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2)The changes we made were re-recording our voices, putting the pictures in order, adding more detail, and adding our interview.
3)We found our expert by going on google, searching for Red Cross's telephone number, and trying to contact an expert. Our expert Jennifer, added 3 important points which are: Philippines strong natural disasters, the importance of helping out, no matter where we are in the world, and how Philippines is compared to Canada. Something I learned from her was the importance of helping out those people. Also I learned the big differences that Canada has compared to the Philippines.
5) We were successful in finding an expert.
6) I think the thing I was most successful about was finding the expert. I was in charge of it, and I worked very hard on finding that expert. I needed a lot of patience and I found myself patient. I think a skill I am going to be using in the future is movie making, and probably also with researching. I really enjoyed the process in making the movie.
7) The thing that frustrated me the most was the fact that our group wasn't working together in the beginning. One of my group mates was being in charge and telling all of my group mates what to do. She gave us jobs and she split our group in half. I really didn't like that, because we were all supposed to work together as a group. So I stood up and spoke my mind. :D At the end, we all ended up working together and it was a success.
8) I think 2 Minutes to Make a Difference was important for us grade 8's, because we should start being more aware of the world. The differences in people's lives and how important it is to help each other out.
9) I will make a difference in the future by being more aware of the things that I have that a lot of kids somewhere else don't have. For example, my food. I won't waste it by just throwing it in the garbage when I don't want it anymore. I should think of the kids that would die for just a little piece of food. Also, when I'm not using any of my things such as clothes, I will donate it to my cousins in the Philippines who have very little. I am trying to convince myself in donating my money to my relatives in the Philippines, instead of buying something for myself because, right now they are having a very hard time because of personal problems. Doing little things like that will make a difference in the world.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
2 Minutes to Make a Difference Final Reflection
We changed the video effect in the movie , we took out parts that were repeated throughout the movie , a few speaking parts. We also added some new effects , to make it stick out more. The students comments were very helpful , it gave us suggestions on how to make our movie better ,and we used those , to make it better and we did.
My group and I could not find an expert on racism , because it was hard to find someone . We looked to see if there were any people ,who we could get to talk about racism , but we couldnt find anyone.
My greatest success in the 2 mintues to make a difference was getting the iformation together , organized. SO we could get enough information to make our video , and for it to be succesful.The skill i will take with me , was the movie making.
What fustrated me most was getting all the information we had and picking out certain parts to use in our video. What fustrated me was what we were gonna put in our movie ,and what pictures, and voice records. The stratoregy we used was to pick out the most important information ,and picutres that showed the topic well.
The 2 mintutes to make a difference is important because . It gives a chance for kids to learn about whats happening in the world , and get a chance to learn about it. Knowing that there is always a way to make a difference , its important cause we can make a difference. I could make a difference in the future by standing up against racism .
2minutes2010, reflection
When we made our movie the first cut was very good i think, the changes we had to make from the ruff cut to the final cut are that we had to make our sentences more fluent and not st udder. Another change we had to make is we had some bad grammar such as "Tooth brushing" instead of "brushing your teeth". What helped us a lot is the comments left behind on our ruff cut. The Comments that were left were very constructive and very good advice on how to make our movie better that it already was.
Well we did have an expert that my mom was supposed to contact but we unfortunately didn't get the email back on time because he was travailing all over the world speaking and awaring people about global warming and other subjects like that like how to go green. After the final cut was due the email came in so we just contacted someone who interviewed David Suzuki and we had are interview like that. 3 important points that the original interviewer told us is that global warming is the source behind climate change. Global warming can not be stop ed. Global warming will one day cause great damage to the earth.We found our expert through my mom because she works will a lot of different people like that and she happened to know him personally. We didn't find the expert in time for our project because he was travailing at the time and didn't have time to send us an email back.
From our 2 minutes to make a difference project What I think our greatest success is that we put our message across to the viewers and gave them ways to be more green. The skills i think i will take away from this project is all the knowledge i took from this project on ways to make a difference on earth from child labor to going green. That's why i am super glad we did this project because it gave me a lot to think about and how easy my life is compared to some people on earth.
The Most Frustrating part about making our movie was probably the ways to make a difference and just getting all the editing done and uploaded on time. Are strategy we used to finish on time was to go over to Noelle's house every day after school just to get it all done.
I think that the 2 minutes to make a difference project is important to grade 8 students because this is a stage in our lives when we have to start to grow up and mature and start to think of others before our self's.
I will make a difference in the future by taking my time to volunteer over my summer break just to help out in our community.
From our 2 minutes to make a difference project What I think our greatest success is that we put our message across to the viewers and gave them ways to be more green. The skills i think i will take away from this project is all the knowledge i took from this project on ways to make a difference on earth from child labor to going green. That's why i am super glad we did this project because it gave me a lot to think about and how easy my life is compared to some people on earth.
The Most Frustrating part about making our movie was probably the ways to make a difference and just getting all the editing done and uploaded on time. Are strategy we used to finish on time was to go over to Noelle's house every day after school just to get it all done.
I think that the 2 minutes to make a difference project is important to grade 8 students because this is a stage in our lives when we have to start to grow up and mature and start to think of others before our self's.
I will make a difference in the future by taking my time to volunteer over my summer break just to help out in our community.
Ammorn's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Reflection
Please reflect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?
Some changes that we made between the first and the final cut of our movie was stuff like adding voice, making the movie a bit shorter and also adding a lot more information to it. In the first version we made, there wasn't much information because if there were more information, we'd have to add more text and the movie would be longer than 2:30. It was longer than that because we didn't have a microphone at that time. Therefore, we couldn't record anything. I think that the student comments were very helpful, because if they didn't comment on the video, then we wouldn't know what to change when we edited the video. They told us things that we haven't noticed until they mentioned it.
If you did not find an expert tell us why you were unsuccessful. Be honest.
We emailed about 4 or 5 people asking if we could interview them and if they had the time. About 3 of the people responded to our email but the only time they could have an interview was after the movie project was due. So, we couldn't get the interview. We asked the expert if we could interview her online and she told us to send her questions. After we sent her the questions, we waited but she didn't reply, so we couldn't have an interview added to our video.
We emailed about 4 or 5 people asking if we could interview them and if they had the time. About 3 of the people responded to our email but the only time they could have an interview was after the movie project was due. So, we couldn't get the interview. We asked the expert if we could interview her online and she told us to send her questions. After we sent her the questions, we waited but she didn't reply, so we couldn't have an interview added to our video.
What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project. What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?
I think that my greatest success in the 2 minutes to make a difference project was dealing with how to use a different type of program to make a video when my Windows Movie Maker wasn't working. It took us a long time to figure out how to work it, but in the end it turned out great. Although, the program wouldn't let us record our voices and we also didn't have a microphone. In the final cut, we used a different computer, where Windows Movie Maker did work and we had a microphone that time, so it all worked out.
I think that my greatest success in the 2 minutes to make a difference project was dealing with how to use a different type of program to make a video when my Windows Movie Maker wasn't working. It took us a long time to figure out how to work it, but in the end it turned out great. Although, the program wouldn't let us record our voices and we also didn't have a microphone. In the final cut, we used a different computer, where Windows Movie Maker did work and we had a microphone that time, so it all worked out.
What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
What frustrated me during the process of making the movie was having to deal with all the stress, because whenever we planned a day to get together and edit it, there was always 1 person who couldn't go. Also, the due dates were always so early, so we had to rush it and finish it so we wouldn't lose marks. A strategy that we used to become successful was, we divided jobs for each person, so it would all be finished the next time we were together.
What frustrated me during the process of making the movie was having to deal with all the stress, because whenever we planned a day to get together and edit it, there was always 1 person who couldn't go. Also, the due dates were always so early, so we had to rush it and finish it so we wouldn't lose marks. A strategy that we used to become successful was, we divided jobs for each person, so it would all be finished the next time we were together.
Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?
I think that the 2 minutes to make a difference project was important for grade 8 students, such as me because it helps us learn to think about others instead of ourselves. Also, it helped us learn how to try new things like figuring out how to use a program on my own. I definitely recommend that next year, the new grade 8 students should do it too.
How will you make a difference in the future?
In the future I will try to make a difference by telling people to think twice about wasting something, when other people in Cambodia don't get any of it. Also, I would donate clothes, money and food to the UNICEF because they are also trying to help stop child labour. I can't do it all the time, but even once would make a difference. Another way that I would make a difference is, I will help to spread awareness everywhere.
Connor Bonnett's Two Minutes to Make a Differance Reflection
Google Doc
Version 1
Final Cut
Please reflect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?
The most important thing we did was making our movie alot shorter. We reduced the time from 3:20 to 2:30 to match the title of this project 2 Minutes to Make a Differance. Another thing we changed was taking out the words we put and replacing it with voice which helped in making the movie shorter. We had to make are music more quite because we got comments on are video saying it was too loud. We made the pictures go by faster which also helped to make the movie shorter. It was really good to know what people liked and disliked about our movie so we knew what things needed to be changed.
If you did not find an expert tell us why you were unsuccessful. Be honest.
We sent emails to a bunch of people related to child labour projects. We got two responses one from the RCMP and one from a girl working on something in Africa. The RCMP couldn't set up an interview with us until after the project was due. The girl in Africa said that she would set up an interview with us, but when we sent the email she didn't reply back.
What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project? What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?
I think the greatest success about this project was being able to have fun with it. We also got to try and make a differance telling others about what is happening with Child Labour so that maybe they could make a differance in the future too. Working with groups because I think it will help to have teamwork and being able to understand how your fellow group members work.
What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
What frustrated me the most was finding out that there was a change in the date the final cut had to be finished by. It meant we would have to squish all the planning for putting the movie together. We also had trouble with all of our group being together all the time because someone wouldn't always be able to go to another group members house one day. My strategy to becoming successful with this project was not being over worked and everyone being able to agree on what we were going to do with our movie.
Why is the 2 minutes project important to grade 8 students?
I think this is important to grade 8 students because we will learn how to help out others across the world at a young age. Even if it is just spreading the word it will convince others to maybe donate money or help out in any way possible to make life for others good. With everyone helping out at all ages it can make a huge differance in the long run. It also teaches us to be responsible for our world and to take care of everything on it.
How will you make a difference in the future?
I will make a differance by picking up trash that I walk by on the streets and I would like to donate money to things that will help people from the ones strucken by poverty to the soldiers trying to make peace for this world.
Version 1
Final Cut
Please reflect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?
The most important thing we did was making our movie alot shorter. We reduced the time from 3:20 to 2:30 to match the title of this project 2 Minutes to Make a Differance. Another thing we changed was taking out the words we put and replacing it with voice which helped in making the movie shorter. We had to make are music more quite because we got comments on are video saying it was too loud. We made the pictures go by faster which also helped to make the movie shorter. It was really good to know what people liked and disliked about our movie so we knew what things needed to be changed.
If you did not find an expert tell us why you were unsuccessful. Be honest.
We sent emails to a bunch of people related to child labour projects. We got two responses one from the RCMP and one from a girl working on something in Africa. The RCMP couldn't set up an interview with us until after the project was due. The girl in Africa said that she would set up an interview with us, but when we sent the email she didn't reply back.
What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project? What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?
I think the greatest success about this project was being able to have fun with it. We also got to try and make a differance telling others about what is happening with Child Labour so that maybe they could make a differance in the future too. Working with groups because I think it will help to have teamwork and being able to understand how your fellow group members work.
What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
What frustrated me the most was finding out that there was a change in the date the final cut had to be finished by. It meant we would have to squish all the planning for putting the movie together. We also had trouble with all of our group being together all the time because someone wouldn't always be able to go to another group members house one day. My strategy to becoming successful with this project was not being over worked and everyone being able to agree on what we were going to do with our movie.
Why is the 2 minutes project important to grade 8 students?
I think this is important to grade 8 students because we will learn how to help out others across the world at a young age. Even if it is just spreading the word it will convince others to maybe donate money or help out in any way possible to make life for others good. With everyone helping out at all ages it can make a huge differance in the long run. It also teaches us to be responsible for our world and to take care of everything on it.
How will you make a difference in the future?
I will make a differance by picking up trash that I walk by on the streets and I would like to donate money to things that will help people from the ones strucken by poverty to the soldiers trying to make peace for this world.
Binesi's 2minutes to make a Difference reflection
Our project's first draft needed a lot of work. The suggestions we got from our peer assessment really helped with our decisions. Most of our voice overs were really quiet so we had to spend a lot of time fixing that. We didn't like our music so we used my brothers music collaboration CD that had a lot of up and coming artists featured on it. I think we did that just to be sure our music wasn't the same as everyone else's.
Candace was our expert, (the girl running across Canada) and she was very open and sincere when she answered our questions. Lucky for us she was responding from her fan email and wasn't slow when it came to getting back to us, even though she was running all day. The 3 most important answers she gave us were probably this:
What are your thoughts on Canada being the child poverty capital of Canada?
its a shame when i see little children in a soup line asking for food,there is no reason for that at all,canada is ranked 3rd in the world for riches and yet we live in a poor lifestyle.45.000 children in wpg use the foodbank every month
Do you ever doubt that you'll finish your run?
it has never crossed my mind,if i thought about giving up then the run is for nothing..i want the youth to know we cant give up on things that seem hard in life or else your gonna be a failure and life will be hard because we gave up,so kids never ever give up no matter what people say.
This was what she put at the end of the email:
i want to tell the children that no matter how hard life is please stay away from gangs..stay away from drugs..these are very very bad things and they will make your life bad and all its going to do to you is be a bad person..
I learned that what ever you do, do it with pride and with reason. What I think she gave to this movie was a human face. You can tell your audience all of the facts, but you can't just expect people to make a difference without a real role model.
I'd have to say the biggest and most useful skill I picked up was learning how to use a Mac. Just like Harbeck said: "It's like learning a different language."
Other than that, the whole learning how to put equal efforts into a group project was something very important I picked up. I was really stressed out when it came to when I had to organize the garage sale. I didn't know whether I should just trust my group members to deal with the technology stuff that I didn't know how to do, or get mad at them for not making posters fast enough. In the end I did what I was strongest at (organizing and planning) and they acted as my crutches the whole way. I was their little student when we had to put all the effects on the video. I'm pretty sure I wasn't a technology person before the project, but now I know my fair share.
My 2 biggest problems with this project were the slides and the pictures. Their isn't exactly a lot of pictures of Candace Sutherland on Flickr creative commons now is there? So I contacted her and got permission to use the pictures from her website. The only other huge trouble I got into was my research slides. I didn't think I should waste my time on petty statistics for all my slides. So I spent 3 hours figuring out how much it would cost to live for a month in Winnipeg. That was very time consuming, but worth it.
We are at a very impressionable age right now, convince us to be good people before our minds go straight to hell. Pardon my French, but it's true and if no one's going to say it I will. I doubt we'd do something quite this time consuming on both the teacher's and student's behalf at another school. Then again other school's aren't as creative as Sargent Park. I don't think any of us would have developed any character at all without this project, at least not so early on in life. We all need to learn to be good people at some point in our lives, you just taught us to be good people earlier than expected.
I will keep supporting Candace Sutherland with her vision4hope. I don't want to just stop even after we get a grade for this project. 2 minutes to make a difference has just put me in motion for what I can actually accomplish. I just want to keep helping out anyway I can.
Argie Garcia's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Reflection
Please reflect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?
We made lot of changes. One of our most important changes was to make the video from 3:20 seconds down to 2:30 seconds. We also had to put in voices because in the other video we just had a lot of writing which made the video so long. Also, we had to lower the music because people said it was a little distracting. When we were editing he video we also made the pictures go a little faster and we put more transitions to each slide. When we had other students comment on our video, I think it really helped. When they told us how the video needed some changes, it helped because after they pointed it out we looked over the video and we saw what they saw.
If you did not find an expert tell us why you were unsuccessful. Be honest.
We didn't get a expert to interview so I can not answer questions 3 and 4. First we sent out alt of messages to people studying about child labour. In the end we only got two responses. One of which was with the RCMP. We couldn't do an interviews with them because they said they could only arrange an interview in the month of may. The other message we From a girl in Africa. She said she would be happy to set up a online interview with us. We couldn't do the interview because when i sen the message, she didn't reply back to me.
What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project? What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?
I think the greatest success in the project was finishing it. It took a lot of our own time going to each others houses doing the work, sending messages, and most of all having fun doing the project. I think some skills that I will take with me is gathering information. When you gather information it helps because it makes it easier to make sentences because you have all the information written down.
What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
I think we got frustrated with the time changed, how we had to hand it in earlier. When the due date was switched it was difficult because we would have to plan out when we were going to meet and because we weren't too far into the project yet. It was also frustrating when we couldn't all go to a persons house to work on the project, it would either be three of us, or two of us, but in the end we all finally got together many times and finished he project. I think strategies i used to become successful was not to get over frustrated, like don't get angry easily if things don't go the way you want it to. if the whole group doesn't want to put what you said, don't freak out just change what you made and see if they will the next time.
Why is the 2 minutes project important to grade 8 students?
I honestly think that 2 minutes to make a difference is very important because, when we are at this certain age we could start to see what is happening now instead of when it is going to be too late. If we do the littlest things now it could lead up to a big thing in the future. When you are at an older age its harder too see what is happening to the world and the people living on it. People are going through child labour, some animals are soon to be extinct, the would is getting polluted every day because of all those people who don't care enough about the world to pick something up off the floor and put it into a trash can. With every ones help, and all of them pitching in a little bit every day the world might be different than it is now.
How will you make a difference in the future?
I will try to keep donating clothes, money or perishable food items to people around the world who need it the most. I cant guarantee that i will be doing this through out my life, but i will always try to help and try to make everything that goes to the people count.
Noel's 2 Minutes To Make a Difference Reflection
CHANGES
We have made alot of changes in our final video and those are : adding voices , putting different pictures and we made our video alot shorter than before and many more . This small things made our video alot better but we still got good comments in our rough draft and they told us how to make our video better and what we need to work on . I think some of our pictures that we added in our final cut was better than the old video and it really helps to show more meaning to what was happening in cambodia so it will be alot easier to understand .
EXPERT
We tried finding people that we could talk to about our topic and We sent soo much emails and some of them didnt reply and some of them told us that they dont have time and that they were too busy but they told us they would love to help us but just couldnt make time for it .
SUCCESS
I think that my greatest success in this project was gathering and getting information about our topic so we could make a video and also getting pictures to help poeple show what we mean while we talk in the video . but i think the video was our greatest success and we cant ask for more we found it easy because in our final cut we knew what to work on and what to make changes on and we really thank those people who commented on our first draft and helped us to make our final video better .
FRUSTRATION DURING THE PROJECT
one thing that really irritated my group and having problems on was getting an expert because they were all busy and we didnt really solved this problem and another thing that we had problems with was doing our first video because we really had to rush it , we didnt had enough time to make our first video good because everyone was kind of busy with family , sports , meetings and we solved this problem by making schedule and making plans ahead of time
IMPORTANCE
The 2 minutes to make a difference is really important to us because it is only a matter of time till we actually make a difference and if we dont the earth would just come to a point when everything is really messy and messed up , I think that everyone should really start caring about the earth and actually caring about those people on the other side of us who has been struggling ever since they were born .
HOW WILL I MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE FUTURE ?
we could hand out fliers and create a websites on child labour , DONATE stuff that you will not use in the future but still would be helpfull to others and you could donate this to UNICEF , donate money even small amount would mean alot for those people who are in needs , Donating stuff such as clothes , foods toys , money and other stuff that would be helpfull .
SMALL DEEDS COULD MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE !
Elvin Fauni 2 Minutes To Make A Difference Reflection
Google docs:
2) Talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of the movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?
The changes that we made was we added text and getting the comments from other students really helped us. But we should have added our voices but the quality was bad.
5) If you did not find an expert tell us why you were unsuccessful. Be honest.
We didn`t find our expert because we didn`t know who to ask and we didn`t get the chance to.6)What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project. What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?
The success was we finished it in time. Adding all of the text and doing it was really fun.
7)What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
There wasn`t anything hard about making the movie because it was really easy and fun.
8)Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?
It can teach us to be more mature and think about our decision before doing something and to help us learn to do something about the planet.
9)How will you make a difference in the future?
I will make a difference by recycling and all of the stuff I can do to save Earth, one step at a time.
Gilberts 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Reflection
Final cut
Yes the Students comments Did help us fix are video and make are final cut better. The comments told us to fix are grammar cause it didn't make sense. Another thing they commented on is on are spelling mistakes and are font. Are font colors for are paragraphs weren't clear so we had to change the color so it would match the picture and you can see it.
We were unsuccessful finding a expert because there are not that many people that are experts on are topic. But then when we found a expert and emailed him he didn't respond back.
My greatest success was the video. I thought it was my greatest success because It turned out better than I thought It would. The skills I will take away and use in the future are Find better music and pictures to put on a video next time I do this in the future.
The thing that frustrated me the most was trying to speak on the video. It was frustrating because every time we put it on the video you couldn't here it. We solved this problem by speaking super load.
The 2 Minutes to make a Difference project is important because you learn about problems that are in our world today and how you can help with those problem
I will make a difference in the future by volunteering in places that need help or donating money to people who really need it.
Darlene's 2 Minutes To Make A Difference
Google Doc:
Version 1:
Final Cut:
The student comments were very helpful. We followed most of the suggestions that were given to us so that our video would be much better than the version 1. The changes that I made were: the narrated voice, proper grammar, music, full credits, background, transitions between slides, interview, and pictures.
Shania Williams was the one who found the expert for us. Although, Vanessa and I put an effort into finding one, Shania's the one who found the expert. His name is Azad. He once lived in poverty and so.. Shania interviewed him. He left her his number, and the next day or so, Shania and Vanessa came over and we called him. One important point he said was that poverty is when you don't have proper medical attention, proper needs including water, and food to eat. He also said that the people who are living on the street is really not poverty because the have options; whether or not they want to live up on the streets or find somewhere else they can stay at. Azad also mentioned that when you're in poverty, you are somewhat living a simple life because compared to what we have right now, we'd want to ask for more than what we need because we know that we can get it. People in poverty, don't ask for more than what they need because if they were able to get something, it's more than enough. They're satisfied with it, unlike us who are more fortunate than them.
The greatest success in our 2 Minutes to make a difference was finding the expert, Azad. Without having Shania to interview him, our project would be incomplete. The skills that I want to use in the future is having to talk about an issue and sticking to it without any distractions because when my group and I were working on the movie project, the two of them were getting distracted easily while I on the other hand, was working on the movie.
What frustrated me the most was the fact that were not many cooperation from my group. The times that were suppose to work on the movie when we got together, actually never happened. There were many distractions going on. We only got together about 2 times to work on the movie, and it did not go very well. We also had many fights because there was no cooperation or teamwork at all. They somewhat helped me with the script, but I was still the one who actually put it together. How the movie became successful? I told the both of them that I will make the movie myself and do the edits because there was not enough time to complete this whole movie because there was no teamwork at all and there was a lot of distractions. I was really frustrated because not only did I work on the movie on my own, the google docs.. I had to double the work because my group member chose to not do it. She completed it, but not on time for the teachers to mark and so I was very frustrated with that.
2 Minutes to make a difference is very important because it teaches you a lot of things in life. Having to help someone and making a difference in their life is a huge thing. This project is not about yourself but about other people. No matter how old you are, where you are and etc, you can make a difference. Making a difference is a goal that anyone can achieve. This whole project is helping you realize what our community needs and what it needs is respect.
In the future, I will make a difference by helping out others when they're in need of help. I will donate proper needs to the people who are less fortunate than us. I will try to speak out for the people who are not being treated with dignity and respect. I'll help spread the issue and they can spread it all around our community. Having to respect the environment more will also make a difference.
Noelle Cuvos' 2 Minutes To Make A Difference
Google Doc
Version 1
Final Cut
The comments that were received were very helpful. My group and I were pointed out that we had a few grammar mistakes, we studderred and we also did not include an interview. We made changes to our final copy by doing over most of our voice parts over again. Also we included a well brought up point by David Suzuki.
We found our expert by lots of searching and a lot of emails. A couple important points made by our expert -David Suzuki- was that it's never too late to make a difference, but if we don't do anything soon, then it might actually be too late. He said that we can help our earth, but we can't get rid of what already has infected our ozone layer. Also he pointed out to us in the original email that there are many scientists that are looking for ways to stop this problem, and to reduce it bit by bit.
My group and I never really found David Suzuki's email, but we did find a person who did interview David in person. We then asked the interviewer if we could use part of his interview. We did have an actual expert that we did have an email for, but we didn't have a response until a couple days after the due date.
One of the biggest things I will take away from this project to use in my future was probably all the work I had to do, all in very little time. Another thing I could reuse is staying organized and trying to steady my group to make sure they all had their own duties to fulfill.
My biggest frustration through the whole movie making process, would probably having to be making continuous changes with our video. I think it would've been much easier if my group could always be with me as I work on it so i can tell them about my ideas in stead of just changing it , then having them seeing it and not liking it. Also converting my files; the audio and video files. What I did was I simply just made sure I knew what my group wanted that I also approved of before I made the change. Also I made sure I knew what I was converting before I did it so that I wouldn't have to go back and redo the conversion.
I personally think that this project is important for our grade eight students, because I think that it's at this age, we start to realize what's is happening around the world and that things are changing too fast in bad ways. It opens our eyes and makes us aware and gives us advice on what to do about all the stuff happening around us, from poverty in Africa, to pollution in Indonesia. From animal abuse in Denmark, to child abuse in India. All this can be reduced with all our help,
I can't promise I will make any big differences, but in my two minutes video my group and I shared about fifteen easy ways you can reduce global warming everyday. By doing those little things, I know that I will be easily helping my community, city, country and my world.
Thank you.
Kenneth's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference
My Draft xD
My Final Copy xD
The Comments you guys posted up on YouTube (spmath) were very helpful, but the thing about the Microphones is that We don't have any so thats why In the final video we didn't have the talking parts in. I also didn't find an expert because it was Kind of hard to search for a person that knows animal cruelty/abuse.
In the Internet I was trying to search for an expert for our video but unfortunately We had no luck because finding these experts about Animal Cruelty Is not in the internet so that was why we were unsuccessful.
My greatest success was that I made My first video and that I'm very proud of It.
In the future I will be taking my editing skills because I need work on them, also I will be taking The CC Pictures with me and the script that we made together.
The thing that frustrated me most was that my Pictures in the windows movie maker wouldn't upload so I had to think of ways to upload them so I had one way of putting the pictures in, and thats by putting the pictures on the desktop, so that's how I made them not look like X's on the movie maker, that's how I became successful, oh and I self learned this myself on how to put the pictures back.
The reason why It Is very Important Is because When you start this project, then you get to know more about what the project Is actually about and that Is why making your own videos is a way of showing that you can do these things in the future. You can also learn things just by watching the videos and that Its also important that when you do these kinds of projects then you may know what you have done in grade 8. This project is important because you people can self learn things on your own to become independent and also learn more about things like computers. You also learn about things of what's going on In the world and you can picture them In your mind of what is actually going to happen. But from what I heard is that when you try and make a difference then you become happy and try to make more of a difference. Its just like doing good deeds for everyone.
What I would try to do Is that If people start to abuse their own animals then I would step up ask them nicely to stop abusing them and treat them as family!~
Monday, May 3, 2010
Larrisa's 2 Minutes to Make a Different Reflection
Google Doc :
Version 1 :
Final Cut :
Talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of the movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?
The things we changed for our video was our voices because we were too loud or too quiet, while we were recording we made our voices go into a normal paste, instead of talking fast or slow. We changed our voice by making it clearer and understandable, we made few mistakes , example : country : continent. We also added different pictures that matched our script. The other things we added was the interview with Donna Beagle and also how we made a difference. The comments that the students and Ms. Armstrong made was very helpful in making our final cut video into a better one because the students and Ms. Armstrong found the mistakes we made and they also told us how we could make it into a better one. The rubric also helped us make our video successful .
How did you find your expert? List 3 important points your expert added to your movie. What did you learn from your expert?
We found our expert on the internet, by searching "experts on Poverty". Donna Beagle gave some information about Poverty. She also compared Poverty in Africa and to United States. She told us many information about Poverty in Africa, but we couldn't get all the information because the camera didn't have any memory space in it.
What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project. What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?
The greatest success in our project was finding an expert and finishing our video on time and how we paid off our hard work, by getting together and work hard for many hours by making the video better each time. The skills that will take me away and use in the future is finding creative common pictures instead of just stealing other peoples pictures or without their permission.
What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
What frustrated me during the movie process was trying to say the script, because I kept on making mistakes, laughing which took me more than 20 tries. The strategies I use to become successful was to focus, because if I don't then how is our movie going to be successful right? So, I focused, I still made few mistakes, and those mistakes wasn't because I laughed, its because either I read it wrong or I read to fast.
Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?
The 2mintues project important to the grade 8 students is because we learn many things about what's happening to the world and how it's struggling and so we could help to make a difference in the world, and keep making a difference in the future. It's also important because you learn a lot of important things yourself and to your group. It's important because you help each other with technology skills and our teamwork build up each time.
How will you make a difference in the future?
I will help donate clothes and money to charities and many more, at least I made a difference in peoples life's and the world.
THANK YOU !
Version 1 :
Final Cut :
Talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of the movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?
The things we changed for our video was our voices because we were too loud or too quiet, while we were recording we made our voices go into a normal paste, instead of talking fast or slow. We changed our voice by making it clearer and understandable, we made few mistakes , example : country : continent. We also added different pictures that matched our script. The other things we added was the interview with Donna Beagle and also how we made a difference. The comments that the students and Ms. Armstrong made was very helpful in making our final cut video into a better one because the students and Ms. Armstrong found the mistakes we made and they also told us how we could make it into a better one. The rubric also helped us make our video successful .
How did you find your expert? List 3 important points your expert added to your movie. What did you learn from your expert?
We found our expert on the internet, by searching "experts on Poverty". Donna Beagle gave some information about Poverty. She also compared Poverty in Africa and to United States. She told us many information about Poverty in Africa, but we couldn't get all the information because the camera didn't have any memory space in it.
What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project. What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?
The greatest success in our project was finding an expert and finishing our video on time and how we paid off our hard work, by getting together and work hard for many hours by making the video better each time. The skills that will take me away and use in the future is finding creative common pictures instead of just stealing other peoples pictures or without their permission.
What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
What frustrated me during the movie process was trying to say the script, because I kept on making mistakes, laughing which took me more than 20 tries. The strategies I use to become successful was to focus, because if I don't then how is our movie going to be successful right? So, I focused, I still made few mistakes, and those mistakes wasn't because I laughed, its because either I read it wrong or I read to fast.
Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?
The 2mintues project important to the grade 8 students is because we learn many things about what's happening to the world and how it's struggling and so we could help to make a difference in the world, and keep making a difference in the future. It's also important because you learn a lot of important things yourself and to your group. It's important because you help each other with technology skills and our teamwork build up each time.
How will you make a difference in the future?
I will help donate clothes and money to charities and many more, at least I made a difference in peoples life's and the world.
THANK YOU !
Sharmaine's 2 Minutes to Make a Different Reflection
Google Doc:
2 Minutes to Make a Difference: Poverty in Africa ( Version 1 )
2 Minutes to Make a Difference: Poverty In Africa ( Final Cut )
Talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of the movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?
We made many changes in our video. Many of the comments were very helpful and the rubric made us think more on what we need to work on to make it more successful. What we changed in our video was our voices. When we spoke, our voices were to quiet or too fast. So we decided to change it and make it more clearer. We also added our interview and how we made a difference. Mrs. Armstrong was a great help to us. She really caught mistakes that people wouldn't usually hear. One of them were saying Africa was a country but, it was a continent. So we have to redo our script.
2 Minutes to Make a Difference: Poverty in Africa ( Version 1 )
2 Minutes to Make a Difference: Poverty In Africa ( Final Cut )
Talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of the movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?
We made many changes in our video. Many of the comments were very helpful and the rubric made us think more on what we need to work on to make it more successful. What we changed in our video was our voices. When we spoke, our voices were to quiet or too fast. So we decided to change it and make it more clearer. We also added our interview and how we made a difference. Mrs. Armstrong was a great help to us. She really caught mistakes that people wouldn't usually hear. One of them were saying Africa was a country but, it was a continent. So we have to redo our script.
How did you find your expert? What did you learn from your expert?
We found our expert on searching on the internet. Our expert's name was Donna Beegle. She is an expert on poverty In the United states. She gave us plenty of information that we could we and one of them was comparing Africa with the United States. Even though she was mostly dealing with the US. She did give us information on poverty in Africa. Sadly, that information did not give on camera.
We found our expert on searching on the internet. Our expert's name was Donna Beegle. She is an expert on poverty In the United states. She gave us plenty of information that we could we and one of them was comparing Africa with the United States. Even though she was mostly dealing with the US. She did give us information on poverty in Africa. Sadly, that information did not give on camera.
What was the greatest success in the 2 minutes project? What skill will you take away with you and use in the future?
I think the greatest success was finishing the video and I can't ask for more than that. I thought it was a great success because for me this is the first video I have done. We worked hard doing this video and it's finally done. We did our best to make to good, for example, we match our script to our pictures. We did that to make people understand what we were talking about. I know for sure I will take my editing skill because editing makes things more better and so I can improve on it.
I think the greatest success was finishing the video and I can't ask for more than that. I thought it was a great success because for me this is the first video I have done. We worked hard doing this video and it's finally done. We did our best to make to good, for example, we match our script to our pictures. We did that to make people understand what we were talking about. I know for sure I will take my editing skill because editing makes things more better and so I can improve on it.
What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?
What frustrated me was finding an expert. I was incharge of finding someone we can interview. I finally found one and decided to e-mail them letting to know that we were going to interview them. I took awhile for a response because it was soon the due date. Next, we needed a place to call her and it took awhile, but it all payed off in the end. The strategies use used was to use the time very well to be done.
What frustrated me was finding an expert. I was incharge of finding someone we can interview. I finally found one and decided to e-mail them letting to know that we were going to interview them. I took awhile for a response because it was soon the due date. Next, we needed a place to call her and it took awhile, but it all payed off in the end. The strategies use used was to use the time very well to be done.
Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?
The 2 minutes to make a difference project is important to the grade 8 students, because we learn more things. We learn more about our earth and different of places around the world, how they are struggling. Whiling we are learning about our topics,we are also improving our skills. We improve our editing and revising skills but, not just that we learn more about our technology skills too. Most of all, our teamwork builds up. We learn how to do things together. Sometimes we also learn how to do things on your own, to become more independent.
The 2 minutes to make a difference project is important to the grade 8 students, because we learn more things. We learn more about our earth and different of places around the world, how they are struggling. Whiling we are learning about our topics,we are also improving our skills. We improve our editing and revising skills but, not just that we learn more about our technology skills too. Most of all, our teamwork builds up. We learn how to do things together. Sometimes we also learn how to do things on your own, to become more independent.
How will I make a difference in the future?
I will make a difference in the future by continuing to donate money or unwanted clothes to different charities, to help people around the world. I will also make our world more greener and make better decisions throughout my life.
I will make a difference in the future by continuing to donate money or unwanted clothes to different charities, to help people around the world. I will also make our world more greener and make better decisions throughout my life.
Brendan's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Reflection
Google Document
Version One
Final Cut
The comments that were posted on my group's Version One video were pretty helpful. We made some grammar errors and studdered a couple times. We also had problems with our voice. The last problem we had in out Version One video was that there was a long, black screen at the end of our movie. In the Final Cut video, we did out best to fix these problems.
We found our expert by sending an e-mail to someone who interviewed an expert. Three important points that our expert added to our video is it is not to late to make a difference, you can work as a team to make a difference, . We learned a lot from our expert like
We found our expert by sending an e-mail to someone who interviewed David Suzuki.
We found an expert on Enviromental Activism. His name is David Suzuki.
Our greatest sucess in the Two Minutes project was
A skill I learned while we were making this movie and that I will use in the future is.
One thing that really irritated my group and I while we were making out video is that when we recorded out video, our voices were full of static. We solved this problem by speaking louder from a distance.
I think the Two Minutes project is very important to the Grade Eight Students because we, students are the future and we need to make the world a happy place for everyone; humans and animals.
I will try and make a difference in the future by trying to reduce my waste production by using the three R's. I will also try and convince other people to reduce their waste production because it is ba for our earth and every bit counts.
Version One
Final Cut
The comments that were posted on my group's Version One video were pretty helpful. We made some grammar errors and studdered a couple times. We also had problems with our voice. The last problem we had in out Version One video was that there was a long, black screen at the end of our movie. In the Final Cut video, we did out best to fix these problems.
We found our expert by sending an e-mail to someone who interviewed an expert. Three important points that our expert added to our video is it is not to late to make a difference, you can work as a team to make a difference, . We learned a lot from our expert like
We found our expert by sending an e-mail to someone who interviewed David Suzuki.
We found an expert on Enviromental Activism. His name is David Suzuki.
Our greatest sucess in the Two Minutes project was
A skill I learned while we were making this movie and that I will use in the future is.
One thing that really irritated my group and I while we were making out video is that when we recorded out video, our voices were full of static. We solved this problem by speaking louder from a distance.
I think the Two Minutes project is very important to the Grade Eight Students because we, students are the future and we need to make the world a happy place for everyone; humans and animals.
I will try and make a difference in the future by trying to reduce my waste production by using the three R's. I will also try and convince other people to reduce their waste production because it is ba for our earth and every bit counts.
Jenn's Reflection .
^ Version 1 .
^ Final Cut
We didn't make a huge change in the two videos. The comments were helpful and actually gave us an idea so we can do even better for the final cut. I enjoy getting criticism so we can do much better in the future.
Unfortunately , We did not find an expert for our group . We checked the Internet to see if we could find one , but we were unsuccessful.
Our greatest success was I think the voice overs, and pictures. Skills I would take with me in the future might be, to make things more clear (voice overs) and maybe put more meaningful pictures in the project .
The things that frustrated me , was saving the project then going to upload it and we couldn't find it .. This happened about 3 times. But eventually ,we did it right.
I think the 2 minutes is important to grade 8's because it's time to make a change , Now . Were all going to go to high school and being in grade 9 next year and some times things get way out of hand in high school and it's better to learn about it now than later.
I've watched many of the videos from the grade 8 students and if nothing changes now, this world is going to be chaos in the future. So to make a difference , I'm going to be true to all of these issues in the world and maybe influence people from that.
Owen's 2 minutes to make difference 2010 reflection
Other student's comments were helpful because we get to learn from our mistakes and what we are missing.
1. If you did not find an expert tell us why you were unsuccessful. Be honest.
I didn't find an expert because I got lazy and distracted by good movie.
2. What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project?
My greatest success would probably that I got to make a great movie.
What skills will you take away with you with you and use it in the future?
I would take away the skills of finding good pictures.
3. What fusttrated you during the making of your movie?
What fustrated me the most is the writting and researching part before the whole movie was made.
4. Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 students?
The 2 minutes project is important to grade 8 students because it makes them think of the world around them and what is happening to it.
5. How will you make a difference in the future?
I will make a difference by researching for more information about climate change.
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