Now, I am proud to say that I am finally done my video! Well, aside from a few minor changes that is. However, I am done the main portion of my project, and it feels great! Basically, over the last week, I made a lot of progress. I finished my video, made my rubric, made a peer review form and collected feedback, and started making my Prezi (for the final presentation). I'm excited to finish it up!
To start, I finished making my entire Windows Media Maker Movie. I decided to redo the whole video from scratch, but I had the old video to use for reference. I made this decision because I had a lot of things to change, and I didn't like what I had created overall. Believe it or not, this time the video did not freeze up and the audio was synced with the video- I didn't need to use iMovie after all. This was a huge relief considering that I didn't have a Mac laptop at home. By now, I had learned so much about this software and how to use it. I applied many of the skills and techniques I had taught myself- transitions, animations, adding music, adding text, adding credits, and so on. While watching the completed video, I was so proud- my hard work definitely paid off!
The next step was making the rubric. Basically, we had to make a rubric, and the teacher would evaluate our project according to it. I decided to do a draft on paper, then edit it and type it out. Soon, I realized making a rubric was pretty hard and required a lot of thought! First, I looked around on the internet to find some sample rubrics. Then, I found a format I liked and wrote down some of the techniques they used to create their rubric. Next, I made a list of the areas I would cover in my rubric- pre-planning, process, product, peer review, presentation, and reflection. Then, I decided the key elements of each subtopic and created my rubric. It took a good two days to come up with an effective rubric. Before, I believed marking was such an easy task, but now I was proven wrong. There is a lot of thought and effort that goes into creating marking criteria, for sure!
After that, I made my peer review form. In my opinion, this was simple. I typed up ten relevant questions regarding my video and how it could be improved, referring back to my proposal specifications. Then, I made a list of potential people I could gather feedback from. Even though I only needed five peer reviewers, I added a few more to the list in case some people weren't able to complete the form. I shared my video on Google Drive. I asked ten people, and I received eight completed forms. Four of these peer reviewers were from our class. I think I collected my peer review effectively and successfully, and now all I had to do was apply my feedback to the video.
Finally, I started making my presentation on Prezi. I planned the format out first, and I am still in the process of finalizing the Prezi.
I plan to present some time next week, and I will soon put a finalized version of my video on this blog!
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