Making Movies

As I've come to better appreciate the role that technology is playing in enhancing the learning experience, I have come to see video as a fundamental component of our audio-visual resources. By combining image, sound, and design, we can reach out to students of various learning styles, and make our lessons accessible at any time, in repeatable fashion, to anyone, anywhere. And I think that's fantastic.

I really like the idea that my students could come to my website after class if they were having a hard time with a concept. And that they could read and look at pictures of what we had discussed. But sometimes sorting through numerous pictures and lots of text can be a pretty daunting endeavor. That's why I see short video segments as so useful. We can provide explanations, and animated visuals, and explain in much greater clarity in a more appealing way. Our students will be used to this sort of media anyway; they will probably watch more on youtube than they do on traditional televisions, and so will be innately familiar with our lesson material.

I took a few film classes back in high school, but that was before digital camcorders. So I learned how to shoot and edit in analog fashion. So I'm new to the whole computer editing. But from what I tried on imovie, I'm way impressed. It was so intuitive, I thought. The apple tutorials were very helpful too. I think I'll be using imovie much more often from now on.