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International Teen Life Reflection

Hey,

Here are the reflection questions and answers on my ITL video.

1.) What have you learned about your topic?

In the making of mine and Mary’s video, about bulimia, I have learned a lot of things. Video’s take a long time to make. I think everyone thought we would be done this in 2 weeks. It took a lot more than that. There were complications between Columbia and Canada; it was hard to get the video working once it was sent. I’ve learned how and where to convert files on the internet. Learning how to use Pinnacle was easy and didn’t take long at all. Overall, the hardest part was being in different countries. Mostly because of the problems with the video we got sent at first, but then we figured it all out and we pulled it off!

2.) What have you learned about collaborating locally and internationally?

It was difficult at first to be partners with kidsfrom other countries. But then we got the wiki pages started up, some of us started chatting on msn and it made everything a lot easier. When the kids in Malaysia started posting poems our class started writing feedback, to help improve the poems. Mainly, the thing that kept us all in contact for this was our wiki pages.

When you have partners locally it’s a lot easier because they are right there to talk to whenever you needed them. You can sit there and work together, but that’s not as exciting. They are people we know and see everyday, they are our friends, but it’s fun to meet new people. That is why I really liked working on the ITL project.

3.) What would have made this project easier/better/more interesting?

I think if we did more Skype calls between the groups, not just the whole class, that would be really cool, because then all the people in the group would get their opinion out and improve the project they are working on. It would be even more interesting if the ITL project had more countries in it. It would probably be really hard to organize, but once everything is set up, I’m sure everything would go the way it did with this project. It also would have been cool if instead of Columbia kids did the filming, maybe if it got switched to us in Canada and the kids in Virginia. If the video was filmed by people in Kuala Lumpur that would probably be really cool too, because of their policy that they can’t show their faces online, it would be cool to see how they did it.

4.) What have you learned about telling a story, combining pictures/music/video/voice/text? (Software, story, publishing to the public)

This is hard. If you wanted an interesting video, you have to “weave” all the things together and not have everything in sections. Ex. Pictures first, then text, then videos, then voice. It makes no sense and it sounds boring. To tell a story in an interesting way I would always try and weave everything together. Have text over pictures, music in the background, then have some video, and then cut into the video with pictures or something. Have pictures while people are talking. It looks great when it’s done.