Examples of Portfolios

One good example is: http://www.cfkeep.org/html/stitch.php?s=2814408673732&id=94404660812025
I chose this portfolio because it isorganzied and easy to navigate through. This portfolio is inviting and attracts the eye by having pictures.

One bad example is: http://www.plu.edu/~bittlejl/photos/home.html
I chose this as a bad example because most of the portfolio is vague and not attention grabbing.

Copyright

Copyright for teachers seems like a serious thing to take into consideration.  Growing up and going through the different grade levels I never thought they needed permission to show a movie.  There were times at the end of the year or before we went on break that a teacher would show us a movie that had no educational purpose.  They probably never got the copyright law approved to show the movie.  I am surprised that you need to ask to show a movie.  When you show the movie you don't normally think about all the details that go along with showing that movie.  The pre-school that I work at during the summer shows a movie every thursday.  I'm sure that they haven't asked permission to show those movies.  Outside the school enviroment there is all kinds of copyright laws with music.  If you share music that can be considered going against the copyright laws.  I think we should teach students about copyright laws so students can respect and understand what it means.  Having them play a jeopardy game like we played in class may help them understand how serious it can be.

Scenario

The timeline for a video project that I would give my students would be over the course of a month.  I would have students construct interviews with people from different time periods.  For example, they can interview parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, or friends. The content area would be history.  And the age level would be directed to high school students.  To prepare for this video project I will need to design questions for students to ask the people who they are interviewing.  These questions will be about different things going on in History during the time when these people lived.  I would also have to put students into groups.  Each group would need to borrow a camera to record their interviews.  If the students don't know how to work a camera they will need to have a lesson.  As a teacher I would give students a rubric on what should be included in the video project.  Some challenges are having access to video cameras.  Also having students find people they can interview.

Prep Work
- Get the materials needed such as : cameras, handouts,
- Plan deadlines for project
-Have the project in sections over the course of one month so students don't get overwhelmed


Students should have a 5 minute interview with  each of the three people they chose to interview. Each students video should be 15 minutes all together. Videos will be presented to the class.

Reflection on video project

I liked doing the video project.  I thought it was a good learning experience especially since I never did this kind of video project.  The filming of the project was the easiest part of this project.  Me and my partner knew what we wanted to film and how we wanted it to look on video, so this part was the easiest.  I would say the most difficult part was cutting down the music to fit certain parts of the video.  If I were to improve this project it would be to have more time on the project.  If we had more time on this video project we could have added so much more effects to the video. If I approached this project differently I would have planned it out more to have it almost perfect.  The skills I learned from doing this video was editing.  Editing the video was the biggest skill for me.