As
you know, my main goal in my GAME plan at the moment is to find more
information about the most reliable software to do videos for my
students. I have been looking for information about the several
choices I was given in my last post. I have picked two particularly,
Windows Movie Maker and AVS Video Editor. I decided to pick only two
because that will give me time to evaluate both and I would not be
overwhelmed with the information.
To
find more information about my video research, I submitted a
discussion post in www.classroom20.com,
and I read some of the information available in this site about
videos. I am still waiting for responses about that matter, and this
week I will use another PLN to find answers and suggestions. I even
watched some samples of students' work. Watching those samples gave me more ideas about the things my students could do with videos in the
classroom.
I
worked with Windows Movie Maker using a video I had already saved
from my Mom's digital camera. I found the features really easy to
work with, especially when adding titles into the video. The only
feature I could not find was to cut scenes in the video already
taken. If someone knows how to do this, let me know. I really like
this particular software because is use- friendly and very easy for
the students to use. Besides, it provides so many options in effects,
font, colors, and titles positions throughout the movie that I am
sure it will help students to develop and express their creativity
when doing their own videos.
Working
with AVS Videos was a little of a burden. I am still working on it.
It is kind of hard to find all the features and what they can do,
and, at times, there is not even a certainty that it is doing the
given command. For example, I wanted to trim a little section of the
video, and, even that it showed it did it, when I played the video,
it presented the part I wanted to eliminate. I am still working on it
because I got somehow frustrated with it. It could be a good
resource, but I would have to learn more about this software. The
advantage Windows Movie Maker has over AVS Videos is that the first
one is free.
My
next step will be to find more information through Diigo and
Delicious. I have not done this step because of lack of time.
Besides, I need to learn to use these resources as something else as
bookmarking sites. I have no idea of how to use them to find
resources.
So
far, with what I have done and I am planning to do, I do not believe
I will need to change or modify my action plan. Now I am more curious
about what can students do using videos because the concept I have
about them is still very limited. I
would need to find sample videos done by students to expand my
concept about it.