This week in class we had a visitor from the library come to give us a workshop on video creating and editing using imovie. I was excited because I had never done any video editing before because I assumed it was difficult. I was happy to find that it was actually relatively straightforward.

He began the class with a quick introduction to how we can incorporate videos, animations, and gifs into our classes. I agreed that videos can be very useful in class. In many of the classes that I took last year at UVic, the professors posted review videos or even entire lecture videos. In one of the classes that I observed last week, a biology teacher showed her class a CrashCourse video as a review at the end of the lesson. I think it was useful because the video summarised what she had said in a different way and also showed animations that shared the same information in a visual way.

After the introduction, he explained that the workshop was a flipped workshop where we would work through the activities independently. I think that this was a good method of teaching the workshop because the instructions were clear and easy to follow and I think we learned more by doing it ourselves than we would have by watching someone else do it.

I am happy that we took this workshop. Video editing was much easier than I expected. I think I will use some of the skills that we learned in this work shop when writing my free inquiry blog posts. For example, I think I will embed some of the youtube tutorials I used and I will possibly create a video where I show off my progress so far.