Course+Reflection+Prompts

**Course Reflection Prompts**

1. What outcomes had you envisioned for this course? Did you achieve those outcomes? Did the actual course outcomes align with those that you envisioned? When learning our next course would be multimedia video technology, I know it would be a fun and interesting 5 weeks. I imagined I would learn all about using video in the classroom and creating videos myself. I also wanted to learn more about how videos are uploaded and downloaded from the internet. I Through the course I couldn’t believe I was able to edit my own short clip, add audio, include transitions, and even stick my very own credits at the end. I didn’t think it would be as interesting and invoke a curiosity in me. I also wanted to learn more about how videos are uploaded and downloaded from the internet. As I have watched several videos from youtube, I have never looked one up, they are always sent to me in a link. Just being able to understand YouTube in a deeper way has been a benefit to me. The actual couse outcomes went much father and deeper than what I had in mind, as they usually do! I am always amazed at how much I manage to take away from each course.  2. To the extent that you achieved the outcomes, are they still relevant to the work that you do in your school? Why or why not? I feel my work in this course is relevant to me being a teacher, because being able to work more with multimedia in any way helps me understand what my students are so interested in learning more about. To relate with our students we need to be knowledgeable about the things that they are passionate about. From my experience, I feel students like it when you take the time to learn about these things and pull technology into the learning environment. I can think of so many ways I can use my new knowledge of working, creating, and editing video in my classroom, helping my students extend their knowledge into a new form. This past year we created two different Photo Story projects throughout the year, and now I am equipped to take their interest in computers and multimedia to the next level, creating videos. I work with eight and nine year olds, so I will be anxious to see how easy or difficult using video in the classroom will be.  3. What outcomes did you not achieve? What prevented you from achieving them?  Through this course, I had hoped to shoot some of my own video. Several things got in the way of that happening. The first was that I do not have a video camera. I had hoped to borrow one from a family member or a friend, but I ended up out of town during the production week of the group project and could not get my hands on a camera that would also let me transfer the clips onto my computer. The second issue was when we split up the assignments during our planning time; it looked as if I was not needed to shoot any video. We had a wonderful group that worked so well together and quickly divided the tasks. The final reason I was not able to help in shooting the video was that the distance between our group members was too great. I would have loved to be able to work together in both the shooting and editing of the final project, but the distance proved to be a challenge for us. I do know that in my school I would be able to work in more of a collaborative environment.  4. <span style="font-weight: normal; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Were you successful in completing the course assignments? If not, what prevented or discouraged you? <span style="font-weight: normal; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-weight: normal; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Throughout the course, I truly enjoyed working on the assignments. Being somewhat of a perfectionist, looking back on my work, I find things here and there that I would love to change and make better. Reviewing my Photo Story project, there are parts of the script I would love to rewrite. I could not stand to hear my own voice and many of the phrases sounded much more exciting and intriguing in my head. <span style="font-weight: normal; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My work for the travel video for China created much stress and frustration. It was Monday, the day the assignment was due, before I was able to get any video clips downloaded onto my computer, I tried everything I could think of and for some reason, still unknown to me, I couldn’t get the option to download the files with the correct extension. The clips I did get looked more like still shots or pictures strung together. <span style="font-weight: normal; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Through it all, I was please with what I turned in and I know I do not need to be so hard on myself; after all, it was my first time to work with videos and to create a personal story. <span style="font-weight: normal; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-weight: normal; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">5. <span style="font-weight: normal; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What did you learn from this course: about yourself, your technology and leadership skills, and your attitudes? <span style="font-weight: normal; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-weight: normal; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Through this course, I learned that I really can edit videos. In high school, I was in the multimedia class that created an original new production for the school every week. Even then, I shied away from the editing and shooting of the video. I stuck to the things that were more comfortable to me, writing and being an ‘anchor’. In this class, I was forced to get behind the camera and edit some videos myself. I think I enjoyed it so much because I am a perfectionist and I had complete control to what clips made the video, when to cut it off, how to stretch a clip out longer, how to add sound, and even create credits. Honestly, just being able to figure all of that out, without anyone showing it to me, gave me more confidence in my technology skills than I thought I had. I think it showed me that I can take the time to learn new programs and applications in a deep enough way to help other teachers use them effectively in their classroom.