11 April 2013
Today we finished our commercial and worked on our rationale. We had to re-film a scene in our commercial because there was a grammatical mistake. We then edited in into the iMovie, checked if various times and added text to the beginning of the commercial. We showed it to Ms. Greer and after many checks we finally had no more obvious mistakes. With this we exported it and gave each of us a copy so we could each upload them to our blogs and we could have more than one just in case. We had a problem because there were no cameras left in the library, but we were able to solve it by filming with a Galaxy Tab. We then went into Google Drive and worked and revised our rationale. We will keep working on the rationale through Google Docs and will finally turn it in before Sat. at 5, completed.
What have I enjoyed about this style of learning?
What I enjoyed about this style of learning was being able to work freely, in groups and not sitting in a classroom. I liked how we did not have to sit still in a class for 90 minutes. We could work independently in order to get the work done. This unit was very productive but at the same more relaxed as we had to look over ourselves and not be a teacher.
What suggestions would you make to improve this process?
I have various suggestions for the improvement of this process. I think that in the library there should be a range of camera arranged for 9th grade, this way we won't have to film with tablets that do not reach the quality of a video camera. Separately, I believe that it would have been better if we were told that we only had to do one commercial since the beginning so we could have focused in only one to make it better. Lastly, that we could have had different teacher-reviews through out the process. However, with this exemptions the process was adequate.
Today we worked very cooperatively in the group. We were all focused and working so we could get the task done. We all collaborated in the editing and gave ideas for the rationale. I believe that overall in the project we all worked really well and were a productive Ad Team.
I agree with you about more teacher check-ins. Perhaps to schedule weekly or bi-weekly meetings with each team (at length) would be best. Perhaps more of the ATL could be based on this. I think it would help me to have a system for checking on students' progress. Personally, I felt like this was too much to manage between Google Docs, FB, moodle and... I would vote for all of us using one tool and learning it well.
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