EDLD+5363+Multimedia+Reflection



What outcomes had you envisioned for this course? Did you achieve those outcomes? Did the actual course outcomes align with those that you envisioned?

The outcomes I had envisioned for this course is to have fun. Many other outcomes were about learning out to manipulate video and photos. I learned far more than what I had envisioned. The photo story was my favorite. It was so neat how you can narrate photos and put them together in a story. While I was creating my own photo story, I had the idea come to mind about weddings. What if one person could make a living by taking digital photos and narrating the photos and putting background music to it for the bride and grooms special day? What if you can take one's sorrow over the lost of a loved one and narrate on the celebration of their life? So many ideas come through my mind at that moment. I did achieve the outcomes by learning how to enjoy the use of open source software and creating dynamic end product.

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?

At this time it is not relevant for what I am doing in my internship. I am assured that some of the outcomes that I have achieved will be used in future projects. At this time I am not working for a school district. I am though working on my internship through China Elementary from the Hardin-Jefferson Independent School District. I do believe I will use much of what I have learned through my own personal projects as well. I don't have to look at scrap-booking my photos but I can make a photo story instead and share it with all my family members. Building websites on Google Sites is one of the projects I am currently working on right now. I do enjoy the learning that I have achieved throughout all my courses on building websites, hyperlink, and inserting images to make an enjoyable site for my teachers at China Elementary School.

What outcomes did you not achieve? What prevented you from achieving them?

One of the outcomes I did not achieve was learning how to edit in Microsoft Movie Maker. I have been working all during the week and could not put no extra time in learning by doing on Microsoft Movie Maker. Time constraints have been very bad for me. My schedule consisted of me working Tuesday through Sunday and I only had Monday to do what I could do to turn in my assignments. This is the reason, I am taking these last few hours on working on my final. I have come to realize that my part-time job was interfering with me actually achieving outcomes that I would like to achieve in my assignments and projects. To correct this, I am terminating my job as of this week, so that in the future my time and effort can be put toward my internship and my achieving outcomes for the rest of my classes.

Where you successful in completing the course assignments? If not, what prevented or discouraged you?

I must say that this question also relates to my job. I have been quiet tired and unable to rest well. My son was recently diagnosed with PDD (Pervasive Developmental Disorder) and psychosocial stress. I have completed most of my assignments but was not able to put forth the effort that I wanted to. I did what I could to get them turned in and submitted instead of realizing the work I did and taking the time to look over it. I was unable to do most of the team work due to not only my busy life, then add in my 23 year old nephew got put in Intensive Care Unit in UTMB hospital in Galveston, TX at the beginning of this week. It has been pretty stressful for me during this course but with the help of my team members and my friends, I was able to somehow get through. God also had a hand in keeping me strong and allowing me to be awake enough to complete what I could on time.

What did you learn from this course: about yourself, your technology and leadership skills, and your attitudes?

I learned many new things from this course. One thing that I did learn was the overall open source documents that are not there and not many educators know about. I personally enjoyed building the photo story. That was my favorite project of this course. I liked it because I enjoy photography and manipulating digital photos by making them look spectacular. I found that my attitude had to stay positive in order for my to complete this course due to all the stress and busyness I had going on. My attitude remained upbeat by telling myself that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Holy Bible, Philippians 4:13) Not only have I been busy with my own life, I am serving on a retreat team through my church. With the meetings once a week, the women have helped me by encouraging me the whole way. My technology skills and leadership skills have gotten stronger through this course and all that has been going on in my life.