About Me
- Kristin Trammell
- I am a student at UT about to enter my internship year at Anderson County High school. I have a major in Geography with minors in History and Business. In addition to being a student, for the last four years I have worked at Agri Feed Pet Supply as the aquatics manager. I am extremely passionate about education and hard work. My interests include fishing, hiking, cooking, eating , reading, and movies.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
The Softer Side of Germany
Using iMovie was extremely frustrating at first. This program at first appears like it should be easy and fool proof. However, I soon learned that you cannot simply try using a feature, then delete it or change it. Actually, you can, but it leaves a hidden little booger that gets in the way when trying to do something later. It keeps a copy of what was deleted and hides it underneath the new slides inhibiting future creations. This probably makes no sense, unless you have used iMovie.
In the end, I must say I am happy with the end result of my iMovie. The pictures are not too clear, but the sound match up with the pictures is pretty good in my opinion. I would love to use this iMovie in my ninth grade Geography class during the unit on Europe. I think kids have a hard time enjoying Social Studies, but if different instructional methods, like the iMovie, are used in class, it can be more interesting and enjoyable.
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I think you did accurately capture in layman's terms the inherent trickiness of using iMovie. You can't just try and delete features glibly. You really have to know your options ahead of time, storyboard, and be very careful and deliberate when adding and taking away effects.
ReplyDeleteI hope you will find a storytelling tool that is free and accessible on your campus. Not only should you use digital storytelling as an instructional mode, you should explore ways to engage students in the creation of their own stories about continents, countries, cultures, or current events. As you said in class, this could be done even with PowerPoint, which allows audio embeds, hyperlinks, and a lot of other underutilized (I think) storytelling power.
Alan Levine is an international speaker and educator in instructional technology, and he built a wiki about free applications for digital stories (using Google presentation versus PowerPoint, for instance). He provides a quick review of each tool and links to a couple of examples. You might want to check it out!