Welcome to our Apps OER. After viewing our launchpad video please feel free to join us this week on Weebly for our ETEC 522 Apps OER experience.
The OER team: Melissa Ayers, Patason Brooks, Mike Rae, Ken Stackhouse, Jonathan Tang
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adi 2:48 pm on October 1, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Great presentation! You’re a natural. I’m very much looking forward to learning about Apps. Thanks.
jenbarker 5:42 pm on October 1, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I really liked your use of different backgrounds. Not that it matters, but I curious as to where the video was shot?
kstackhouse 4:53 am on October 2, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks for the comments. The video was shot in Saint John, New Brunswick. I have to give my wife, Laura, credit for spending the day walking around the city filming me. 🙂 She is a good sport. One thing I found interesting was the amount of time it takes to make such a short segment. I definitely have a greater appreciation of what it takes to make news reports or reports like Rick Mercer’s Rants.
teacherben 7:19 pm on October 2, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I have been doing a lot of tutorials to support staff recently and it does take a lot more time that you expect it to (and more than others probably appreciate.) I assume that the more I do, the easier it will get, either because I get better at doing it, or that I won’t be so uptight about seeing myself on camera and all the little mistakes. The changes in scenery do keep us watching. I would love to have a version where you did it all in one spot so I could show both to my students to compare. (I’m not actually asking you to make anther one…)
kstackhouse 5:09 am on October 3, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I actually didn’t do any single takes of the script. I had decided to do a paragraph per scene so I just did as many takes as required at each location. For me the editing part was easy and probably took about an hour using iMovie. We probably spent about 3.5 hours filming. So it took about 4.5-5 hours to make a video under 3 minutes. 🙂
In my media studies class they create three video projects, a commercial, a movie trailer (to a movie that doesn’t exist), and a chase scene (no cars). The students are always amazed that it takes them about three hours of filming for a 3-5 minute storyboard.
Peggy Lawson 7:13 pm on October 1, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Nice intro to your week – you’ve defnitely caught my attention. I’ll looking forward to an interesting week!
Peggy
visramn 5:09 pm on October 2, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Great into. I especially liked the comment about angry birds.
Nureen
C. Ranson 6:08 pm on October 2, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Apps OER Team, great introductory video. Going to visit your Weeblysite now.
Catherine
Eva Ziemsen 6:39 am on October 4, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Just a question, what camera and mic did you use?
kstackhouse 7:21 am on October 4, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks for your interest. I used a combination…my iPhone 4 and my iPad 2…no external mics. There was only one scene where there was a lot of background noise that I had to adjust the audio in iMovie so you could hear me better.
Kent Jamieson 10:21 am on October 4, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
It’s amazing what you can do nowadays with mobile technology and apps. I just finished editing our Grade 4 camp experience using iMovie into a 12 minute video for parents…all on my iPhone! I look forward to learning more this week about apps!
kstackhouse 11:15 am on October 5, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
That is awesome. I was just telling a friend about this ability. He couldn’t believe that the iMovie app was only $4.99! I have only used the desktop version. I heard that there have been a few full length movies filmed using iPhones.
jenniferschubertubc 12:39 pm on October 5, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I’ve filmed a lot of footage for demo videos on my iPhone 4S and have been really impressed with both the quality and the ability to edit “on the fly.” I also do a bit of photography when I can and am always amazed at the quality of the photo editing apps floating around out there. Some of the photos I take on my phone give the ones I take with my fancy schmancy digital SLR a run for their money! (And the phone is MUCH more portable…)
adi 7:41 pm on October 5, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks to this week’s group for an awesome learning experience. Both activities taught me a lot and left me curious to carry on learning. The links to the readings were also very interesting. I did not know there was a difference between an application and an app, or that there are three types of apps: native, web and hybrid, and that some are easier to build, but others to find.
melissaayers 11:07 am on October 6, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Many thanks for the positive feedback about our OER – its very reassuring to hear!