EDLD+5363+PSA

media type="youtube" key="b2HXL4A-aw8?fs=1" height="385" width="480" I was a little wary upon finding out our assignment for weeks 3-5 consisted of working in a group to create a public service announcement. I feel I work better on my own since I sometimes work backwards. My group consisted of Megan Perello, Sharon Liles and Katrina Gonzales. We had actually looked ahead during week 1, discovered we had to work in a group and created our group at that time. Our first interactions occurred through email and that seemed to work for a while. We then moved to Skype. My group members were familiar with it but it took me a few minutes to become comfortable using it. This avenue allowed us to collaborate with more efficiency. We also continued to use email and a wiki page set up specifically for our PSA. Our pre-production seemed to go by quickly. We threw out ideas but eventually we all decided upon encouraging the use of 21st century technology in the classroom. It did not take us long to each arrive at the shots and pictures we wanted to use. We planned to have them to our editor by the end of the week. We also decided to upload it to Youtube.com since we all had found it the easiest web delivery site. It seems all of us had trouble uploading to Teachertube.com at some point. It was not easy for me to arrive at obtaining my videos. I wanted to make sure I used other angles rather than from directly head-on so I discussed various angles with my mentor (who is also our campus instructional technologist). I must have shot at least 30 minutes of video and then had to edit it down to maybe 10 to 15 seconds. Whew! That was tough. Then we came to the difficult part-sending it to our editor. After many emails, Sharon found a video converter that was free and easy to use. Megan was ready to roll! Well, after she took her math certification test. Once she was done, we viewed the video and made comments and suggestions. We then decided to add music. I had already gone through various songs on freeplaymusic.com so by sending emails we chose one of my suggestions. The PSA above is our finished product and I am pretty proud of it.