To be honest, it took a little more work that previous classes to actually get started on this week's assignment. But, once I took the time to read through the assignment, attend the web conference, and decide on my topic, things started rolling rather quickly. As I narrowed down my topic, it was hard to choose between a couple of subjects. I finally decided to work with a childhood memory and discuss our family move when I was in 1st grade. I still have vivid memories about the move, which in the end, turned out to be great for our family. I was also worried that two minutes would be a lot of time to fill. But, when I started to write down ideas, and answer questions from my partner, I realized that two minutes was actually going to be a very short period of time!
I enjoyed this assignment for many reasons. I worked with a great partner, Meredith Diebler, who came up with some wonderful questions and suggestions. I loved looking back at pictures and creating a story about my childhood. I will definitely be sharing this with family, friends, and most importantly, my two daughters. I'm also looking forward to working with colleagues for the next four weeks, and collaborating on our group project.
For this project, we used google docs, texts and email to communicate. I was impressed with the ease of use of google.docs. It worked great as a collaboration tool for us to quickly ask questions and get answers. We also both used Photo Story 3 as our video editing tool. Again, I was pleased with the ease of navigation of Photo Story 3. I'll definitely be using Photo Story 3 for classroom projects, and have already started setting up a google doc for our campus 3rd grade team collaboration.
Melanie, I really enjoyed watching your video.You did a really great job. This was a fun week, learning how to make these videos. I hope the rest of the course is just as interesting and informing.
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