ETC Reflection

 

After reflecting on my experience in Rena’s ETC class, I found the greatest impact on me as a learner was how to apply what I have been learning by using new and innovative  emergent technology tools to create products of my own while documenting the process through blogging.

This month I feel I have learned how to commit to myself and follow through with what is important to me in the midst of daily challenges that throw curve balls my way, even when planning and structure were intended for the day.  I have learned to do my work in various ways that have made my self adaptable and flexible where and how I will get my work done.

Taking a fast pace class requires planning ahead , communicating with other’s and making myself aware and prepared for challenges I might face ahead.

If I had to take this class again, or just for my next class, I will make an investment into my own sanity, effectiveness, and backup for completing my work by hiring a babysitter and person to help clean during the following months! A couple times this month I was able to step away from my three children and work  quietly by myself. What a difference in the quality, focus and time it required  to start or finish those assignment I worked on.

I really enjoyed blogging, and it has been something I had wanted to do for a while. I will continue to blog and use photography throughout the process to capture reflections and connections to the things that bring me passion, joy and stillness throughout my journey. I am finally going to move forward with my trademark for sharing my inspirations freely within the virtual community in my own expressive way that motivates and focuses me on the present moment awareness and stay positive even on those challenging, unexpected moments life brings teachers and mothers each day.

BP9_RILS Reflection

My RILS  implementation was on using PhotoPeach to teach young children how to create a digital story that was displayed a purposeful and meaningful story that they would like to share with others. The most valuable part of this experience was that I learned how to use a new emergent technology that can integrate photography as a tool for documenting the users experience and fostered innovative communication through digital storytelling.

For myself I learned more about the process of my own learning while seeing where my motivation and engagement peeks with educational media and technology. Photography is what pulls my attention and focus into full force and the enjoyment I experience from it leads me to want to integrate this within the field of education to enhance learning for other’s.

For my learners, a sense of pride and accomplishment was felt from capturing their own photo’s and creating their own shows to share a story.

I liked that I was able to share a passion of mine with my learners and it increases both the teachers engagement during implantation as well as engaged the participants while being able to have user control and creatively express their own voice with digital slideshows, captions and music.

If I was to implement this scenario again I would use it in the classroom to demonstrate a variety of other uses PhotoPeach offers, such as creating quizzes for students, or collaboration amongst students, or for delivering lessons within the classroom to increase engagement and motivation.

 

 

 

 

BP7_RILS_PhotoPeach_Educator Studio Post

Christina Wilson

ETC- July 2012

RILS Implementation

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Title: PHOTOPEACH: PHOTOS THAT BRING STORIES TO LIFE

BRIEF OVERVIEW

Designed for K-8 students to design and write their own digitally and musically enhanced slideshow. Students will have the ability to share their stories by uploading their own pictures, pick the music for their shows and write their own stories discussing the meaning behind the pictures that they chose.

TARGET AUDIENCE

My target audience will be for children in grades K-3 at home for summer break using photography with their family.

MATERIALS

• Pencil

• Paper
• Writing Drafts

• Computers
Photos for uploading

• Memory Cards or Flash drives for photos

OBJECTIVES

• Learners will create a digital sideshow by uploading pictures they captured themselves and integrate sentences, music or audio to tell a meaningful story.
• Learners will understand differences and similarities in a family unit and experience the diversity within their community.

PROCEDURE

• Go to PhotoPeach.com(Students View on Overhead Projector)
• Click on Sign up for free
Enter a username, email and password
• Click on Explore

• Click on a category of interest (Family, Nature, Pet’s and Animals, Education, Science, Travel, Sports)
• Go to Photopeach.com (Students on computer).

• Select Create New Slide Show (Upload Photos.)

• Select up to 30 Photo’s of interest and Upload to Photo Peach.

• Drag and drop photos to change the play order

• Drag photo’s to the right side to delete them.
• Double-Click to see large previews
• Click Next
Add Music or upload your own Audio
• Draft and Write out Title and Captions for each picture on paper.
• Add a Title
• Add Caption’s to your pictures.
• Customize
Play slide show.

• Share each child’s slide show with the class and family.
• Embed each show on the class website to share with a collective community.

EMERGENT TECHNOLOGY

Photopeach.com is a slideshow application that is user friendly for all age groups that allows you to share your photos but also create digital stories by writing your own captions and integrating music to add to the viewing experience.

SOCIAL PARTICIPATION/ SOCIAL LEARNING

Students will start the activity by collectively discussing their own family units. They will watch a slideshow of my own family album and discuss members and their roles within it.

 

MAKING CONNECTIONS

• Previous Knowledge: From discussions and stories on families and community children have discussed the various members that make up a family.
• Relevant: Children in K-3 are learning about roles and member of a family unit. This will help them make connections and understand the members and functions of each person in a family. Students will make connections that they too are a collective part of a community.
• Local/Global Audience: By creating their own slideshow, students can share their stories and shows with others through embedding into the class website, sharing with the collective community on PhotoPeach, and sharing the slideshow with family and friends.

 

CREATE/PRODUCE

• A slideshow and digital story will be created with music and captions describing students personally captured photos edited just for their presentation.

 

REFLECTION

• Students will reflect on their experience by creating their own family album/and or meaningful story.
• They will present their slideshow and share with the class and families. This will enable students to be exposed to the differences in meaningful stories created amongst their peers.
• Students will be able to compare and contrast similarities and differences of the families that make up their community.

Assessment

• Rubric for Digital Storytelling: Photo Peach: Bring your story to life with Photos!

• Teacher Name: Mrs. Wilson

• Student Name:     ________________________________________

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Images	Images create a distinct atmosphere or tone that matches different parts of the story. The images may communicate symbolism and/or metaphors.	Images create an atmosphere or tone that matches some parts of the story. The images may communicate symbolism and/or metaphors.	An attempt was made to use images to create an atmosphere/tone but it needed more work. Image choice is logical.	Little or no attempt to use images to create an appropriate atmosphere/tone.
Soundtrack – Emotion	Music stirs a rich emotional response that matches the story line well.	Music stirs a rich emotional response that somewhat matches the story line.	Music is ok, and not distracting, but it does not add much to the story.	Music is distracting, inappropriate, OR was not used.
Grammar	Grammar and usage were correct (for the dialect chosen) and contributed to clarity, style and character development.	Grammar and usage were typically correct (for the dialect chosen) and errors did not detract from the story.	Grammar and usage were typically correct but errors detracted from story.	Repeated errors in grammar and usage distracted greatly from the story.
Point of View – Purpose	Establishes a purpose early on and maintains a clear focus throughout.	Establishes a purpose early on and maintains focus for most of the presentation.	There are a few lapses in focus, but the purpose is fairly clear.	It is difficult to figure out the purpose of the presentation.

Date Created: July 13, 2012

PE2_iMovie

 Editing made easy with iMovie

Although editing is one of the most important aspects of creating enjoyable family or educational movie tutorials, it is the part I have been procrastinating  to start because the clips and tools can appear daunting to use from a novice users perspective. With a quick glance at the overwhelming amount of  footage I  imported, starting  to edit my own always footage seemed to be another task placed on my “future project  to do list”.   However, after viewing Garrick Chow’s easy step by step process of editing located within Chapter 5 of his narrated  tutorial called Editing Video.

A brief overview of the key terms and post-production processes and tips I learned about in this section include:

• Creating a new project to edit
• Adding clips to the project
• Trimming
• Slip edits
• Precision and fine tuning editing
• Realtime previewing
• User controls
• Edit points
• Cropping and Rotating
• Time saving tips and shortcuts

Creating a New Project is as easy as 1-2-3

1. Select the New Project button located in the Project Pane
2. Name your new project, select your preferred Aspect Ratio, click Create
3. Go to your Event Library and Click on your Titled selection that you want to use for the current project.

Trimming and Editing

Hello world!

Welcome to my blog post Reflective Connections. I am a educator, mother of 3, and a full time student at Full Sail University’s Education in Media Design and Technology Master’s Program. I intend to use this blog to reflect on the emergent technology applications I am connecting with throughout this program and beyond my educational career. I hope to help teachers, parents and children find a way to bring more motivation and engagement into their life and create more educational, technological, social and personal reflections while  sparking meaningful connections within and around the virtual and physical community we all live in. I hope you connect with my reflective connection and welcome any feedback. Thank you all for reading and following my blog.