Movie Story

For the Movie Story assignment we used Movie Maker to to share a collection of photos from an event in our lives. The photos were to tell the story of the event. What I learned from this assignment was how to use Movie Maker. I got familiar with the software and the neat little things that it could do. I was really pleased with the way my movie turned out. What I liked about this project is that the instructor required us all to us a certain movie making software, Movie Maker. That is great strategy to use in a classroom, especially an elementary classroom.

In my AP English class senior year we were required to make a video, but the guideline were super lax; it could be however long, and we could use whatever software we wanted. Like most of my other classmates, I had never made a movie before. I was ignorant on all movie making software and techniques. When it came time to present, there were wide scale problems from about 45% of the class.

A sure fire way to cut through a vast majority of those problems is to have all the students use the same software. By using the same software, you, the teacher, will specialize in that software and be knowledgeable of all the features of that software when our students come to you with questions. Having mastery of 1 movie making software is so much more feasible than trying to maintain fundamental knowledge of multiple movie making software. This falls in line with the third NETS-T standard, to model digital age work and learning by demonstrating fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.