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EDLD 5363 Multimedia and Video Technology Jo Elda Cadena

Final Assessment: Course Reflection Responses 1. I expected this course to be heavy on video planning, editing and production as well as including some instruction on proper photography technique. In reflection, I do believe that these topics were addressed in the various elements of the course. 2. In school, I only work with static media for the most part. I teach Desktop Publishing and therefore, printed media is the focus, so the relevance to this Multimedia and Video Technology course is not there, but since I plant to eventually migrate to the high school level, I understand that this opens up a wider possibility of courses that I may be able to teach at that level. This is where I envision that concepts practiced and learned in this class will come into play. I currently have my students produce media for print such as brochures, calendars, postcards, flyers and banners. As you can see, this doesn’t lend itself to many opportunities for multimedia or video production, but my students do create an animation using Photoshop. This encompasses drawing a figure in Photoshop and then using Powerpoint for the animation. In that regard, some multimedia is used and I already have ideas on how I can incorporate others. 3. Outcomes that I did not achieve were in gaining experience in pc-based video and audio editing platforms. Through our article readings, I was able to theoretically see how applications such as Adobe Premiere, FinalCut Pro and Photo Story 3 worked, but my only real experiences involved those applications on the Mac platform. I used both an older and a newer version of iMovie for all of my video creation and editing for this class. Like many other modern households, we now have several computers. Many individuals have a designated “work” computer and this is usually a laptop. Students, at times, have their own computer which could be a desktop or a laptop. In my household two computers are pc-based and two utilize the Mac platform. The main desktop for the family and my laptop are the Macs that I do my coursework on and this is why I predominantly have this type of experience. 4. I was, for the most part, successful in completing the course assignments except that I tended to delay completing the ones that were not for immediate credit. This was due to a lackadaisical attitude on my part after completing my first school year here in a new city and school district for me. I was eager at first and jumped into our first assignment of creating and completing the personal digital photo story and even sought help from a professional friend of mine who provided me with permission to use his music for the music bed to my video. Thereafter, I began to get comfortable and assumed a lazy-summer attitude where I only did the minimum to get by. It wasn’t until the gearing up for the PSA with my group began that I emerged full force again. I also knew that my teammates were counting on me to do my part. The fact that I am knowledgeable about the Mac platform really aided our PSA team's decision to use iMovie for the creation and editing process of our PSA. 5. This course has taught me much about that I thought I already knew. (lol) I went into this class thinking that I was ahead of the game (and in some ways, I was). You see, in a previous school district where I taught at the middle school level, I was also a technology representative for the district. This meant that I was a trainer of trainers in the school district’s laptop initiative for teachers. I also taught colleagues advanced techniques on such software as Powerpoint, iMovie and video graphics and design. This did help me a lot for this course because when it came to the importing, editing and otherwise creation of our PSA, I was the go-to person on the team. I have a very new, fast iMac with the latest version of iMove and it was a no-brainer. My technology skills are well defined in the areas of video editing on iMovie and I believe I’m innovative enough to be able to apply the concepts learned in this course to other video editing software.