PE3_iMovie

Talk about a ton of good information! I am sure I will be going back to Lynda.com to watch several of those clips again, but I feel like I have agoodunderstanding of what I can do using iMovie.

The audio sections of the tutorial were very helpful to show how to get rid of background noise and make sure that all the clips are at the same sound level.

I know how frustrating it is when I am watching TV and as soon as the show goes to a commercial the sound is blaring. This is something I would like to avoid in my own videos. I loved that you can take audio from a different section of a video to play where one may n

ot have been the best quality.

There were so many things I want to try with iMovie now that I have watched all the videos. Although we are working on adding movies I really liked that there is a creative way to make a slideshow of pictures. I take a lot of pictures through the year and I typically make a PhotoStory of them at the end of the year to share. I think that iMovie is a bit easier to work, and has more options for me to post and share.

In my class we just finished an activity called The Chocolate Trade Game. All of the fourth graders were together in the gym pretending to be workerswho produce chocolate. Each group had different goals and jobs in order to try to make a profit. As I look back now I wish I had taken video of the kids working instead of just pictures. For now I have created a short slideshow of the kids working to use to reflect on the results of the game. Using iMovie will be a great way to look back at everything we have done, and for students to be able to get the big picture of their projects. It was a great learning for me as well to realize that taking videos will be a good way to add even more to our units.