PSA Reflection

Planning and producing our PSA took a few sessions of meetings to accomplish. We initially met in a sort of brainstorming exercise as what to do our PSA on and then met more formally to put together a storyboard. We discussed a number of ideas and came up with a general concept for what we were going to do. We then did a bit of research on the topic to get some basic strategies to promote with our PSA. The actually night of shooting we met up and worked through the script and adapted it to the capabilities of our equipment. Shooting did not take too much time because we had a pretty good plan for what we wanted to do. The act of editing the film also was pretty easy to accomplish. I had some experience with iMovie in the past, but it had been since high school since I had worked with. Getting used to the new features took some time, but since we had a good idea of how we wanted the final product to look it was just a matter of putting together the clips and record the voiceovers from our script. Overall this project I thought was fairly easy and did not take that much effort to accomplish.

Creating and sharing a PSA with peers impacts my future teaching by reacquainting me with iMovie again and reminding me how easy it is to edit video, by doing so it makes me more likely to use this tool in my future classroom. I think that because many students today grew up around Youtube and a lot of web based video sharing; they may be more inclined to be interested in a project if they were allowed to use video. I think by doing this assignment it gets into the thinking mode that using video is really creative way for students to present information. In addition, I think that this gives further practice on the idea I want to try some day of putting together a video lab guide, with lab procedures done in full for students to watch to learn a procedure and reference as they are in lab.