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Week 2 : Evaluation of Video Software

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Evaluation of Windows Movie Maker Week 2: EDLD5363 Katrina Powell

This week was a good challenge for me because as a former science teacher I had not used many video editing programs for the classroom. However, in college I had to create a short movie, edit and narrate it so this was a walk down memory lane too. I took on a new apprecitation for the art of video editing after reviewing more of the options provided to us through this week’s readings. “Editing software comes in all flavors, from free, online editing software you can use anywhere, to editing software that costs thousands of dollars and requires a powerful computer”(Siegchrist,G (n.d).

It was during my third year of teaching when I became familiar with Podcasting and took a course during the summer offered by a fellow teacher and friend. She went through the material so fast that I essentially felt afraid of using it in the classroom that year until I had time to play with it and learn more so I started surfing through various sites other than ITunes for science related podcast. I took some of those and then also turned to the world of streaming video/clips for classroom use to from [|http://discovery.com]. My students seemed to really catch on to the idea that technology was now going to be apart of our classroom. They thrived as well as my self

I chose to evaluate my ability to use Windows Movie Maker that is loaded on my computer. I have not ever used this program but once I played with it and watched how user friendly it was; in no time I had it down. I don’t typically place videos on my lap top that I use for school/ grad work, so I looked at a few online and then went to a resource in the My Video file and three clips and put them together to form a movie. I learned that I could take easily import the short clips with sound attached and place them on a storyboard to make them into one short movie. There were editing tasks available that allowed me to go a couple steps further and create transition slides with either my audio or typed content. Once I had a short movie I could completely see me taking it to a teaching level in the science classroom or in front of other educators as a technology class The task was fun and not as intimidating as I had felt it would be.

I could see myself educating teachers on using such software as Windows Movie Maker or Apple IMovie to utilize for the classroom as a teaching tool or even for student use. Two reasons as to why I would recommend them both: First, they are both free and user friendly. Second, my youngest niece who is now a seventh grader stood over my shoulder while I created my video clip and she actually enjoyed learning it and then I even let her dabble some herself and she caught on very quickly. If that is not enough convincing!

Reference:

Siegchrist,G.(n.d). Top 7 video editing software programs. Retrieved on April 12, 2009, from []