I want to live here!

This movie was filmed by myself and edited by iMovie. The movie is primarily video feed with a couple pictures from the internet. iMovie is an easy program on Apple computers that you can add and edit videos to create a movie. The video is about a family that is not happy with where they are living. They decide to research information about a place they found in a magazine. They decide to move and an old friend calls and wants to come for a visit. The movie is simple but cannot be understood without any sound. The movie is all narrative so you need to listen to the movie while you view it.

Editing the movie took the least amount of time because I have already made a five minute movie for another class. The hardest part of making the movie was trying to find time to film it in the sun. I did have help with the video from a classmate by acting in the movie with her children.

The tools that I used could be easily integrated in the classroom. iMovie, is easy to understand but would need a couple of days to be taught to the students. That would be the only drawback to using iMovie in the classroom. To integrate just the video recording part of this assignment to your classroom would be easy. Students could record their family at home on a camcorder, camera, or even a cell phone. Most elementary students these days have recorded some type of video already.

Making this movie was hard work and took up a lot of time . Although the work was not hard, it was just long tiring. I hope to integrate the technology use that I learned from doing this assignment in my class one day, after hours of teaching my students how to effectively use these tools.