Post#12

Jason Gaylord
April 19, 2009
M-W 1/2:15
Educ 422, McCulloch

The themes my group talked about were focused on the way that we could make a short video that was easy to understand and fun and exciting. Because we were all interested in the humanities, we wanted to focus on a video that was a little more Hollywood and historical than the other subjects that we could have chosen to have done. The creative process had only lasted about a class period and the actual shooting of the film an hour and a half. I am satisfied what we got done. It was very efficient and done well. I felt good about the whole thing. We chose the battle of Iwo Jima to give students a good grasp about the major battles that took place on the South Pacific. We also decided to print the movie in black and white to give it a more fitting feel.

Post #11

Jason Gaylord
April 13, 2009
McCulloch

I learned in the Wiki assignment that it can be harder than I thought working in groups and not being able to communicate with partners other than through the internet. Also I learned how it important it is that the Wiki be informative and easy to access for teachers who want to use the site. I personally did the helpful sites list. It was really informative looking up the sites and figuring out which sites would be helpful and easy to access for teachers to use. As far as the group work was concerned, it was very compartmentalized, so I did not really get to do the other work. I still think, however, that I got a good understanding on what it takes to make a wiki site.