The following are two short video projects that I either made or had a part in making. The first is a project with fellow teachers in the Palo Alto Unified School District where we experimented with the technique of creating a basketball trick shot. We used the guide from Klutz's Tricky Video book to shoot and edit the following video.
I have definitely always loved the power of videography to tell a story. From movies like The Matrix, Star Wars, and Inception; TV shows like 24, Designated Survivor, and The Black List; and family films, videos have a wonderful way to express feelings, grab your attention, take you on an emotional rollercoaster, and more.
The following are two short video projects that I either made or had a part in making. The first is a project with fellow teachers in the Palo Alto Unified School District where we experimented with the technique of creating a basketball trick shot. We used the guide from Klutz's Tricky Video book to shoot and edit the following video.
Two years ago, I had the pleasure of spending Christmas at Disneyland and California Adventure and created the following video all on my iPhone 6 and iMovie on my phone. It was fun to manipulate the speed of some clips.
I am constantly working on improving my videography skills. Are there books, resources you would recommend for me to check out as I continue to learn more?
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Today, the last workday of 2016, was a day full of closing up projects, celebrations, and preparing for 2017. Even though it was a half day of work, it sure felt like a full day's work. Of the projects I brought to a close or at least a stopping point before winter break, they included preparing print shop orders of student booklets for round two of PAUSD's Elementary Math Adoption Pilot process and preparing participant packets for February's PD Day focused on the Next Generation Science Standards. I also spent some time continuing my work designing the 2017 Elementary Summer School program and working on a special STEAM project with PAUSD's AAR program.
In the midst of all the work closing out the year of 2016, I had the pleasure of experiencing a coding party and a BreakoutEDU game. Kristi Van's third graders had a special time building obstacle courses and coding Sphero robots to go through the courses (or more like destroying the courses).
In the afternoon I had the pleasure of watching Valerie Sabbag's fifth grade class beta test my BreakoutEDU game. It was the one I wrote about a month ago and just posted on the previous blog post. What a wonderful experience because the students really worked hard at solving the puzzles and also showed me ways I can improve my game. There was one "color it on the hundreds chart" puzzle for the direction lock that I left the answers on the sheet. As the game started and a student pointed that out I quickly took the paper and cut the answers off so the group of students could still work on solving the puzzles. I felt embarrassed that I missed that mistake but the class was super understanding and encouraging as they said it was fun to be the beta testers of my game. Needless to say, it was such an amazing way to end the last workday of 2016.
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