Video Editing?

This past week in class we learned about video editing.  We had already learned about in camera editing and I had a lot of fun with that lesson.  This week was a little different.  My group had an easy time coming up with a PSA topic, treatment, and story board.  We had fun recording our video and felt confident that it was good.  Unfortunately once we uploaded it to the computer things began to fall apart.  Laura, one of my group members, began editing the video while I looked up some music for our intro.  Near the end whenever she edited a video the next video became deleted.  After much time our professor finally said to just present what we had.  It was okay but not great.  Another groups video deleted completely!

So what did I learn.  First, if you are going to use technology it's important to know whether it is compatible with your computer or not.  We learned the hard way that it wasn't.  Second, it is important to take a step back and breathe when working with technology.  When you need it the most is usually when it doesn't work so always have a back up lesson, just in case. Three, video editing is much more challangeing than I thought and doesn't allow for a lot of collaboration during the editing.  It was hard for more than one person to edit and so it fell on one person's shoulders.

Would I use this in my classroom?  Maybe.   The pros are having students synthesis the information they have researched into a 30 second clip.  They have to take into consideration their audience, their purpose, and their style.  The con would be the amount of time it would take them to complete the videos.  As adults who were familiar with the process it took us 2 1/2 hours from start to finish.  I would say at a minimum triple that for a classroom so 7 1/2 hours would probably be too much time to take up.  Oh time, isn't it always the problem?