This week for my learning project, I tried to document my progress using iMovie. iMovie is an app for creating trailers or videos and do some basic editing to them. The app has a lot more option on the MacBook version, but I used the iPhone version and found it moderately straight forward. I did not use a tutorial for this project as I found most things on my own. This app has many basic features like photos, videos, voice overs, music, and text. Although I felt like I could do everything pretty easily, I also found out that I do not know how to make an interesting video. I feel like my video is quite boring in a viewers’ perspective, so I could work on that if I was looking to make a more entertaining video. When opening the app you are shown this screen to the right. It gives options for starting a new project, including a ‘Magic Movie’ which would make the video for you for the most part. I did try this magic movie, but it made a horrible video so I scratched the entire thing. Below that there is ‘Storyboard’, which would only give me an error message – so not very helpful. At the bottom there is ‘Movie’, which is what I used to create my movie. This section was very clear to me, allowing me to add things wherever I wanted or delete parts of clips I did not like. When working on the movie you are able to see the movie in the upper half, and the storyboard on the lower half which is very helpful to me. You can play the movie in its entirety or only certain parts of the movie using the play button and scrolling to the section you’d like, which really allows you to focus on certain parts. You can also select certain parts of the storyboard and they will become outlined in yellow to indicate which part you are working on. Doing this will give you many many options of things to do to the clips. The one I found most helpful was the ’Split’ button. ‘Split’ allows you to take one section of video and split it into two, so you may have multiple effects on the same clip at different parts. You can also drag the ends of the clips in to delete certain parts in the beginning or end, by shortening the clip on the storyboard. The ’+’ button on the left side allows you to add more media into the video. This button covers most of what is needed to make a video – the visual. I found this part pretty straight forward. Sometimes the media I added would go to random spots, but it is easy to fix. To fix this, you just have the select the clip you want to move and drag it to the part you want it to be at in the storyboard. In the classroom, I think video is a very helpful tool to increase accessibility of the lessons and class. However, I am not sure that iMovie is the best as it is only available on Apple products and does not have any special or unique features to it. Mine also did not give me a tutorial option, so it may be difficult for students to pick up this form of creation. However, I can see videos substituting for in-class or simultaneous lessons, with video lessons or lectures made by the teacher for students to do on their own time, in their own space. I also think we can reach the augmentation of lessons with the editing process that comes with video making. This allows the teacher to fix mistakes, make things more concise and review lectures before students see them, as it is easy to forget something in a lecture on a busy day. For modification, I think videos and video editing reaches a new level in the way that we can easily work and present together, including people with long distance gaps. This would allow for people to collaborate on projects from their own home, instead of travelling or limiting the perspectives in lectures. For redefinition, I think video always redefines education in the way that it is consumed. TEDTalks for example, reach hundreds of thousands of people instead of just the three hundred people who are in the room with the presenter – something that is even hard to picture for me. I enjoy video making, but I also find it hard to keep up with. It is much easier for me personally to sit down and write about my ups and downs in this learning journey, instead of filming it in the moment of it happening. It also put a lot more pressure on me to take photos of me while I was crocheting, which is very hard to do. I am sure videos are the favourite of some people, but they are not mine. Here is my video to show how bad I am at making them!
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AuthorMy name is Paige Belcourt and I am currently a student a the University of Regina. I am working towards a degree in Secondary Mathematics Education with a minor in French, as well as a certificate in inclusive Education. Archives
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