Digital Citizenship PSA

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The digital citizenship PSA was another great assignment for this class. First off, I enjoyed doing it because it was fun to videotape ourselves. Only a handful of students in our class had any prior experience with video editing. I have never edited a video before so this was a new concept to me. Before completing the assignment I understood that it was important and could be valuable to me in the future for teaching.

 Although blogging is useful, I am excited to know more about video editing because i have a good number of great ideas of how it can be incorporate into my science classroom. Ironically, today I was observing at Ben Franklin Junior High and the earth science teachers introduce the big weather prediction project. It requires students to save and interpret data for 4 days from the national weather map, write a script as if they were a weatherperson, use flip cams to film, and then create a weather segment using animoto!

Wow! Good timing for our 331 project! It is important for me to understand the applications and mechanics of using film in the classroom because then I will be able to help my students with their projects. Also I will need to be able to examine a potential lesson plan and detemine if using technology would be efficient and productive.

This project is a great way to teach us how we can use film in our classroom. Other projects I may want to use film for would be to have the students make a Discovery channel like program for an ecosystem project. It would be entertaining to see how the students could make their own Bear Grylls program! The students could make a stop animation of an environmental process over the quarter or year depending on how long the class is.

I have a ton of great ideas for new projects and with my newly acquired knowledge I can think of a effective ways to revamp some of my own favorite science projects i did in school.