Class Notes from June 1, 2005

Class notes from Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Major project ideas:

• New Digital Literacy Project
• Learn how to use Dreamweaver
• Learn how to use the built-in Flash elements that are included in Dreamweaver
• Will learn how to make buttons
• Set up a website where all the stuff done in Dreamweaver is displayed in this webpage
• Possibly go through an elementK module on using Dreamweaver and see how quickly it accelerates your learning of the software
• elementK is an online tutorial program designed to teach you how to use some applications
• Choose basic things to do and evaluate how you do on creating the elements
• Make observations and identify themes in your learning

Andrew:

• Make a 15 minute informational video to be viewed by people who are searching for a church, possibly looking for another church, or to get the church name out in the community
• Soundtrack will include background music (elevator-type music), voice-overs, extracted audio, etc.
• Essentially a mini-documentary

Suzanne:

• Question: How do teachers present images in the classroom?
• Video tape what is going on in the classroom when the teacher is presenting images in class
• Another idea is to investigate the assessment of concept maps
• • What are the differences in the students and their understanding when developing the concept maps?
  • Do students develop different schemas?

Sam:

• Virtual tour of library

Jeff:

• Work on doing a special type of editing to make a movie in Windows Movie Maker
• Follow the same line as Star Wars but add laser beams and special effects
• Introductory laser technique (aka "techgeek")
• Use a paint program and set up a sequence and use it to show a succession of images, stop-action
• Is there a role of stop-action as a technique for development of training for educational content for deaf education
• Another idea: Using ASL in a more natural form instead of something that is so staged

David:

• Media Cruiser prepares students to be...
• Digital/Visual literacy: capturing computer screens for training material
• How to avoid screen flicker
• Videotape an LCD screen and edit the content in iMovie or Movie Maker

Jennifer:

• Video for children/students to learn Microsoft Word
• Look at how others train on the same thing
• Basic techniques on using Microsoft Word

Morgan:

• Create an educational video about bullying
• Use video to show to a student assembly and it will outline and discuss the different types of bullying (not just the conditioned notion of shoving someone around)
• Think about how as a future teacher how to teach the making of student-produced documentaries on something (they choose the theme, the write the script, they do the filming, etc.)
• Build an exemplar or model for them to make their own video/project

Videography Test Review:

• Establishment shot - sets the context for the scene
• • The beginning sequence of The Sound of Music
  • Used as the beginning of a scene or movie to give a context of the setting
• Point-of-View shot - view of the character
• Two-shot - number of people in the shot
• Reaction shot - a reaction to the character action
• Cutting rate and rhythm - intensity (rate) and length of time (rhythm) of the shot
• Transitions - know about the different types of transitions
• Jump cut - used within the same scene and is instant, no dissolve/transitions
• Stock footage - footage that may be used later while using a voice over or other similar purposes
• Raw clip - the clip taken from an imported movie
• Processed clip - clip that has been edited and trimmed up
• Screen time - the time the characters experience
• Compressed time - reducing the time
• Direct sound - sound that is recorded with actors on the scene
• Studio sound - sound recorded over in a studio
• Voice-over - using a voice while showing other footage
• Soundtrack - the audio editing channel for sound
• Lighting angle - direction of lighting in which the resulting shadows are selected for dramatic or corrective effect
• Montage - sequence/juxtaposition tells the story; something that is organized deliberately and set to music
• Mise-en-scene - composition of the frame tells the story