Below is a sneak peek into the inspiration behind what our group is planning to do for our movie making project. It was the best idea we ever had.


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But on a more serious note, I am liking the progress that our group has made in terms of figuring out our game plan and beginning to do a bit of filming. I think that we should be able to come up with something pretty good if we are able to actually do the editing the same way on the computer as we can in our imaginations. Hopefully early next week we can get the filming completed and begin to work with the editing software. I'm looking forward to it actually, mostly because we've been discussing maker spaces and learning through play all week in our Science Methods course, and it was something that I remember playing around with in my free time when I was younger. So it should feel good to pick up and play with again. It definitely will be better than making unit and lesson plans which I need to stop putting off.

Just a little blurb about our presentation by John Finch from Tuesday's class, I thought that he gave us some really good information that will be useful for us as educators in the future. It was actually sort of two mini presentations that he gave, one on copyright issues and one around literacy in ICT. I feel like I took a few things away from each mini presentation. Notables around copyright include that playing music in the gymnasium or in a classroom is copyright infringement unless it is for educational purposes, and that playing movies have to be directly related to education for everyone watching it (so students can't sit in on another class to watch the film) or else you are in copyright infringement; two things I did not previously know. With regards to literacy in ICT being taught to students, it just makes sense that it is now being stressed even more so. It was also nice to see the graphics he provided to relate the processes being used by students practicing these skills is not very different from the scientific process that I am more familiar with. I thought that John also had some good stories that kept everyone engaged on his presentations; it was obvious that he has given them a few times now. Actually, I think that I've taken at least one or two things away from every presenter we've had in ICT so far, which definitely is a good thing. But I am beginning to ramble again so I will end this there.. Or maybe here. Mm.. Back there was better. Stop reading, go back. Forget this ever happened. It's done now.