This week, I hated the assignment. I have no idea what the reason was, but having to create a VIDEO just gave me complete anxiety and resulted in me procrastinating on getting started as long as possible. Which, is ironic because I had just listened to an episode focused on procrastination on the podcast, Ologies, and recognized it was probably my most self destructive behavior and resolved to try to do better.
That was not successful.
I am not really sure what my aversion to making a video was really about, but it was powerful. I actually started 5 different videos with 3 different concepts before my final video, but could not get past the 1st or 2nd slide before deleting everything and starting over.
I had wanted to do something about taxonomy because I am actually focusing on that for a unit project that I am creating in another class right now, so any tools that I can come up with to tie into that is very helpful. Then, I thought, what images do I have that can help me actually make a video?
Outside of my children, most of the pictures on my camera are of...
My idiot dog, Maggie.
So, that is where I got the concept to do the taxonomy of Maggie.
I started by taking a few extra pictures of Maggie so that I would definitely have enough that were
not blurry to use. I then went through and found other animal pictures that I had to use for the video. I created the outline of her taxonomy, used on the 3rd image in Word, saved it as a PDF, then converted it to JPG to use in the video.
I think the hardest part of the entire project, outside of simply getting started, was organizing the images to be used and adding them into the video. I really did not find the Adobe Spark program to be as user friendly as the other programs that we have used so far, at least not for me and for what I was wanting to do with it, with the exception of adding audio to the project. That was really easy and turned out really clear.
Despite how difficult this project was for me, I actually LOVED the way my video turned out. I thought that it was so cute with the background music and the way that it moved from one image to the next. Also, I just love looking at animal pictures.
That said, I am not sure that I will use this again, but I will definitely keep it in mind as a tool for students to present their work, at least as an option. I would definitely enjoy watching projects made with this.
With that, here is my video exploring the taxonomy of my dog Maggie!
That was not successful.
I am not really sure what my aversion to making a video was really about, but it was powerful. I actually started 5 different videos with 3 different concepts before my final video, but could not get past the 1st or 2nd slide before deleting everything and starting over.
I had wanted to do something about taxonomy because I am actually focusing on that for a unit project that I am creating in another class right now, so any tools that I can come up with to tie into that is very helpful. Then, I thought, what images do I have that can help me actually make a video?
Outside of my children, most of the pictures on my camera are of...
My idiot dog, Maggie.
So, that is where I got the concept to do the taxonomy of Maggie.
I started by taking a few extra pictures of Maggie so that I would definitely have enough that were
not blurry to use. I then went through and found other animal pictures that I had to use for the video. I created the outline of her taxonomy, used on the 3rd image in Word, saved it as a PDF, then converted it to JPG to use in the video.I think the hardest part of the entire project, outside of simply getting started, was organizing the images to be used and adding them into the video. I really did not find the Adobe Spark program to be as user friendly as the other programs that we have used so far, at least not for me and for what I was wanting to do with it, with the exception of adding audio to the project. That was really easy and turned out really clear.
Despite how difficult this project was for me, I actually LOVED the way my video turned out. I thought that it was so cute with the background music and the way that it moved from one image to the next. Also, I just love looking at animal pictures.
That said, I am not sure that I will use this again, but I will definitely keep it in mind as a tool for students to present their work, at least as an option. I would definitely enjoy watching projects made with this.
With that, here is my video exploring the taxonomy of my dog Maggie!
Thanks for watching!
Love, Nikki and Maggie
I have had the same issue where getting started was the hard part. I am glad you found your resiliency to carry on. I agree that your video turned out really well and I liked the explanation that you provided AND I did learn something about taxonomy.
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job! This is a project that your students can do as well.
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