Objectives: Make a series of three application demos (ILT program).
Tutorials: Three demos on how to edit video footage in imovie.
Learners: Middle school and high school students in my Chinese class.
Hardware/Software used: video camera, Snapz Pro (exported with Sorenson 3 video setting and IMA audio setting), imovie (exported as ipod file), internal mic on Mac.
My Experience: First-time, newbie.
Only encouragement comments accepted. 
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I am a newbie in the field of IDT and the story (http://www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=72284) I read might be inspiring for us.
Sherri Clemens, “one of only 100 nationwide and the only one in Colorado to receive the Distinguished Educator Award from Apple Computers” in 2007, started her master’s program in 2001, when she didn’t even know “how to plug her mouse into her computer” and was “scared to death of it”. She majored in computer science and now she is helping integrate technologies in classrooms.
Where will we be 5 or 7 years from now? To which level are we going to be in the field of IDT? I wasn’t scared to death when I started to blog, but felt a little nervous starting this new thing. Now I am on the road to learn about the IDT and looking forward to using it in the near future in my classroom. I may not be the future distinguished educator, but the story does give me (actually to every one of us) some encouragement.
We enroll in this program in order to do something with the knowledge we are going to learn. It is this desire that is going to keep us motivated and succeed eventually in what we do. I am sure we are better than knowing plugging a mouse into a computer.
Now we just need to get the bug, and as Sherri said, “It’s going to be there forever.”
I cannot imagine that I posted my recut trailer (IT 5730) on YouTube.com and my blog! Two months ago, I knew little about them, and now it is time to find some fireworks.
What will I use it for in my teaching? I can show off a little bit for sure. Then I will let my students to show off by making their own video. It will take a while to get the project done, but isn’t it one of the current trends to go online and share things? With a little bit of pepper and salt, it might become a project students are interested in – making their own video for the Chinese program.
Current ideas:
1. Students make their own trailers to promote the Chinese program! It might not be as fun as promoting their own likes, but it is definitely more interesting to do their own video. I quite enjoy the high school TV programs and students could be very creative. I can consider this as a little spark and see how this spark turns into.
2. The dialogues and texts in the textbooks could be boring. Students can make their own dialogues or texts during the learning process.
3. Students can also make their own trailers – all in Chinese! It could be about anything (movie, TV series, or out of their own) they are interested in.
Of course, there are always blocks: time, equipment, technique skills, etc. Preparation probably takes a longer time. However, it is always good to try things out in the field of education. As long as we think it will help students learn, we should try it. We do improve and learn things through failure.
Let’s have some fun!
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