the production stage. I was in the team with Ethan and Faris.Our team somewhat collaborated. Faris wanted to do legos drawing or origami. Ethan and wanted to do acting. Ethan wanted to do transitions one at a time for us walking to Mrs.Youngs room and I thought it would take to long.It was really annoying arquering.I lesrned to do transitons on I movie. STEAM right now is very important and big at our school right now so our video was “trending”. I personally can not work with my partners again. I would have liked to do it alone.
After production the final stage was the peer edit/revision. So what we would do is send our videos to Mrs. Cerelli and she would show them to the class. Then, for each group we would go on google classroom and write one glow and grow.Some of the videos were really smart and cool such as the candy bar one and the Rubics cube. Lola and Liva did a project that I have never seen before. My group didn’t get to finish on time to do revisions but here are some things we did wrong. We did the transition wrong. And we mixed up the interviews. Over all I didn’t really enjoy my video.
As I said before the video process is long confusing but fun. There are five stages ideas, research, storyboard, production and peer editing. I learned how to do transitions. Transitions help you go from slide to slide faster. I also learned we should always have a plan B. Our plan B was the STEAM video. Usually we would do something easy for a topic but for the iVIE awards we chose hard, interesting topics. Even though my video didn’t get into the awards I still learned lots and I don’t regret doing it.