Reflection of Group Work for EDLD 5363

I tend to balk at group work and find that the work falls to the one or two responsible people who like to get ahead. Well, this entire process as a group was great from start to finish. Everyone wanted to get things done efficiently and excellently. We began sharing our brainstorm of ideas on google docs and then put our ideas into an outline and then into a script. Joey did the filming using iMovie and added a drop box so that we could all view each scene to make comments. Many small and some large changes were made in the filming that was decided collaboratively by sharing ideas on the google doc. After a final version of the film was created, I was able to edit the original script with a lot of input from Suzie so that no detail was left out.

I am pleased with our PSA, we are after all amateurs and with the time and constraint of a 60 second limit I feel we made a product that clearly articulates our point and is engaging. The only thing that may have been better is to have been able to do a split screen but we did not have the ability using iMovie to do this.

We did not have any copyrights that we had to use the music was not the real Twilight Zone music and was not copyrighted. The facts we used were referenced in a slide at the end to give credit where credit was due.

One again our team worked well together, like a well oiled machine and I would be delighted to work with all of them again in a future course if that was need. Thank you to Joey, Suzie, Maria and Angelia! You all are the best!

EDLD 5363 Web Conference Week 5 Reflection

I have been working with a wonderful group of talented people. Our PSA is almost complete thanks to the diligent filming and editing of our group. All we have left is to update our script, add some credits and to determine our creative domain. I was looking forward to tonight's web conference to make sure we had the lastest information of what was due and when.

The web conference was very informative. Dr. Abernathy shared that there has been some difficulty with the EPIC courseware and the course relfection questions cannot be located. She has graciously agreed that we will not have to complete that portion of this weeks assignment which lessens the burden of work considerably.

She clearly told us the three major tasks we have this week. They are as follows:

1. Finish revising the pre-production information and get it up to date with our actual video.
2. Make sure to submit our google doc to our IA
3. Upload our PSA to YouTube and embed it into our wiki

I can see the finish line and it will be great to have all our hard work done just in time for Christmas break.