Monday, February 4, 2013

Week 2 : A bit late :)

Week 2 : late report...

Every Monday, us students have "didactic class" and we need to post a kind of weekly report on what we've learned... Janette was on time :)

Anyways, the topics we need to report on are Language improvement, Pedagogy, Use of technology and Collaboration
As Janette already answered all of them, I don't need to add anything I pretty much agree with all that she said :) I am not diligent enough with communicating, but I hope that this will get better !
We are trying to work out things as we slowly but surely get to know THE Project ! We're supposed to start this afternoon !!!!

I have a few words to say about the videos we watched last week though. 

We saw different types of videos that the students from last years had done. Some of the materials used for the videos were pictures, video, music, sounds, drawings, a voice reading what was written on the screen, text etc.
It was a first glimpse of what tools we could use for our own project, and it was interesting to see the work one by others on the internet ! I am sure of one thing : I really, really don't want to do a video without any voice reading the text. 
We watched a video entitled "the singing contest", I am both a visual an auditory learner so I understand the importance of considering the different learning characteristics of the audience. When one is missing it becomes harder to stay focus on the story. 
Therefore, for our project I hope to keep this point clear in mind : use video, pictures (in fact as much visual as needed...) then put an adequate music background or voice reading to it !
Oh, I almost forgot something, the story needs to have a clear goal or an interesting frame. We were kind of disappointed of the video. There seemed like there weren't any goal to it... 

Have a great day, and see you soon for some new adventures ;)


3 comments:

  1. Concerning the video viewed in class (the one realized by the previous students) I didn't like it! I found it quite boring because of the same grayish background. Though the comments and first plan character were lively the story didn't captivate my attention at all.

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  2. Interesting to note that Janette. Thanks for the opinion.
    I'm glad Cecile that you don't want to do a story without a voice. But some stories without voice can and be great stories too.... but yes, you will be required to use your voice for your story. Hope that reassures you ;)

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