Once again my colleagues have offered some great suggestions for helping me to achieve my GAME plan. Thank you to Jewel for pointing out that MovieMaker can also be used for audio slide shows, making it a good choice for digital storytelling; that information may come in handy for our upcoming assignment on developing a lesson with digital storytelling.
Thank you also to Christina, who recommended Avid Liquid in case I want to take video production to the next level. I have only briefly investigated Avid’s products, but they sound amazing. For anyone interested in more advanced video, this would probably be good to look into.
As I review the GAME plan I posted several weeks ago, it seems that some parts will be easier than I anticipated, but other parts will be trickier. Because our district has subscribed to My Big Campus, my students can now easily create wikis. They can even post on each other’s “walls,” very much like Facebook, but completely within the system. I will be trying this out in summer school, starting next week. So I am very close to achieving the first part of my GAME plan—using Web 2.0 resources to engage students “in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources” (ISTE, 2008).
The second part of my GAME plan—using virtual environments for learning (ISTE, 2008)—will be trickier because of Skype being blocked at school. My Big Campus does not seem to have a videoconferencing application. This is an area that will require additional planning and collaboration with our technology department. I believe we can eventually get some type of videoconferencing capability, but it may not be for a couple of years. In the meantime, I may concentrate on developing our use of video and video editing software since MovieMaker will be readily available.
References:
2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf
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