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__** Team Collaboration document **__
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** This week’s final product was the PSA that my group has worked on together for the last 3 weeks. **
=== ** Our team consisted of 4 others, only one of which I had ever spoken to, and I was really pleased with the way we were able to come together as a group, divide the assignments, and collaborate at least twice a week over webcams to keep each other apprised of our progress. We used a Google doc to archive our assignment documents, chats and files. When collaborating with teammates who are geographically separated, a tool like this is invaluable for keeping lines of communication open (Desktop-Video-Guide, n.d.). ** ** Robert was our team member who had the most familiarity with Premier, so he volunteered to piece all of the bits together into something we could use. I've heard of Premier, but had no experience with it. However, I do realize that, like many of Adobe's products, there are professionals who can spend years with the program and never learn all of the software's features. ** ** I have never been a big fan of group work, but I have to say that this was the most painless project and the best group I've collaborated with in a long time. We enjoyed our online discussions and had a good time with this assignment. We created our Google doc early on in order to catalog all of our documents and maintain an ongoing discussion as to how we each would contribute. I feel as if we were very successful in completing this assignment. As a matter of fact, due to the division of tasks and the way we were able to work together on them with plenty of time, the PSA project was mostly complete prior to the end of class. It reminds me of the quote from Week 5: "What we mean by 'plussing' is this...you take a piece of work...and when it's given to you, you don't judge it...you say here's where I'm starting what can I do with this, how can I 'plus' this (Nelson, 2008)?" No one team member seemed to feel overwhelmed at the amount of work they had to do, because each one of us did our part and submitted the pieces to Robert, who brought everything together into the completed product. ** ===

__** Reflection **__
=== ** When I learned that I would be taking a video and multimedia class for my Masters, I envisioned that I would be using programs that I was already somewhat familiar with as well as learning how to use new programs and software. The actual course outcomes, however didn't exactly align with what I had envisioned. The simple photo story project was fun, and I was able to complete it relatively painlessly. I had never used Audacity before, and had numerous problems with the LAME encoder, so I was never able to export sound files as MP3s--I had to use the .ogg format for both the review and for my portion of the PSA assignment. I personally would have valued more individual movie-making assignments instead of one big group project. However in light of the fact that this is a class toward my degree in instructional technology leadership, it is important to know how to collaborate among peers to produce a product. **** And the outcomes aren't very relevant to what I now do, since I am back in the classroom this year due to budget cuts, and in no way do I now have time to create videos at school. But at least I’m now familiar with the process. ** === === ** I have to say, once again, that I find the discussion board assignments to be tedious and not relative or productive at all. The directions for the assignments were often misleading, to where the actual discussion link found in the class folder would say that we were required to respond to one other member, but then when we got the grade back, we were docked points for not responding to two members. It's very discouraging to both me and other class members to not be able to depend on the course instructions to give us the full information, especially since I view the directions as my main source of course expectations. ** ===

__** Week 5 PSA **__
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__** Week 3 Windows Live MovieMaker Tutorial **__
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__** Week 2 Video **__
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__** Week 1 Personal Digital Story **__
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