Video is currently under construction. While I have completed a draft storyboard, and an idea of how I will complete the video, power outages, student absences technical difficulties and family emergency's have impacted my ability to get this assignment underway. However, I am confident that I will be able to complete the video shortly. My next challenge lies in school closures. On a positive note in sharing my storyboard and ideas with select students and staff members, that will either be in the video or play a part behind the scenes has sparked excited. I am toggling with the idea of adding caption, sub=titles and/or Spanish translation to the video. I will leave this idea on the back burner, until the actual video is completed. I look forward to completing this part of the capstone project.
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Flexibility and Patience are two characteristics that I found myself having to face this week; as we experienced power outages and school closures. Therefore, I was faced with the added complications of completing the assignments for the EDUC 703 and EDUC 792 courses. However, through creativity and perseverance, I managed to accomplish most of the tasks. The video/movie making app review me to try both Movie Maker for Mac and iMovie. However, I quickly chose the iMovie for a few reasons. The first being that the Movie Maker program was challenging and not as user-friendly as I would hope for myself or my students.
Additionally, there was a $59 fee involved with access to the full version of the program. While iMovie is pre-installed on my iPad, I have not had any experience in using the app. While the iMovie video recording app/program is much more challenging and complicated for my current students, I am hopeful as they navigate and master several other applications and programs, they will, with support of staff members, be able to utilize it later in the school year. Currently, my students have been exploring Chatter Box, Do Ink Green Screen, and Stop Motion to expand on their iPad and video recording skills. The end goal of them being able to video record or make mini-movies of what they are learning. Currently, the students are reading James and the Giant Peach. They are making figures from modeling clay and recording stop motion videos of one of the scenes from one of the chapters previously read. I have utilized the I do, We do, and You Do strategy, which has proven to be successful for all of the students. So far, this has been a fun, ganging, and motiving activity for the students. We have purchased various materials and equipment for these projects (i.e., modeling clay, green screen, iPad holder, tripod, backdrops, etc.). Lastly, I was recently informed that our district has agreed to purchase new iPads for our classroom. Soon the students will have access to current applications that otherwise are not working on our older iPad devices.
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