EDLD 5363 Week 5 Reflections

My Group consisted of Ing Mu, Julie Barber, Vicky Satterwhite and Ranada Smith. During a web conference, Julie Barber and I were working together and Ing Mu, Vicky Satterwhite and Ranada Smith were working together. Since the first group needed additional members, the second group joined with the first. Communication was mostly through emails and wikis. The group brainstormed the topic of a PSA. I suggested possibly women's safety issues. Ing suggested cyberbullying. Discussions were held about the merits of both, and all agreed that cyberbulling would be a useful issue to address that could be used in the classroom as well. It was decided that Julie and I would videotape since we both were located on school campuses and had access to video cameras. Ing suggested that she would be the editor since her strength was in putting things together. Ranada and Vicky were willing to do whatever they could. Ranada and Vicky both have voices that record well, so the group decided to use both of them for audio. In addition, Ranada worked on the rough draft of the script and Julie worked on the script outline once that was completed. Vicky suggested a revision to the script but the group incorporated that suggestion into the various shots. Julie and Ing became directors since Ing has in-depth technology knowledge and Julie's strength is pointing people toward tasks. Ing created a wiki for the team to use for our documents. She copied documents for weeks 3-5 on the wiki and created pages for images, videos, audios, music and script. During week five, Julie and I videotaped scenes that were emailed to Ing. Ranada recorded the script and Vicky recorded as well. Ing mixed the two audios. As video and audio were recorded, emails went back and forth to decide the best format for recording and uploading audio and video. I tried to upload the video I took to our wiki, but the embedded page would not then download. We ended up using google docs to share footage. This has been a very useful class in every aspect.

EDLD 5363 Week 4 Post

This week has been very, very busy. My intellect has been stretched farther than I thought possible. I have teamed up with four other very talented women, Ing Mu, Julie Barber, Victoria Satterwhite, and Ranada Smith. We have all had our share in the learning curve. Ing resides in California, so none of this collaboration would have taken place, probably as early as 5 years ago. Ing and I have shot some video for our Public Service Announcement regarding cyberbullying. Julie has done an incredible amount of behind the scenes research. Ranada has created the audio. Victoria has created the dialogue. Together, we are accomplishing amazing things.