Investigating, I think is very important, because to achieve a great video, you will have to learn techniques other video creators use. I managed to create a TimeLapse video, by investigating and watching other photographers videos and how they created them. It turned out well, as I managed to make a fluid video, but after creating it, I needed to make more pictures to end up with a good finish.

Planning is essential, having to plan out your locations, actors, script and many more. Without a detailed and organized plan, your finished video will not good. I did not plan well, and ended up taking all of my pictures in the night.

Creating is the most important. Having gathered all of the research and information, you put it all in one product. I created my product after watching tutorial videos, of people making time lapse’s.

Evaluating is equally important, because after looking at your finished product, and finding all of the areas you need to improve on, you can use this to make a better product next time.

Above is my completed and finished product. I hope you enjoy it.

Here is my Technology Evaluation Reflection video. We were assigned to make a video or type a reflection telling what we did good and bad and had to answer questions.

If you would like to read my other posts, please click on one of the following links.

Create Reflection
Investigate Reflection
Plan Reflection

I hope you like my video!

In Technology class, we have been planning and making our own tutorials. We are nearly at the end of this unit and we are finishing our “Create” category out of the four categories we need to complete.  My reflection of my own tutorial is the last thing I need to do to complete and finish this stage.

After we made our tutorial, we were asked to watch other student tutorials in our grade. When we finished watching their tutorial, we had to give comments and opinions by answering these questions.

• What makes this a good tutorial? Why?
• What did you learn by watching their tutorial?
• What criteria does this tutorial meet?

I chose tutorials made by Alex Y.P and Justin C. You can visit their blogs via the following links. I thought both of these subjects were interesting to watch and also to use.

Justin

Alex’s

When I watched Justin’s and Alex’s tutorials, I learned to screen record for free, and also how to make a realistic house in Google Sketch Up 8. I thought these things are quite helpful, because I like to make installation tutorials, and I think using quicktime player is very useful. Not only that, I think Google Sketch Up would be helpful for class projects, for example for Humanities and other classes.

During the process of making my own tutorial, I learned a lot of different and interesting things. The most obvious point I learned was how important it was to organize exactly what I wanted to explain in the time allowed.   It is easier to talk about preparation but doing it for real was less easy!  Looking at it afterwards, I was concerned that the information I was giving was not really for beginners or related to my title. The biggest thing I learned was that I should have rehearsed more!

I am not really happy with my tutorial as I think I should have made one that had a more simple subject. It may have been easier to have just introduced the Koto to people instead of speaking about dynamics. I could have explained about the history of Koto, the wood used, the strings and how to pluck them with Tsume.

In the tutorial I made, I did not explain the topic very well because I should have shown how to read the notes instead of showing what the notes looked like. Other things I did not like were the location and lighting that I chose. I should have had a brighter place which showed up the koto more. The ending was also quite sudden. However, I thought my voice was loud and clear and I stayed at one tempo.

I think my tutorial would pass the following criteria: Sound quality, Language, Volume and Pacing. I think I did a good job at these things, but now realize that I need to improve others parts to fit other criteria.

To create a better tutorial, I would change my camera angle, location and lighting. I think I also need to take more time with planning what I want to say to the audience. Cropping my videos better and adding music next time is also something I should spend more time thinking about.

If you would like to watch my tutorial, please scroll down two posts, and you will find a post titled “Watch my tutorial!!!!”. I hope you enjoy and please comment on what I should improve next time.

During class in the last few weeks, we have been focusing and making our own Tutorials. To get ideas, we have been watching videos on YouTube and other video sites. Since I like Minecraft, I have been watching videos related to the game.

Our first assignment was to watch different tutorial videos. We used a document created by our Technology teacher. We filled in all the required information. I did mine on Minecraft. I watched four different videos, and we had to choose our favorite one. My one was about creating your own Minecraft server. It was a pretty long video, and got boring at the end, but when I was able to accomplish it, I was very happy. In class, we switched computerswith a partner, and we watched our partners favorite video. In this case, Johan was my partner. His video was related to Origami, and the video seemed to be very simple. But the folding was NOT! The person made it look very easy, but I have tried Origami, and when I finish it, it never ends up how its supposed to be. My video was pretty long, so he couldn’t finish, which I could understand. After all of that, we gave our opinions about the video.

We were assigned to comment on other peoples blogs. I chose Justin’s and Sena’s

Sena’s video was about tap dancing. Justins’s video was about surviving your first night on Minecraft. I thought both of these videos were fun to watch, but Sena’s didn’t seem easy. It looked very complicated, but I think it would be very easy for him.

During this unit, I learned a lot on how to make my own tutorial. I think I need a very clear voice, and if i’m doing a screen recording, I should slow down to the important steps. I have learned a lot in this unit, and would like continuing this unit.

After that class, we started planning out are own tutorials. The two lessons were mostly filled by this activity. A week has gone by, and westarted to make our own tutorials. We used snapshots, instead of a screen recording. Before we did this presentation, we brainstormed ides on this document. This was a plan for our real one. This is my presentation of my tutorial.

I think my tutorial compared to my other one is quite similar. However, I did miss a few important steps.

I think I made my presentation detailed enough, and I included most of the important tips. However, I did miss a few steps. If I added these steps, I think my presentation would look very good.

Overall, I thought this unit was very fun and watching all of these videos great. I would like to learn more in Technology class.

In Technology Class, we have researching different tutorials for our tutorial research sheet. I think this video was really good, because this person described the steps really slowly and also showed us where to download the downloads.

I would choose “How to make Minecraft Creations” because I am really good at Minecraft, and I know a lot about downloading mods, texture packs and how to make cool things with redstone and all sorts of other stuff.

Section 1:
The most important thing I have learned in this unit is “Making a drop-down menu”. I find it very useful and easy to find pages of categories. Not only that, I think it looks cool. I find this important because some blog themes are really crammed and hard to find things. However, if you have this drop down menu, people can easily go to the top and find the page or category.

Section 2:
When I work in class, I usually stay on topic. I sometimes talk to my friend and play jokes on them, but I always get back to work. I think I can change this by: not fooling around, stay on task. I think I should listen to the teacher so I don’t have to ask my friend. Well, when I get confused and need help from the teacher, but she is not free, I try to be caring to the teacher and ask my friend. I find this more polite and easier as well, because when somebody needs help from the teacher, it should be something big, since he or she can’t ask there friend.

Section 3:
I think I was a inquirer because I wanted to learn how to make a drop down menu. I demonstrated this by using different strategies and experimenting. Basically, I was doing “trial and error”. I was doing things with the categories, trying to overlap them and also doing the same with pages. I finally figured it out by visiting the menu bar. When I did this, I tried adding different categories at the top. This didn’t work so I had to search it on the web. I visited the “Word press” blog

Screen Recording 3

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I really enjoyed this unit and can’t wait to continue it.

I think this could be my last reflection for our tech unit. Now, I will get right to it.

My blog theme is “Arclite” and I like it very much. I find it a pretty cool looking blog, but is simple. It is quite easy to find categories and posts. It has a nice layout, and nothing is crammed. I am happy that this blog was here. I did not like any of the other ones.

I am happy that I have my own blog, and can write about me. I think it is cool to write about your-self and have other people read or watch it. I am most proud of the post action. But I’m also proud if the widgets. I think it attracts little kids, and they will start looking at my blog. Not only that, I think it drives the readers attention into my blog.

I need to learn how to write nice comments, and add header pictures. I tried doing it but, it ended up messy. I think a glitch caused this.

I really liked this unit and want to learn more!!

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Themes would be first on my list. I will find one I like, and one that suits me. I wouldn’t choose a theme that involves a lot of colors and hard to read. Not only that, it doesn’t match me. I would give it a suitable title and nothing offensive either. Colors should go together and not make the reader confused. Categories are going to have all my posts for that category. For example, a post for Humanities will go in the Humanities folder.

Blog research criteria (Color) would be one the criteria I would choose, since if we had lots of colors and it would be really confusing to find things and read. Colors can also represent you and people could sometimes know who the person is. Other things you pit on the blog should be appropriate and not offend other people’s feelings. We did a Brainstorm for what we include in our blog.