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Okay, so I have learned many things from this class that will be useful to me in the future. Honestly, I do not think that there is one thing that we've learned that I won't have a use for. Some of the projects that I had really like were: Inspiration, Filamentality, Newsletters, and i Movie. These thing will make teaching a lot easier and supplemented for better understanding. It will also make learning a lot easier for the children. This will help the information be able to be conveyed in a nice, clear, and organized manner. Especially things like the i Movie project and the data base program. The i Movie can help wether it's to help me teach a lesson or if its for the students to do a project. The database assignment can help to track and organize your students and classroom. There was just so much good info that we have learned that it is hard to point it all out!!

Improvements... I'm not really sure that there are any. The only thing that I can think of is maybe changing the class so that the assignments can be due before class rather than the night before @ 11:30 pm. Sometimes there has been times where I get off work and I am rushing to get the assignments done. Other than that I really enjoyed this class and I can honestly say that I have learned a great deal. How sad :( it's over!!!

i Movie

I thought that learning i movie was an awesome tool to further use in my teaching career. I had never done this before. This was the neatest thing to me that you can actually go back and edit what you filmed and change things around into different sequences. In the end the video looks so professional. My group really did not run into and filming problems. We really did not run into any problems until we started editing. When we started editing it was then when we had problems with the clips and the subtitles and the timing. It was definitely a learning experience.

After reading the article "Splicing Video into the Writing Process" it made me relly understand how the filming and editing are similar to the process that you must go through during the writing process. For instance there is the preproduction step in filming which s similar to the Prewriting step and then there is the Production part in filmin which is similar to the drafting step in writing. I think that the thought process is the same it's just the end product that is different. I could definitely see myself incorporating this type of project into my classroom. There is just so much learning going on. This is definitely in my opinion a higher way of teachin and learning.