Wrapping, Waving, Wishing
It's a wrap!!! Not quite the wrap I anticipated, but still I managed to pull together what I consider a good final product. All weekend I tried to find various ways to open my video in imovie on our Mac. We even added software that allowed Quick time to read Mpeg2 files. And it worked, sort of. Only the import was still too dark to make out anything. I tried several suggestions from family and friends to no avail. Basically, to get the quality I wanted I needed to purchase a firewire that would allow me to hook our friend's camera to our computer. That would feed it directly into imovie. John didn't think his camera contained the necessary port and time was an issue anyway. So I accepted defeat.
I'd already decided to drop my text into a PowerPoint presentation and began working on the slides. Some how I wanted it to have the essence of the video. It needed to have a voice. The teen's voices. Then my daughter Sarah suggested using pics she had of her and her friends and a cool speech bubble tool to incorporate the girls and their responses to my interview questions. It worked. What's missing though is the girls interactions with each other during the video taping. I watched it again to transcribe the quotes I used and my husband commented on what a great video it is. A friend stopped by to pick up his daughter and stayed to view the PowerPoint and gave it a thumbs up. My youngest sat and read the whole thing. She even pointed out some editing mistakes for me. Tip: Always have someone read your final work to catch those pesky typos. I'm a great believer in having students exchange final drafts to catch mistakes and make suggestions. This would work with these types of projects too.
I'd be glad to share this with someone. I found as I worked on it that I visualized it as a resource for teens. So I may look into ways to share it with teens. Not sure if they are still offering a life skills class at BRHS or maybe in the health class.
My projects bibliography is as follows:
Adams, Carol J. Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat! : An A-Z Guide to Surviving a Conflict in Diets.. New York: Continuum, 2004.
Belamerich, Peter F., and Keith Thomas Ayoob. "Keeping Teenage Vegetarians Healthy and in the Know." Contemporary Pediatrics. October 2001: 89. (Gale).
Children’s and Women’s Health Center of British Columbia. “Vegetarian Reading List for Teens.” 09/06/05. http://www.cw.bc.ca/endodiab/pdf/vegread.pdf.
Duden, Jane. Vegetarianism for Teens. Mankato: Capstone Press, 2001.
Maurer, Donna. Vegetarianism: Movement or Moment. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.
National Center for Nutrition and Dietetics. “Vegetarian Food Guide Pyramid.” (1997):
The University of Texas at Austin. http://www.utexas.edu/depts/he/ntr/NTR311pyramidpage5.htm
Palo Alto Medical Foundation. “Vegetarianism in Teens.” http://www.vegsoc.org/youth/Parentteenager.pdf.
The Vegetarian Society. (2005). Parent and Teenager’s Guide, Iron handout and Calcium handout. http://www.vegsoc.org.
Winkler, Kathleen. Vegetarianism and Teens: A Hot Issue. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2001.
Hopefully it is all there. I tried to keep good records for all information I used in researching vegetarianism and teens and on materials used in the final project. Wonder now if I should have included this at the end of the PowerPoint too. Can always add it later, especially if I share it.
"Describe how your experiences with personal inquiry are like and unlike those of a child or young adult." Hmm... Let's see. This project took over my life and that of my family. Not sure any K-12 project would require so much. But the freedom to choose our inquiry is probably different. Most kids have to choose from a list of teacher generated topics. My experience with searching for information gave me an advantage. Most school-age students would require some guidance from a teacher/media specialist. Most kids have a leg up on me with technology, and may have had experience already with using tools like Inspiration. I know my own run circles around me on our Mac. Reading and notetaking, students would need to learn how to extract material relevent to their topics and how to take good notes and organize them. I described in an earlier blog about dealing with frustrations of access to equipment and setting up interviews and what that would be like as a student. And I know I'd share their relief at having finished the project and turned it in. I learned alot and I know students learn alot through these experiences too.
Wishing? I just wish that I had had my own digital video equipment and/or that the equipment I used had been compatible with my computer. I still wish the video clips had worked out. What would I do differently? Started the whole darn thing alot earlier. :-)
If anyone would like to check out my PowerPoint, click on final product.
Favorite things about this project: Creating the video and blogging.
I'd already decided to drop my text into a PowerPoint presentation and began working on the slides. Some how I wanted it to have the essence of the video. It needed to have a voice. The teen's voices. Then my daughter Sarah suggested using pics she had of her and her friends and a cool speech bubble tool to incorporate the girls and their responses to my interview questions. It worked. What's missing though is the girls interactions with each other during the video taping. I watched it again to transcribe the quotes I used and my husband commented on what a great video it is. A friend stopped by to pick up his daughter and stayed to view the PowerPoint and gave it a thumbs up. My youngest sat and read the whole thing. She even pointed out some editing mistakes for me. Tip: Always have someone read your final work to catch those pesky typos. I'm a great believer in having students exchange final drafts to catch mistakes and make suggestions. This would work with these types of projects too.
I'd be glad to share this with someone. I found as I worked on it that I visualized it as a resource for teens. So I may look into ways to share it with teens. Not sure if they are still offering a life skills class at BRHS or maybe in the health class.
My projects bibliography is as follows:
Adams, Carol J. Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat! : An A-Z Guide to Surviving a Conflict in Diets.. New York: Continuum, 2004.
Belamerich, Peter F., and Keith Thomas Ayoob. "Keeping Teenage Vegetarians Healthy and in the Know." Contemporary Pediatrics. October 2001: 89. (Gale).
Children’s and Women’s Health Center of British Columbia. “Vegetarian Reading List for Teens.” 09/06/05. http://www.cw.bc.ca/endodiab/pdf/vegread.pdf.
Duden, Jane. Vegetarianism for Teens. Mankato: Capstone Press, 2001.
Maurer, Donna. Vegetarianism: Movement or Moment. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.
National Center for Nutrition and Dietetics. “Vegetarian Food Guide Pyramid.” (1997):
The University of Texas at Austin. http://www.utexas.edu/depts/he/ntr/NTR311pyramidpage5.htm
Palo Alto Medical Foundation. “Vegetarianism in Teens.” http://www.vegsoc.org/youth/Parentteenager.pdf.
The Vegetarian Society. (2005). Parent and Teenager’s Guide, Iron handout and Calcium handout. http://www.vegsoc.org.
Winkler, Kathleen. Vegetarianism and Teens: A Hot Issue. Berkeley Heights: Enslow, 2001.
Hopefully it is all there. I tried to keep good records for all information I used in researching vegetarianism and teens and on materials used in the final project. Wonder now if I should have included this at the end of the PowerPoint too. Can always add it later, especially if I share it.
"Describe how your experiences with personal inquiry are like and unlike those of a child or young adult." Hmm... Let's see. This project took over my life and that of my family. Not sure any K-12 project would require so much. But the freedom to choose our inquiry is probably different. Most kids have to choose from a list of teacher generated topics. My experience with searching for information gave me an advantage. Most school-age students would require some guidance from a teacher/media specialist. Most kids have a leg up on me with technology, and may have had experience already with using tools like Inspiration. I know my own run circles around me on our Mac. Reading and notetaking, students would need to learn how to extract material relevent to their topics and how to take good notes and organize them. I described in an earlier blog about dealing with frustrations of access to equipment and setting up interviews and what that would be like as a student. And I know I'd share their relief at having finished the project and turned it in. I learned alot and I know students learn alot through these experiences too.
Wishing? I just wish that I had had my own digital video equipment and/or that the equipment I used had been compatible with my computer. I still wish the video clips had worked out. What would I do differently? Started the whole darn thing alot earlier. :-)
If anyone would like to check out my PowerPoint, click on final product.
Favorite things about this project: Creating the video and blogging.
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