EDLD 5363 – Week 4 and 5 Reflection

During the final two weeks of the course, our collaborative video project was completed.  AS a group we worked together to create and finish our video.  From our script and shot list we were able to shoot our video.  I took video of my father’s bee hive to accumulate the majority of the video footage.  I also, took video of my garden, a local farm field, and bumble bees.  Jennifer Wilkin Colvin took footage of herself placing honey into tea and Lisa Breaux recorded additional footage of bumble bees.  Lisa Breaux recorded the narration audio for the project.  I recorded bees bussing to add to the video.  Michelle Tidwell, Jennifer Wilkins Colvin, and Lisa Breaux did the majority of the editing of the video footage I recorded.  They cut the clips down and synched them to the narration by Lisa.  The shot list and script was also refined in these weeks.  Once the final video was competed, I did a slight adjustment of the background music and uploaded it to YouTube.  The process was very educational, especially the use of WeVideo.  It was a great site to use for the purpose of collaboration because we could all upload our video and audio resources to one place and all work on the project together.  As a whole, my group worked well together and we were able to easily complete our project ahead of schedule and complete the remainder of our group based activities for the week.

EDLD 5363 - July 1st Web Conference Reflection

During the web conference on Sunday, July 1^st, Dr. Abernathy discussed several items.  The majority of the conference focused on what needed to be done to complete our group videos for week five.  We need to have our tables and schedules up to date and upload our final video.  We also need to decide what type of copyright we want to have on our video.  She said that the length can go over the 90 second time limit to include credits and references.  She stressed the importance of updating our collaboration documents to reflect the participation of all group members.  During week five we also need to complete a summery of our progress for our internship plan and research projects.  We will not be graded on what we have done, but this is just to let them know where we are in our internship.  Dr. Abernathy also said that there will not be a discussion board for week five.  She finished the conference by letting us know that the ISTI Conference will be in San Antonio, TX next summer and let us know about graduation next year and how it will be conducted.