Week 6--Thing 15 Week 7--Thing 17

I explored the storyboard tools first.  The one that would work best in my class would be the storyboard template that is available to print out because there are no computers in my room except my own.  I would rather have students plan out their work before taking them to the computer lab also.  I am wondering how much time should be allowed for students to film what they need to for videos.  I only see students for 50 minutes once a week so I feel that unless this project was in collaboration with other teachers this would take a big chunk of the semester to work on.  I think that it would be a positive learning experience for students to create a video along with you(the teacher) as well before they work on putting their own together because then they have some practice and can feel more confident in their skills before they jump in.

   As I am working on the movie in movie maker I find that I am spending a lot of time editing the movie.  Maybe it would be good to limit how much footage students can shoot so that they really focus in on footage they need to shoot.  Hopefully this way they will have less to go through when editing.  It was also kind of difficult deciding what to keep and what to cut.  I am planning on using the video I made for my Art before school group on Monday though so we will see how it goes.

   I used Audacity to go in and edit the music that I was adding to my movie.  This past week at school we used Audacity in the classroom to work on fluency also.  We recorded students as they were reading and they could go back and listen to how their fluency sounded this way students could hear where they were stumbling.  Then we brainstormed together about what could help them to read more fluently.

  I am currently having trouble getting my video to load.  I think it is because of my Internet connection so I will try again at a later time.