My expectations for this course were very open. I have worked in video technology and multimedia for quite a while so my hopes were to learn some new techniques or get some new ideas to use with my students and with my own work. I had not considered the idea of a group project for this course becasue of the nature of the course format. As it turned out this type of project worked very well for this class. Having to work together to overcome some of the limitations of working at a distance from other team members put an interesting challenge in front of us. I feel like that my group was successful in adapting to the challenges and in overcoming them.
At first I was not sure how I could take the lessons learned in this class and apply them to my school experience, then I realized that I could take the same basic concept and develop a collaboration with some of the other schools in my district. Several of the other campuses are developing video programs like the one on my campus and this would be an excellent opportunity to apply the lessons learned in this class to help our students learn. I have already contacted two of the other elementary campus IT Specialist to see if they would be interested in moving forward with a cooperative project of some type.
I feel like our team was very successful in achieving the outcomes set forth in the class. I feel like my individual projects met the criteria established and hopefully provided some information or entertainment as well.
I often underestimate my own creativity when it comes to completing project like the ones required in this class. I especially enjoyed the challenges that the assignments presented each of them required a different take on dealing with multimedia and video issues and problems. All in all I feel like I gained from this class because of the need to meet each of the challenges presented in the assignments.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Reflection on Our PSA Assignment
In the beginning I was concerned about working with a group of people that I did not know on a project that was a major portion of our grade for this course. As it turned out we worked very well together and each of us fell into our natural roles in the process. The selection of our topic came easily and once the reaseach was completed a production plan came together easily. Once the video was shot and edited the process of adding the voice over dictated the lenght of each sequence. We had a choice of final formats but chose to use the .wmv because of it relatively small size and the fact that all of us could view it without difficulty.
As the one responsible for the editing, I would improve some of the transitions and the visual overlays at the time I thought they were good but in retrospect some of them could have been a bit smoother. I felt the contributions and input from the team members was very good. The biggest problem we experienced was that of having to rely on email to exchange ideas and contribute our pieces to the whole project. If there had been some central location that could have been used as a drop box it might have worked better.
All in all I think that this was an excellent example of cooperation and exchange of ideas among people who did not know each other at all in the beginning.
As the one responsible for the editing, I would improve some of the transitions and the visual overlays at the time I thought they were good but in retrospect some of them could have been a bit smoother. I felt the contributions and input from the team members was very good. The biggest problem we experienced was that of having to rely on email to exchange ideas and contribute our pieces to the whole project. If there had been some central location that could have been used as a drop box it might have worked better.
All in all I think that this was an excellent example of cooperation and exchange of ideas among people who did not know each other at all in the beginning.
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