Creating Videos

This was INCREDIBLY frustrating for me. I LOVED making the video. The boys and I had a great time. What I didn't anticipate was the spotty Internet service, and the inability to upload my video to my blog. Now we are in a real city and I am able to upload it.

I've learned a lot from this experience despite my frustration. One thing I've learned is that it takes a lot of time to up load a video. I understand the reason now of the importance of band with and quick up loading and down loading. As I was trying to upload my vidoe, I canceled the up load several times because I thought it wasn't working, when in fact it was just up loading so slowly, I didn't know it.

The second thing I learned is how much FUN it is to make a video. I used Windows Movie Maker and it was very easy to figure out how to put all the components together. I found the program very easy to use. I had used it in the past, but I never added music AND narration to a video. With a few random clicks, I was able to figure out how to lengthen and shorten the clips, mute the narration which eliminated the noise from the camera, and by mistake, I learned how to have both the original sound tack with music in the background. Adding the subtitles was very easy to do also.

The next thing I would like to try is combining both still pictures and video into a movie. I can see several ways to use this in the classroom by either making my own movies, or having the students make movies that illustrate concepts we are learning in class.

I hope you enjoy my video. Click on the link below to see a piece of my summer road trip!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mgzjmctqk4y