Ya move 16 tons, and what do ya get...(EDLD 5363 video blog)

...a sweet iMovie, that is!  I have never before worked with any multimedia production software band while I've always had a nack for technology and gadgets, I had yet to actually produce anything on the iMovie software that has been on my Mac's since the early 2000's.  I can handle web publishing, technology in the classroom, e-mail, etc. but iMovie seemed easy considering how many hilarious yet pointless videos my friends make for our classes in high school and for fun right?  Wrong!  iMovie and multimedia is a whole new ball game.  In EDLD 5363 my first multimedia project was to produce a digital storytelling project.  To guide us along the way we had two excellent online articles that helped us understand just what "multiple" media and story telling was all about.  The first article, entitled Think Tank, helped me understand how the human mind worked and in a nutshell (because you could take an entire graduate course on the material in this article alone) helped me understand how many multimedia elements needed to mesh as well as the environment to create in order to help my students learn.  Technology in the classroom should mean way more than just a repository for curriculum delivery.  The second article, entitled, The Digital Storytelling Cookbook, helped me understand the process that one could follow in order to choose an idea to tell a story.  In the end, my choice fell under the "what I do" category of stories to tell and I began my process of script composition.  I answered several questions about myself, and submitted the same questions to my partner so that he could do the same to help shape what I would write about.  Since I incorporate technology in my daily classroom lessons, I wanted that to be a large portion of my story as shifting from paper copies of everything and going digital with email, a wiki with class work, interactive websites for my students to use, etc. marked a shift in my teaching style.  I went from how I was taught Spanish to how my students were actually learning now with technology.  My script will be in my next post.  After my script was written I shot photos over the course of the day and used those to put together my iMovie.  I though I would like music but in the end decided to leave it out as I didn't want it to be a distraction to what I was saying.  Speaking of the script I am currently collaborating with four other Lamar students and we are reading each others first drafts to give suggestions an ideas and so far, so good! The web address for the video will be posted in an upcoming blog, shortly.