My Educational Philosophy

I am taking a class called "Digital Storytelling" and this is a an assignment that I made about my educational philosophy. I made the short video using i-movie on an Apple computer and used my pictures from i-Photo. I didn't have any video at the time and had a lot of pictures of students, some were outside shots of students when we went on cultural relevant trips and others taken from my cooking class.  It was a challenge to learn how to use the i-movies software program.  The whole project of putting the movie together was challenging. I had to learn how to import pictures, music, and then I had to limit the timing of the piece. It was a little frustrating at first, but once you learn the basics it becomes easy. I just had to learn how to manipulate the program to produce my movie. I enjoyed making this video and just used pictures to complete the assignment and I am excited to take the process of making a short i-movie into my classroom.

I know the students will like making projects like this in school. I already see them using it other classes. So it wouldn't be hard for me to incorporate my students using this program.  I could use it in my Geography class and have them do a report on a country and have them get pictures and music from the internet. For my History classes they could make a movie about a time in history and tell it from their own perspective.  The idea's for using i-movie are definitely endless.  I also learned that the time limit an important aspect of making these movies. At first I thought that the time was too limiting, but a lot of information can fit into just one minute.