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 * Course Reflection Prompts**

** 1. What outcomes had you envisioned for this course? Did you achieve those outcomes? Did the actual course outcomes align with those that you envisioned? **  With the title of the course being Mutimedia Video Technology I figured we would be making multimedia presentations or videos. The assignment for week one was more simple that what I thought we were going to do. I like that we all had to use the same software. This puts everyone on the same level as far as software is concerned and that lets the creativity of each student shine through. In week two we created a podcast which is something I had never done. We had to find a free website to post it on. There were many choices for this but I chose Podbean. It was user friendly. The podcast was not something I expected but it was fun to do. Weeks three through five is more of what I had expected to do in this course. We were able to create the video in whatever software package we wanted. This let those of us who have edited video before use what we were familiar with. This made the editing portion easy. I am not a writer so someone else in the group wrote the script and I helped with editing. I also came up with the original idea for the subject of the PSA.  ** 2. To the extent that you achieved the outcomes, are they still relevant to the work that you do in your school? Why or why not? **  Everything we did is relevant to the work that I do. This year I have 3 Algebra classes and spend the rest of the day troubleshooting technology and helping teachers with their technology integration. I can see doing podcasts for my Algebra classes explaining how to work some of the problems and show other teachers how to create a podcast for their classes. I can also see the Elementary classes using PhotoStory to create presentations for assignments in their classes. The Video Technology students can create their video, post them on a video site and begin creating their own portfolio. Since middle school studnets love to have their pictures taken they could use PhotoStory also for creating personal digital stories.

 **3. What outcomes did you not achieve? What prevented you from achieving them?**  I don't think there were any outcomes that I did not achieve. I had no preconceived outcomes for the class other than we were probably going to create videos. We did that, so I think all outcomes that I envisioned were achieved.  **4. Were you successful in completing the course assignments? If not, what prevented or discouraged you?**  I was able to complete the assignments. I struggled during week one with what my personal digital story should be. Once I decided on a story I then had a really hard time keeping it under 2 minutes. Week two was interesting because I had never made a podcast before. There are teachers at the middle school in our district that had created podcasts and wiki's for her students to use but I had not done so. I found it easy enough to create and post. Weeks three through five made me nervous. Working collaboratively does not scare me, but I generally take charge of whatever I am participating in and this was hard for me. We came up with an idea for a PSA but when the script writer was working on the script the focus of the PSA changed. But that was OK because I think we still have a good, relevant video. ** 5. What did you learn from this course: about yourself, your technology and leadership skills, and your attitudes? **  During this course I have learned that there are a lot of things that I don't know about shooting footage for a video. I learned quite a bit from the readings. The tips for shooting video and things to avoid when shooting were extremely beneficial to me. I have taught a video editing course for about 7 or 8 years and I don't have a problem teaching how to edit but I have hard time when it comes to teaching the students about shooting footage. I struggle constantly with ideas for the students next projects but I found during this course that I am more creative than I thought.  I think my technology skills are good and I am a pretty good leader, or maybe I am just good at taking over. When it comes to my attitudes I don't think any of them have changed.