EDLD 5363 Video Posting

You can find the video for hour group project on YouTube at: http://youtu.be/JtFI2hF8x3k. My sincere thanks goes out to my teammates for this project Mary Angel, Tanya Henslee, and Ericka Turner. You guys were a great group of educators to work with. Thanks for all your hard work and cooperation. Randy

EDLD 5363 Web Conference Updates

The Week Two web conference was very enlightening. It helped solve some issues of what was to be done for this week’s assignment. There were issues with the courseware due to loading by EPIC. Once the web conference was over those issues were solved. The main issues of the we conference was how to do our podcast and ways to make it better. I was very upset and disheartened before about the assignment but afterwards I felt better and was able to make the podcast without any problems. We also covered how to go about choosing our groups for the final week’s project. By the end of the web conference I had my group and we had already started the initial meetings to decide our course of action for the project. The web conference for Week Three was good. It answered a lot of questions about the assignment and discussed areas we had not thought about. It gave us a few ideas about how to make our project better. We took those ideas and ran with them. Our final product should be one of the better ones. I have a great team to work with. We also discussed issues with the paperwork and exactly what needed to be turned in. Week 4’s web conference finally cleared up most if not all of the issues about the final product. Mostly it was the wording of the assignment. There were cases in the rubric that the wording didn’t match the assignment requirements. But Dr. Abernathy cleared those up and the assignments were more clearly understood. Week 5’s web conference discussed what was required for turn-in in TK20, our wiki, and the blog. Dr. Abernathy stressed that we must keep up with our course embedded hours and competencies. She stressed that we should not wait until the last moment to start to work on these. If we wait and everything is not complete it could impact our graduation and completion date.

EDLD 5363 Multimedia Video Technology Week 3

We spent week three prepping with our group about our team video project. We decided to do 6th Grade Science TEK 6.2B and the Scientific Investigation Process. Each team member had a role to play with me doing the editing and shooting of the final video part. This was a really good experience since I have never done this before. I have turned my garage into a studio and have set it up to run a green screen application on the video. This will truly be a new experience for me, one that I hope to do in the future with my students. This week will be the shooting phase of the video. I hope this turns out the way I want it to. The web conference was good. It answered a lot of questions about the assignment and discussed areas we had not thought about. It gave us a few ideas about how to make our project better. We took those ideas and ran with them. Our final product should be one of the better ones. I have a great team to work with.

EDLD 5363 Multimedia Video Technology Week 2

This week's assignment was easy once the directions were clearly understood.  We were given the assignment to create a podcast about a free video editing software found on the net.  The guidance was not clearly given on purpose so that we would have to collaborate with our fellow students to figure out what was expected.  After a great gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair, I finally figured out the assignment.  I made a podcast about iMovie and how a general overview of the program was done.  I now know that I have to give clear guidance to my students when assigning a project.  This was a valuable learning experience for me.

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EDLD 5363 Multimedia Video Technology Week 1

This week’s assignment was a great event.  I got to work with iMovie for the first time and then produced my first movie.  The movie was entitled “All About Me: Clements’ Family Military Heritage”.  It was about my family’s military heritage for the past four generations.

            Luckily for me, my district was conducting a Computer Tech course week for teachers and administrators.  One of the courses offered was iMovie.  I took this course and got a good general background of how to use the program.  Then I played with it, making mistakes and corrections until I got the final product to where I wanted it.  It was not perfect but this is to be expected.  The purpose of this course is to learn and experience new technology.

            This class has been very enlightening for me.  This is a subject that I have wanted to learn so I can use it in the classroom.  I am hoping that we will be able to do more with the programs and put them to other uses.  This is going to be a very exciting class.

Action Research and MDMP

A significant reflection of this course I found there was a similarity to the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) when it comes to Action Research.  The steps to an action research project follow the same guidelines as deciding on a strategy and action of military operations in both combat and peacetime.  This plan is called the Operations Order or as it is commonly known as, the OPORD.  The OPORD format and the MDMP follow closely the Force Field Analysis model.

The OPORD format follows the set methodology of Receiving the Mission, Mission Analysis, Course of Action (COA) Development, COA Analysis (aka Wargaming), COA Comparison, COA approval, and Orders Production.  The Force Field Analysis model follows the path of Describe the current situation, Describe the proposed change, Identify the current situation if no action is taken, List all forces driving the change toward the desired situation, Determine whether change is viable and Discuss how the change can be affected.  The two models are the best way for me to effect a change in any desired situation.   

Action Research Update

The conference with my site supervisor went well.  She was happy with template and had no issues with the plan.  She reminded me that I should talk with the PEIMS director and assessment director for our district.  She stated they should have information I could use for the action research project.  I found I have some of the information already in my files from the previous years TAKS testing, however, I have the scores for all those that took the Math TAKS on the days they were administered.  What I do not have is the knowledge of is of those that tested which ones count against our PEIMS snapshot date.     I made arrangements to meet with the district PEIMS director and had an hour-long meeting with him.  I conveyed to him what my action research project was about and what I was attempting to do.  He seemed enthusiastic about the project and stated he would be happy to help with obtaining the data.  He stated the data would not be difficult to obtain, a simple matter of running the campus through the PEIMS database for the timeframe requested.  His concerns were once I had the PEIMS snapshot data, was correlating it with the assessment results.  He was worried that the data comes from two different databases and whether or not these will work together.  He stated that once he had the data he would contact me and have me work with him in collating it.  The other issue would be tracking of those students who left our campus and went to another school within district.  This would take going through each year group and then cross referencing them with their number to see if they remained in district or left.  This would be time consuming, however, since our campus is one of the smallest in the district, it should be easy to check out the names.  At the end of the meeting he told me he would contact the TAKS assessment director to get the data I requested and to talk with her about how they could combine their respective databases to get the results needed.  He stated that since it was about to be the STAAR testing dates, both of their respective offices were going to be extremely busy for the next few weeks.  He told me that he should have the results as soon as they reached a lull in their schedules. I reported back to my site supervisor with the results of my meeting with the PEIMS director.