The Little Swimmers That Could vs. The Little Director Who Couldn't

So here is my digital story called, The Little Swimmers That Could. I had a lot of fun making this, but there was definitely a lot of set backs. For example, I had the hardest time with iMovie in the lab on Tuesday. I was ready to go with everything I needed--accept for the story board I left at home. Yet, the program would not cooperate! I even went through all of the manuals and online help programs and could find nothing. So basically I sat there and wasted three hours of my life while watching others do what they could and I helped a few people. I was also able to learn how to modify multiple pictures at once with the photoshop that is on the computer in the lab.

Anyways, so new game plan was to go on Wednesday and take more pictures and videos with my actual camera and assume I wouldn't have issues. The kids were more than willing to help me out and I had a lot of fun goofing off with the kids in the middle of their instructional time and I took a lot of neat pictures that will probably end up going to the camp slideshow for the end of the year. Back onto topic...

I went to the library after a long day of work and I sat there for three hours, the equivalent of what it would have taken me in the lab, and finished what I needed too. There were a few issues though. The first one is that the library had the newest version of both photoshop and iMovie so I had to adjust to that and figure out what the heck I was doing. I ended up wasting a lot of time on google searching how to questions. It was not fun. The other thing I had issues with i that I could not figure out how to convert some of the audio files from my phone onto the computer. On Tuesday, I had no issues whatsoever but today the Macs were not having it! They are so user friendly until they throw a tantrum. I had no time to hit up the mac genius bar either. The one positive run in I did have is that once I got use to the program, I got use to it. It was a lot simpler than the old version of iMovie  AND you can flip the pictures you have uploaded into iMovie (not the videos though because I tried)!The only thing I wish I could have figured out is how to have a background song. But, I guess it is best because it wont break up concentration when kids are trying to read the screen OR you can read it for them OR you can have learners read to each other (only after you have had conferences with each child and know what their reading level is and who should read aloud to the class with full confidence).

All in all I see myself using this for big projects and presentation especially on parent night but I won't be using it in my ordinary classroom setting unless I have files saved up of things that won't change over time and I can use again and again.