Callam Olver ETAD

Review and Self Assessment My understanding and perspective of technology and design in education evolved throughout the course. In education we work towards creating opportunities for students to engage in the learning process. Technology is an exciting tool to engage in the interest of learning and the pride of creating a product. This course provided a variety of software applications that can be used in the classroom. Learning new software was at times difficult but became easier as I viewed and attempted operations. The experience of learning these programs has given me the confidence to continue to better my skills and bring these applications into a classroom. Projects that I submitted began to take on a classroom focus. The projects could be used as a teaching tool or as way to demonstrate evidence of learning. In some projects some technical criteria was overlooked. The Blog allowed me to engage with peers, publish my work. I enjoyed viewing and posting to colleagues blogs, ...

Video assignment  Journal The video that I am creating is going to be an instructional video for the sport of wrestling. I thought that this could be used as a resource for coaches and athletes who maybe new to the sport. I am proud of the content of this video because it is a teaching tool and was successfully used as the first practice plan of the wrestling season. The first part of my process was to story board out my ideas. I came up with two different ideas as to what i wanted to present. One was a high flying double leg take down and the other was a basic skill of wrestling stance. I decided to do the wrestling stance concept and created a story board with a structure that a coach could use as a first practice. Shooting: Filming was done on two occasions. The first day I had a colleague film using two cameras. I had one camera on a tripod and one as a handhold. It was handy having the story board, we shot six shoulder shots in role that will be placed at diff...

Blog 12 Shot Cut training was more difficult to follow then the Lynda made courses. I found a huge difference in the scaffolding. The Shot Cut tutorials didn't cover some essential parts for me, one being how to save a project. I found the tutorials jumped around from one area to another. It did give me enough of a start that I could navigate the software a bit. I found that needed to go to additional forums to find specific needed information. I am looking forward to the video creation but am less excited to use a different software.