Working on a Public Service Announcement (PSA) was a wonderful experience. Depending on 3 other people that I really didn't know and relying on someone else's expertise for a grade was a little daunting. As the days rolled on beginning with week 3, we built trust with each other and friendships. In the preproduction, each person volunteered for roles in the making of the PSA using their strengths. We explored so many different chatting options, wikis, Google docs, and mediafire.com. The exploration of the variety of online tools was a class in and of itself. We set meetings for online chats to discuss where we were at and what needed to be accomplished and who would be responsible.
We began with a wiki to brainstorm, then put information on a PowerPoint in order to edit and progressed to a spreadsheet to see the flow of the video better. While on the Google spreadsheet, we could all edit and chat at the same time. This was very helpful. Then after viewing the rough draft that was saved on mediafire.com, another spreadsheet was added to fill in gaps and further edit.
After our first draft and being way over the time limitations, I suggested viewing some PSAs in order to “learn from what you watch” (New, 2005). I found the following websites and suggested that we all view them to better understand what we were trying to produce:
http://www.readwritethink.org/beyondtheclassroom/summer/grades9_12/VideoPSA/
http://www.adcouncil.org/gallery.html
Viewing some other PSAs really helped narrow down ours and bring into focus what we were trying to accomplish.
One thing that I would like to change for our Public Service Announcement was the narration. We used Audacity to record and edit the narrator and surfer but not the shark. The shark narration needed to be recorded again and possible rewrite the narration to shorten the shark’s speeches to allow more time for the surfer’s narration. Due to the one minute time allotment, the surfer’s voice was compressed changing the tone of the voice. The PSA would have turned out much better had the time been spent with editing the different voice narrations to fit within the video.
Overall, I really enjoyed working with our team. Everyone contributed to the betterment of the video. I really like our final project. We decided to post to youtube.com. We gave credit to: The Little Red Riding Hood by Brothers Grimm for the original idea, Discovery Education for pictures and clips of video, Texas School Safety Center for background information, Netsmartz.org for background information, Music: Surfin' Safari" by The Beach Boys, Jaws Theme music, and the team members Kathy Payne, Mellonie Dalton, Michelle Barber and Erin Cobb for creation.
Below are different links to more information on the phases of producing our Public Service Announcement.
Brainstorming and Collaboration Wiki
http://lamareducationtechnology.pbworks.com/
Sample of Chatting on Google Chat
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dwd5526_65hbrgfr9z&invite=
First powerpoint version w/edits
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dgb2cjjn_56hgqt9fgr&hl=en
Spreadsheet/ we could all edit and chat
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rUDl3pwdLNu5nTHw1negpYA&hl=en
Added slides after 1st rough draft of video
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dgb2cjjn_67fjkjbddc&hl=en
Video viewing
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=44969d00d5538f7119747bd91027d4ddf348e786d696fdf4
Final Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS7eRnVOl7I
REFERCENCES
New, J. (2005). How to use digital storytelling in your classroom. Edutopia. Retrieved June 2, 2009, from http://www.edutopia.org/use-digital-storytelling-classroom
Monday, July 6, 2009
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