EDIM 508 Week 3_Media-Infused Presentation Reflection

When creating a video or short film, it is always important to plan beforehand. Teaching / reviewing content that goes into this planning helps the students be able to think through and solve problems before they occur. It also helps foster the process of organization. Organizing your thoughts and order of shooting is an important skill to have. It allows the students to see the broader picture of the project. By doing this, they are able to synthesize the different scenes, camera angles, and timing of the video.

Through the use of storyboarding and flowcharts, students are able to get all of his or her ideas on paper. Teaching this planning process could be either boring and dry or exciting and thought provoking. Coming up with an interesting way of presenting the planning process is only half of the battle. The other half is having an interesting and engaging way of carrying it out.

I believe that media-infused presentations like Prezi can help foster the development of both the disciplined and synthesizing minds of students and teachers. I feel that they can because it allows for greater concentration and critical thinking. Unlike the typical PowerPoint, this type of presentations has a more artistic appeal to it. A presentation of this nature not only incorporates videos and animation, it also provides a digital artboard for creative possibilities.

Having a blank canvas allows the incorporation of different digital programs and applications. Within my Prezi, I incorporated several videos, sounds, and Photoshop creations. I used Microsoft Word to create documents that look exactly like the document the students would be presented in class and changed them into a PDF. From there I created an office like display with a bulletin board and picture frames within Photoshop. Designing all the different aspects of the bulletin board to look believable involves a keen eye and the knowledge to be able to pull together multiple programs’ output files.possibilities.

 Designing an environment like this as a presentation is exciting and creative. It requires a great deal of engagement and higher learning opportunities. It leaves the mind wondering where the camera or view screen is going to move to next. At the same time, it allows the viewer to easy combine all the pieces of information together much easier than a simple slide show or handout.


My Media-Infused Prezi on Video Storyboarding: http://prezi.com/zfvtilksw0m3/video-storyboarding/

Video Storyboarding on Prezi