7:03 am STJA ATT
We’ve just done the first project this year where everyone was required to use imovie. The results were generally quite good: kids seemed to like the project, and they had very few issues using the cameras or imovie. The finished products looked really great. Another positive was that is felt more equitable to have everyone use the same resources than allow kids the choice, which usually means that kids with more access to technology at home make nicer, more professional-looking products on their own time. This was clearly the first time a few kids had ever used imovie, so they had a chance to learn that skill, which is also good in terms of equity.
The downsides were that is was quite time-consuming to allow kids to film and edit using class time, and some were finished so much more quickly than others that it was hard keeping them all on the same task. I had extra work for early finishers to do, but then the kids who took longer to do their movies had to do this work on their own outside of class to catch up.
Ensuring that the same kids had access to the same macbooks from one day to the next to access imovie was also a challenge. In theory, kids use the same machne each time, but it practice several classes and teachers are signed up for the maccart at the same time, and technical issues arise (the cart was not charging at all one day we were working on this project), so it is difficult to ensure that the same machnines are available. Running up and down the stairs to get the macbooks also feels onerous for me. It was much easier to access them when I was on the same floor as the cart. I hope we can move forward with getting something (new desktops, laptops, ipads, anything) down here on the first floor of Newell.
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