5x5 video challange

2. a. Driving to hockey practice.
    b. Getting out of the car.
    c. Walking into the rink.
    d. Chilling with teammates.
    e. Getting ready in the locker room.

3. Originally my plan for my 5x5 was to use footage of animals in my yard, but I shot that on my dad's video camera, and I counldn't figure out how to get that footage into the editors.  Eventually I decided I would have to abandon that and use a small soni point and shoot with a video feature.  I filmed my ride to hockey practice and edited it when I got home.  I used the Wevideo editor, which was pretty easy and efective.  I caught a couple snags trying to figure out how to get my footage into the editor, but I discovered some helpful video tutorials that I watched.  The last problem is that I still can't figure out how to embed the video in my blog.

4. I think my 5x5 has turned out alright, although next time I think I should do a test run with the camera before I shoot the real footage.

3rd blog post assignment

I read "World Without Walls: Learning Well With Others" for our "What do you want to learn more about?" assignment.  Here's what I thought:

1. The article first tells a story about an 11 year-old girl who has created a community service minded organization that gets it's ideas from the readers of her blog.  The author, Will Richardson, then discusses the new age that we live in.  He calls it the Collaboration Age.  He thinks that schools and teachers need to embrace social media and other online forums or learning centers.  He thinks that teachers should be the connectors to knowledge for the kids, not the sole supplier of it.  He concedes that there are safety issues, but he says that for the kids of today, having classrooms that utilize social media and the internet is a necesity.

2. "Welcome to the Collaboration Age, where even the youngest among us are on the Web, tapping into what are without question some of the most transformative connecting technologies the world has ever seen." This quote really embodies the message of the article.  Richardson says that the age we live in is helping us to collaborate, not making us socially inept like some people would argue.  He also mentions that even the youngest of us are tapping into the web, which is one of the, "most transformative...technologies the world has ever seen."

3. I found it surprising that Richardson, who says he is a teacher himself, is so critical of the tradition methods of teaching, and wants teachers to simply help kids acccess the information that is out there, not try and relay all that information directly to them. 

4. I think that utilizing blogging and the internet is very important, and connected learning definetley has a place in CAP, but I also think hands on learning is equally important, and that cannot be overlooked.

5. I am interested in TV studio production, using the headsets and switchers.  I think hands on learning is more important when it comes ot TV production. 

Link to annotated article

Moive Review

Finding Drama in Newfangled Movie Making by A. O. Scott

This movie review is about a documentary on newfangled and new high-tec equipment. It is published by The New York Times. The review starts with the writers opinion on the movie, which is very complimentary. He then details the elements of the plot, but doesn't give away to much, partially because it's a documentary. He doesn't talk very much about cinematic aspects, although the movie itself is about movie making. It is a casual and excited tone that makes the reader want to go and watch the movie.

I think that our movie reviews should be more free form. We should have to include a section on each of the three aspects of film, but other than that we should be able to focus on a basic plot summary and what we liked and didn't like. We can also include a section on how we could use some of the movie's cinematic techniques in class.

My annotated review

Hi, I'm Max.  I am a 10th grader in the CA Program at Blair HS.  Outside of school I play hockey a lot. I've been playing since I was 7.  I play on a travel team that plays four times a week and on Blair's team which plays twice a week.  I also tutor have tutored a 2nd grader in reading for the past 3 years.  I am very interested in TV studio film production, and a little interested in video editing.  My experience in video is limited to the class that I took 2nd semester last year.  My two favorite video projects that I have done have both been in the studio.  One was an Interdisciplinary project in which we filmed short movie reports as if they were news programming.  It was my first experience with working on head sets, with the "switcher," and video graphics.  My next favorite project was just a couple weeks later in the news studio.  We created fake news shows and filmed them in one day.  In these two projects I got to be the director, technical director, camera man, audio manager, talent, and floor manager.  I think a couple ways we can use the blogs this year are:

• We can use the blogs to share information for group projects.
• We can post ideas for new film projects on the blog and Mr. Mayo can read them.
• We can use it to turn in homework so that we can save paper and not have to worry about losing our homework.
• We can post questions that we have about homework or projects and classmates or teachers who see it can answer the questions.

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