Development and Media
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Development Resources - my hope one day is to thorough know how to record, edit, and digitize video of student projects and performances and put them on our school's website. To me this sounds like a daunting task, since I really don't have much experience working with editing software. My school does have a digital video camera, and Imovie software for editing, and server space for it. I just need to know what steps to take to implement the process.
Guest Speaker Rick Langlois gave me a keen insight on where to start with the multimedia planning process. His concept of plan, plan, plan really hit home. I have so many times just jumped in and started, not thinking about what tools my students would need, hoping to figure out time and resources as multimedia projects progressed. This is probably the reason why my multimedia projcts have been completed, but the quality lacked because the students were not required to plan.
Anyway, the site I found as a resource is from Webdeveloper.com. If you click here, you can link to it. This webdeveloper site contains over 7 pages of information, ranging from suggestions on whether to use MPEG, AVI, or MOV formats, to applications for video and audio recording and editing. Many of the applications were new to me, so it will take some time to check them all out. In addition, I'm a mac person, and this site also addressed which apps work exclusively with windows based machines. In all, I was thoroughly impressed with the webdeveloper site. It will be a resource I will look to in the future.
District Support - as for any type of district support for my projects and ideas, I can come to them as needed with questions. Currently, my district is in the process of many technical reformatting projects: updating school servers and security systems. This puts teacher support low on the pole. The district also has a web site that discusses technical support and teacher inservices. It can be found here, but when I checked it last, it had some pretty old information. It had not been updated since 1998 and had the previous tech director listed as the contact. As for support within my buiding, Laurie Jacob is the specialist. She has been very helpful with some multimedia planning, but is often not available to meet with teachers before or after school to plan. She is only at school part time to help raise her son. This means that support within my building and district are currently at a standstill.
Problem Solving - the support not being there to learn how to video edit and plan, I search the net to see what kind of resources I could discover. Here's what I found.
The first site is from the Imovie site at Apple. Here Apple has created a brief tutorial for new users, like myself. The page dicussed what you need to do before you actually begin recording, other planning ideas, editing features, inserting titles, transitions, and something the author Harry Marks calls The Importance of Black. I found this site a must see for what I want to do.
My next site is the actualt results of a creator like myself. This individual created a digital postcard of their Christmas trip and used Imovie to plan, edit, and publish it all. The author also was kind enough to include her planning sheets and some of her own editing tips. The web site can be found here.
last updated 6.9.2000