Sunday, November 25, 2012

EDLD 5363 Week 1 Reflection


This week was fun and hectic at the same time.  Making my video was a very good learning experience for me.  I was able investigate some new tool that I can use in the future with my students. I looked at  Stuperflix and Knovio, but decided to use Move Maker this time because I never used it before.  I found limiting my script to a page and a half very helpful.  It allowed me to concentrate on the important point of my story and leave out unnecessary information.  It was still hard for me to get my video under 2 minutes, but after about 10 revisions and the help of my girlfriend and mother I got it done. I found Audacity to be a very good tool to record my voice and convert it to the right format to be uploaded to my project.  I still think my voice sound horrible on the video, but I bet most people feel the same. I found all the scripts from my class mate to be very interesting and I enjoyed reading them.  I look forward to making more video in the future. 

My Digital Story

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Week 4 EDLD 5301: What I learned about action research


This week I learned that constantly reevaluating your project and talking to others will be very important in completing my project.  From talking to my site supervisor and the comments that I have received on my blog, I am re thinking parts of my plan. I am now looking at narrowing the focus of my project to only one campus and see if my plan can still work.  I am also looking at if I should narrow the number of subjects and grades I will use to collect data on.   I know this project will be challenging, but the more people I can talk to about it will help me reevaluate and make changes as needed.