EDLD 5363 Week 5 Post-Production

What I can say about week 5 and about the whole EDLD 5363 class is that the production of this public broadcast announcement helped me understand how the structured process of producing a video following the steps we learned in this class was a key element on producing the best result possible. The interaction with my team was so helpful and intense that I consider that this was one of the classes that I have enjoyed the most. We were meeting on a weekly basis at least twice through out out Google doc and the information that we shared helped me tremendously. Yesterday, when I was reviewing the final product I was telling my wife how proud I was about how we worked together being so distant from each other and having only virtual meetings. This collaboration has a lot to be with developing the technology leadership to bring all these web 2 technologies directly into our classrooms.

EDLD 5363 Week 2 Web Conference

When implementation of new ideas is discussed, one of the first questions is how much it will cost to implement it. Whit the new era technologies and specially with the WEB, free software for evaluation and free limited time trials are available in order to make possible to evaluate the implementation of these new ideas with out having to pay even a single penny. As Siegchrist express in his article, some software is free and simple, some expensive and complex. You'll need to find a program that fits your editing style and your budget.(Siegchrist) Through this web conference, advantages of free software and free trial evaluation software advantages were exposed and clarified in order to increase our technology leadership. Recommending  using these kind of software before buying to ensure that the implementation will be successful and produce desired result may impact schools finances positively by avoiding failed software purchases.

Work Cited: Siegchrist, G. (n.d.). Get started with desktop video. About.com, Retrieved from http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/desktopeditinghardware/u/GettingStarted.htm

EDLD 5363 Week 1 Web Conference

Web Conference: During this week, we were introduce to the creation and use of multimedia videos as a tool to increase collaboration among teachers and students. This web conference was very productive explaining us how to develop your own personal story scrip by using interview techniques and tools that produce a rich and complete set of ideas and reflections in order to communicate and share more effectively. 

Avid Studio is an excellent video editing software that allows virtually anyone with minimal computer skills to manipulate, organize and agglutinate individual picture, video, and audio files as one unique video clip file. Long ago, when our best idea of having a beautiful story idea to be shared with as many as possible was to write it down and add some pictures and drawings .Today, we see our children playing with their toys and having a great idea, grabbing a digital camera filming it and using a software like iMovie to present their story and export the resulting mp4 file to You tube or Face book where other children from all arround the world can make comments and become followers of their videos. , “Software Adapt a Scene or Story: Similar to writing a new ending, Students do their version of a scene from an existing book, story or movie.”( Garrison, 2009)

One of the advantages of Avid Studio is that this product it is absolutely and completely compatible with all the user friendly Operative system features and provides users with easy and understandable menus and short cuts that allow people to access easily and efficiently all the video editing features that the software offers.

The experience of this video editing tool start with how easily its menus guide the user to start a new project and incorporating the events that are basically the pieces of video and pictures that will be used to edit and conform the final video clip product.

Other of the features that help user to enhance and organize well produced professional looking videos is the title, transitions tools that offers a series of all include effects screens that can be edited and modified according with the user needs in order to add titles, subtitles, transitions and texts to the video that is being edited.

Work Cited: Garrison, A. (2009). Video basics and production projects for the classroom. Media Matters, Retrieved from http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/video-basics-and-production-projects-classroom

EDLD 5301 Week 4 Post

 

I agree with Dana Cheletee about how truthful little one are and how their opinions can be used to establish if there were impacted positively, attracted and engaged by the lesson based on Active Board and its interactive software more than a regular lesson based on a worksheet. I am looking forward to seat with my students and listen to their opinions. Casey Smith agreed with the same idea about thrusting first grades about their opinions. Mrs. Abshire mentioned to me that Promethean Planet is an excellent resource for finding information about Active Board. I agree, just two days ago I had a faculty meeting and one of my L F Smith peers was sharing a flip chart downloaded from Promethean planet and frankly what I can say is that it was awesome.

Active Board Students Engagement Increase

The problem: Students because of technology and high levels of media exposure are used to receive high volumes of information and stimulation during short period of time. Because of this, students attention spam has become shorter and motivation and promoting engagement techniques have become an essential tool for anyone trying to spend a day in a classroom and achieve learning from students. Because of this my inquiry is what is the relationship between Active Board usage in a lesson and students engagement and attention spam increase?

Goals and objectives/outcomes of the research investigation: Measure the impact on attention spam and students engagement of multimedia lesson based on Active Boards and how it helps students to succeed academically and motivate the usage of Active Board among LF Smith Elementary teachers.

Activities designed to achieve the objectives:

Interactive lesson plan, regular worksheet lesson plan, student survey, teacher survey.

Resources and research tools needed for data gathering:

• Active Board hardware
• Active inspire software
• Lesson plan
• Assessments
• Students survey
• Teacher Survey
• Power Point Presentation

Draft time line for completion or implementation of activities

 

Action Step	Person(s) Responsible	Timeline: Start/ End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Examining the work	Intern	02/04/11	Lesson Plan Students Survey	Were students more engaged?
Analyzing data	Intern	02/05/11	Teacher observation students survey	How much more attention spam and engagement did students have?
Developing deeper understanding	Intern	02/08/11	Teacher observation students survey	What are the reasons why students liked the interactive lesson?
Engaging in Self-Reflection	Intern	02/10/11	Teacher observation students survey	How can this be applied to other teachers and how?
Exploring Programmatic Patterns	Intern	02/11/11	Teacher observation students survey	Does this apply to all students? What groups of students were impacted the most?
Determining direction	Intern	02/12/11	Students survey teacher observation	Is then relevant to apply and use Active Board more everyday?
Taking action for school improvement	Intern	02/13/11	Faculty meeting power point presentation.	How other teachers can get involved and obtain the same benefits?
Sustaining improvement	Intern	02/14/11	Teacher Survey	How can a permanent inquiry and reflection process about the benefits of Active Board can be established among teacher of LF Smith Elementary

Persons responsible for implementation of the action research plan

Intern will perform all activities needed to complete this action research project.

Process for monitoring the achievement of goals and objectives

Teacher will work with class doing addition and subtraction problems on Active Board and measure for how long students are engaged and participating in solving the problems.

Assessment instrument(s) to evaluate the effectiveness of the action research study

Teacher will measure time students work engaged and interested in solving math addition problems using Active Board and not using it and compare the difference in time and quality of students work and performance.

EDLD 5301 Week 2 Reflection

It has been another wonderful week of learning. The idea of an action research project and understanding that this project is part of the internship have been extremely constructive for me. I really enjoyed brainstorming, inquiring and reflecting about my topic and I really believe I found a good one and I will be able to have a positive result. I am secure this will enrich my internship and become part of my learning process as well as allow me to produce something useful for my school.