This week Isabella and I finally made a decision about the concrete shape for our digital literacy project. Isabella’s vision for the project is a slide show about crew that contains pictures, videos, and her voice over. While I was on Spring Break, Isabella interviewed her crew teammates at Poughkeepsie High School and will bring in those interviews and photos of our team for our next meeting. In the mean time, we looked up photos and videos of famous rowing icons and coaches. Isabella plans to give some biographical information about these figures and talk about how they have inspired her. Because Isabella found most of the information about the rowers and coaches online, we talked a little about credible Internet sources. As she continues her research next class period, I hope to talk to her a little more about citation. I think I will show her some examples. My personal favorite online resource for citation standards is the Purdue Online Writing Lab.
While Isabella looked up inspirational rowers and coaches, I got a brief tutorial from Baynard on how to capture YouTube videos so that I can use them in iMovie. I used a program called Snapz Pro X. The program is really easy to use and is on all the computers in the Digital Media Zone – all you have to remember is control-shift-3. Here is a link to one of the videos I captured for Isabella’s project:
I’m excited to see how our project will take shape next session now that we have some material to work with. I hope that Isabella and I can work on her narration so that we know what she wants to say about each image and video.