Student Sample Reflections

If you had 10 more hours or 10 hundred dollars ($1,000), what would you do differently to improve/change your student sample?

I think this project would have been a lot easier for me to complete and would have been better done if I had more time. I live almost an hour away so it was easier for me to use friends from home to help me. The only problem with that was finding a time we could all meet, when we did meet we had a little over an hour to do all the filming. It was a short news clip but I could have used more time. Another thing is the fact that this lesson is designed for students to work in groups with their other classmates during class time. I did not have a classroom full of students to work with, well I did but they were an hour away and I work all the time. Also I didn't have class time to work on my student sample as my students would. I am giving them two class periods to work on their projects which I think will be the perfect amount of time for them to create a well designed news report.

Now that you've put yourself in your student's place and created this, what expectations of your future students have changed?

I have realized that there are some changes that need to be made on my rubric now that I have completed this student sample. One portion of the rubric was on music used in the video but little or no music is needed in a news report so I think I may want to take that portion out. They have two class periods to work on this so I think that is plenty enough time to complete the video and they can use out of school time to work on it as well.

How much fun did you / didn't you have and what did you learn about yourself through this process?

I had fun working with my friends to make the video. I did not have fun editing the video clips because I have decided that I really don't like windows movie maker, it just doesn't have much to offer and it doesn't really allow for your movie to look all that professional. I only used it because my time on campus is limited and I did not want to take out a mac and have any technical problems. But I have come to the conclusion through this project that I am going to purchase a mac next year. It has better software on it and as a teacher I will want one because all the schools purchase macs so it is a good idea to have one and get familiar with them because that's what my students will be using.