So I put together a basic video about how rockets work as part of an assignment and post it to youtube. One of the requirements was that the video be roughly 1 minute in length... so my explanation is VERY basic. It does, however engage a younger viewer to consider the concept. If I was teaching the subject in my own classroom, I would make a longer introduction video to expand on a few parts to engage a viewer more deeply (hopefully). I was pleased with how it turned out and several family members were impressed with what they saw (but they're supposed to say nice things, so who knows?).
All of the educational stuff aside, I have a greater appreciation for how long it takes to edit and produce a movie. I think I spent more time: trying to get the scenes to mesh together appropriately, matching voice over to images in a logical way (as well as marveling at that sound of my own recorded voice... do I really sound like that?); picking a decent soundtrack song that would accentuate the mini-movie and not over power it: getting the credits to appear appropriately, etc.The nice thing is that the Movie Maker software has a lot of nice little tools that help you manage all of those things and more. I just wish it let you import youtube footage into your movie, but obviously there is a whole legal side to that with potential plagiarism issues and all. I'm sure there must be a way to do it and give credit, but that was beyond the scope of what I needed to do at the time.
Overall though, I am finding a lot of very useful technology tools for education that I know I am going to try to use. Of course, by the time I'm in my own classroom, much of the technology will have changed in some manner or another, but I'm confident that I can keep up and adapt to whatever changes occur.
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