Blog: Please finalize blogging around your journey from rough to final cut and any challenges or successes you can share with the group.
I would say for me the two biggest challenges throughout this whole process were time and (I’m inventing a new term here) ignorance procrastination. This can also be confused with creativity procrastination. As with everyone else, I’ve got a very busy life, and I don’t like to procrastinate, I just don’t feel good about myself when I procrastinate. That being said, ignorance procrastination, as defined by me, is when you procrastinate because you don’t know how to do something. Not quite sure where to start...so you put it off. Related to ignorance procrastination is creativity procrastination. We’ve been given numerous opportunities throughout this program to show our creative side, and sometimes I’m just out of creative ideas, so I put something off until a brainstorm hits me. Sometimes...a brainstorm never hits, and I wind up completing work below my standards just to get the assignment done. In reflection...even though writing the paper over the summer was a very frustrating, daunting task, I’m very thankful that I had all the time during the summer to work on it. It makes me realize that finalizing my capstone, producing videos, posters, infographics, blogging, etc., would’ve been a little easier if we had the time we have during the summer break. As I write this blog during my prep at school (three days late) I can honestly say I don’t think I’m going to finish everything before the deadlines. Three kids, wife, sports schedules, mascot and football craziness at Napa High, 4H pigs, home improvement, and teaching full time are all on burners in front of my capstone burner. I’m going to keep plugging away, because nobody likes these dark clouds of responsibility looming overhead, but I’m also not going to over stress about it. I’ve set the goal of getting my Master’s Degree and I’m going to get it...I just might have to slow my pace a little bit. But it will get done. I appreciate Touro’s patience with me.
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Blog for the week: Give us an honest appraisal (venting?) of your next journey steps around trying to produce your Capstone Project video. What problems did you encounter? How did you solve them? The intent is open a useful discussion that can help raise the bar for everyone.
At the time of this Blog, it is a Friday afternoon before Spring Break, so I apologize for any ramblings. I have to admit that I’m still struggling and procrastinating a little bit on my video. I’ve created a list of all the things that I want to get done over the break and the video is on the top of that list. My next step is to edit my script, because the feedback I got from the group was that it was too long. Once I get that down to about 90 seconds, I’m going to record it into iMovie. My last blog I said I wasn’t going to use iMovie because everything I’ve done so far has been on my Lenovo ThinkPad, but I’ll be using our family MacBook Pro for the video. I hope there’s no problems uploading the video to LIL after it’s complete...so far I haven’t used the Mac for any Touro stuff, makes me a little nervous. After the audio, I need to upload my videos and pics to iMovie. I struck out when I hooked up my iPhone to the Mac, iMovie didn’t recognize it as a camera, but Roger said I would work around that by downloading the pics/vids to iPhoto, then transfer them over. Haven’t had a chance to do that yet, partially because of time, partially out of fear of failure and not having a back-up plan in place yet...this is the first thing on the docket for me this weekend, not only so I can check off the assignments on the HW doc, but the video is the only thing I need to get finished for my “Home” page to be complete on the Capstone! Good Luck all... Blog for the week: Give us an honest appraisal (venting?) of your next journey steps around trying to produce your Capstone Project video. What problems did you encounter? How did you solve them? The intent is to open a useful discussion that can help raise the bar for everyone.
I have now watched all the video tutorials for YouTube Editor, Animoto, Moovly, WeVideo, and iMovie. I am not going to be paying any money for my Capstone video, so that eliminates Animoto, Moovly, and WeVideo. I’m going to be using my district issue Lenovo, so that eliminates iMovie. So I’ll be using YouTube Editor. Taking the next steps makes me very nervous. I’m starting to have a concept of how I want my video to look. I’ve written and edited my script and it’s a little over 90 seconds, when I read it fast. So I’m happy with that. I’m okay if it’s a little long. Now what I need to do is take pictures and video of my classes using technology during stations to use as my b-roll. That will happen Thursday and Friday this week when I do stations. I also need to figure out how I’m going to show my still frame shots of my class and the photos of apps/websites that I’m featuring in my Capstone stations usage. To me, the part I’m fearing the most is editing the video, so the pictures that I want to show up actually show up during the right time of my reading. I know I created one or two other videos during my year with Touro, but none of them were as involved, with as many “moving parts” so to speak. It would be nice if the videos that we had to create earlier in the program were a little more extensive, so by the time students got to semester 3, they were a lot more comfortable with the editing tools. I sent a message to the guy that was linked in our iCare that had the YouTube editor video to see if he would email me to give me some advice. I’m waiting to hear from him, or if anyone in our cohort has experience with YouTube editor, they can let me know in the comments...Thanks! Blog for the week: Give us an honest appraisal (venting?) of your journey around trying to produce your Capstone Project video. How did you decide what editor you might use? What problems did you encounter? How did you solve them? The intent is open a useful discussion that can help raise the bar for everyone.
At this current time, I think I might be going about this backwards...only time will tell. It's Sunday evening, and my blog is due, and I haven't messed around with any video yet because I've been writing my script, saying it out loud, timing myself and trying to get it somewhere around 90 seconds. I did watch the recommended videos and of the four that were on the iCare doc, I really liked the fourth and final one, which was "cartoony" and done using the Powtoon app. In my mind, I'm going over my script and wondering if it will be possible to use that format for my video. I also got onto about 4 other capstones and watched their videos, and that inspired me quite a bit. Alex Saslow's was like an infomercial, I really like it, and his acting performance is Oscar worthy. I know I won't be able to use iMovie because I'll be using my school computer, I don't have a Mac, but I still need to check out Movly and WeVideo. I spent my time writing my script instead of playing around with any of the video apps, so I can't really share any of my frustrations yet. If you haven't written your script yet, I found going back to my research paper and pulling 4 or 5 nuggets of information helped me quite a bit with my script. Use 3 different Add-ons on one Form and do a review on your experience:
From the list of Add-ons above, use at least three of these in your form to see how they work. If you already have data collected you might choose to explore Auto-Crat, or RowCall. After your experience I would like you to write a blog review of the Add-ons you chose and what hurdles you encountered and your overall experience. Blog Disclaimer: I wasn’t able to get a chance in the last week and a half to actually create a google form and have my kids partake in it, but I watched a few video tutorials of the add-ons below and provided my thoughts, and I did download three add-ons that I plan on using in the next week or so. Sorry, my curriculum at this time just didn’t allow for any extra time for this right now. FormMule: I love the idea of having an email template where we can send out emails to multiple students, however at Napa High we don’t have the culture set where students are checking their devices on a daily basis. I could see using this sometime in the future if I had the time to pre-load all my students emails and even my parents emails into FormMule, so I could send home reminders about projects, HW, and even use it for positive and negative reinforcement. I do enjoy when students email me, and they’re getting better and better at it...I’m afraid of the Pandora’s Box I’d be opening up if I started communicating with all 160 of my students and their parents in a larger way. I feel like I’d be spending tremendous amounts of time emailing. When I went to download this add-on, it asked me to log into my tu.edu account, and that’s the drive it started using when I started to play around with it. I don’t know enough to know if I was doing it right, but I think if I was going to use this I would want to use my nvusd.org account so I can use it with my students. Where are add-ons icons and access stored after you download them? DocAppender: I’m feeling very overwhelmed and very underprepared because I never use google forms, I feel like in order to access the full benefits from this add-on, I would need to be a teacher that uses google forms much more often, and is much more familiar with it, until them, I feel lost playing with this add-on, and reviewing it. Are there tutorial videos somewhere that show you HOW to do this and what the benefits are? Holy crap! I just answered my own question there by watching a 12 minute Youtube video about how to use DocAppender, and now I think I might be even more confused...Can I apply DocAppender today to a google form that I did a year ago, or does DocAppender need to be a current add-on when I set up a new google form that I’m going to use? How can I use this in a high school math class? formLimiter: Again, I watched a video about how formLimiter works, and it does seem like a functional asset for google forms, but two things: I don’t use google forms enough, and I can’t imagine how I would use it for high school math. I did download the add-ons Flubaroo, g(Math), and Super Quiz, which I would like to use sometime in the near future with my students. Flubaroo and Super Quiz are both ways of giving assessments through google forms and then they help you analyze and organize your data afterwards, they both instantly grade your (simple) quizzes for you and show you all the answer responses. g(Math) looked like a pretty cool add-on especially for math, it allows both the google form creator and participant to use “equation editor” type functions on a google form, to use exponents, subscript, rational function lines, etc., to make the math look more appropriate. Blog about the following thoughts: What has been or now is your experience with Google Forms? Is it intuitive? What challenges did you encounter when building your form? Do you think this tool would be beneficial for your teaching practice?
I’ve used Google Forms only about 3 times. The first two times were to ask a pre- and post-survey for my research paper for EDU 790. I was able to successfully figure out how to post open ended questions, and quantitative questions allowing students to answer questions on a scale of 1-5. The only other time I used it was for asking another class a couple questions. I did think it was pretty easy to use, it didn’t take me too long to figure out how to make new pages, and how to write the different styles of questions. In my experience, GF is kind of limiting in the types of questions that you can ask. I found that I wanted to ask questions that had more option styles for answering. I also wish it had multiple ways to represent answers besides just the bar graphs that I found. I definitely think this tool would be beneficial for my teaching. When I wrote my paper last summer, my final recommendation was that teachers ask students often either with exit tickets, or GFs. Examples of this would be to find out what types of activities students found the most engaging. Recently, before this semester even started, I was reflecting that I need to do this more often. I will need to play around with this, to see if there are other ways to ask questions on GF. |
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