film showing

I really enjoyed class yesterday. Overall each group did a great job on the videos. Needless to say, each group created an informative film. What i liked best was how each group brought something different to their videos which made for an enjoyable viewing experience.

Like Sam said, Group 2 incorporated the film application techniques wonderfully. Plus, because their film flowed smoothly the message they were trying to convey was quite obvious and well received. They chose an important topic (internet, politics, the election) because of its relevancy to today, especially with our election less than 10 days away.

The third group i unfortunately can't say much about...sorry guys. I was in the process of creating the youtube.com username for the class, so my viewing was limited, but i did listen. Judging by what was discussed in their video, i can only imagine some great images etc will follow...I'm excited to watch their video on youtube.

I enjoyed the last groups video as well. It was nice to hear about gamer theory especially because i have not exactly gotten too far into the book and i was slightly confused by it already. The last group effectively incorporated images, sounds, film techniques etc. to convey a certain tone to the class. It was a great film to end on.

I had a lot of fun working on this project. It was great to choose an area of research and report back on it with a movie. In the beginning i didn't realize we had to relate our findings to Rebooting America, but doing so was helpful for me. I already had a decent understanding of the readings in the book, but using points from it in our movies helped tie everything together for me.

This was a very successful project for me...I think i actually learned more through this entire video process than i would if we had written a paper. Professor Dean could have just been like "okay everyone, write a paper comparing your findings with Rebooting" but she wanted videos instead, which i am happy about. Even though we weren't writing a paper we still had to do just as much research to make our videos informative for everyone. PLUS, we learned how to make videos, something we would have missed out on had we written papers instead. This assignment was a large learning process. Professor Dean let us choose what to research. We chose what we wanted to learn about. I researched the things i had questions about and found answers...another process of learning. I worked with my peers (in my group)...we had to collaborate our ideas, and teach one another about our specific findings. We had to learn how to make videos and some of us had to teach the process to the class...another example of peer to peer learning. The film day = informative...i walked away learning new and interesting ideas...yet another process of learning. This assignment encompassed the many themes of learning we discussed the first few classes in the beginning of the semester. The set up of this assignment allowed for an effective learning process to take place.


-Adrienne