Category: EDCI352

Implementing videos within a lesson plan is certainly a way to keep the pace of the lecture dynamic and not purely dependent on lecture notes or listening to the instructor. While ready to use videos are widely available throughout the internet, making your own videos for lesson purposes using Open Educational Resources might prove more of a time consuming challenge than is worth the effort. Of course I am biased in this claim as I found the iMovie exercise embarrassingly frustrating. I say embarrassing because I can appreciate how user friendly the interface is designed to be which only fuels my frustration when I find I’m not comprehending the tools as fast as I should be. Aside from the time it takes me to become adept at such programs, I have so far found that the free videos for backgrounds and green screens to be… limited? If limited is not the right word then perhaps my hesitation rests on what the purpose would be of a video I create using green screens and backgrounds – aside from showing how to use green screens and backgrounds. It should be evident that I am already limited by my own creativity at the moment which I fully suspect will shed away the more I engage with these tools. At the moment I can envision more utility with Screencastify, especially as it concerns demonstrating how to navigate the exact tools I’m currently having difficulty mastering. Perhaps what I find will be most helpful is to teach students Screencastify so that they might make me a master of the various video and audio editing software available.