Movie Magic

What an experience! Creating a movie was such a great learning experience for me. I was really hesitant about doing it because I am so intimated by new technology, but luckily it was fairly easy. I had some trouble, but not a whole lot. My movie is really a minute long, but for some reason it shows over 2 minutes. I don’t know why and I haven’t figured out how to fix it, but maybe I will figure it out soon, so just ignore that black space at the end please.

The movie above is formulated from my unit question “How can I express my thoughts and ideas with others? I was given many tools to make the movie happen. Let me tell you about a few of these tools that are available to use. I used Window Movie Maker to make this movie. It was already on my computer, so I just had to click on it to get started. It was fairly easy to import music, images and video onto it. It allows you to add effects, transitions to your movie to add a finishing touch. The effects and transitions really make your movie come alive. I also used FreePlayMusic, which is a tool to access music. They had many songs to pick from and I picked great background music for my movie. This tool is available online and you are able to download the music onto Movie Maker by importing it. Very user friendly! Another tool I used was Audacity, which is a software program for recording and editing sounds. This software lets you edit your sounds they way you want them to sound. There are different versions of this software, so you have a lot to pick from.

This experience taught me a lot. I really enjoyed viewing everyone else's movie. People got really creative. I really liked Sarah's movie because it was so funny. I commented on her movie and gave her some more ideas on what else she can use in the future.I hope to use this technology in my future classroom. I would love to share this with my students because this is something I know they will love. This takes learning to the next level and incorporates so much. I know that new technology is scary, but you will never learn it till you get your feet wet. I have definitely learned that! All of these tools can really bring magic into the classroom. Give it a try!