Our+Group+PSA+Postings

Hi Group, This page will be where Laura can post our PSA and allow the rest of us to look at it and discuss it before we submit it. Can't wait to see it.

First Video: @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwcieVMo_EU Jackie: I like it, we need to add our Title to the first shot, and Common Creative License and Credits to the last shot. Do I need to redo my audio? It sounds very soft compared to the others? Let me know, I will do it, no problem? Our final video will have our actual title on it correct? Thanks everyone, great job! Thank you Suzanne for allowing us to use your story to help others, you are an inspiration.

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As a team, debrief about your experiences producing the PSA. Jackie: This has been a very interesting project. First, Suzanne is awesome! She allowed us to use her story to write our PSA. Each member of our group added our own touch to the PSA. While we saw the project from different eyes, I feel that each of our contributions made our project successful. Even though we do not live close enough to meet in person, we used our group wiki and our school email to communicate. I felt we communicated effectively. We worked through each step of the process together offering encouragement and positive criticism. We collaborated and we have created a PSA that I hope will get important information out there and help save someone's life. Pixar's Randy Nelson mentioned three tips for successful collaboration: "accept every offer, make your partner(s) look good, and it is important to have failed and recovered." (Nelson, 2008) Laura, Suzzane, Tammy and I achieved these three tips, and were successful in our collaboration. Nelson, R. (2008). Learning and working in the collaborative age: A new model for the workplace. //Edutopia//. Retrieved April 23, 2009, from []   Suzanne Beaver : I love everything that we have done. Laura, I want to thank you so much for taking on the awesome task of video editor. You did a great job.

This has been a wonderful experience for me to be able to collaborate with a wonderful group of ladies and hopefully educate others about what inflammatory ﻿breast cancer. Hopefully people will watch the video and understand the nature of the disease.

I have also learned that the jobs of video and audio editing can be frustrating, especially when you are dealing with so many different file types. I envy those with a natural talent.

Laura Deiss: I would like to thank everyone for their work to get the PSA completed. I thought we worked very well as a group. Each person took a part in our production offering what they were good at. As Randy Nelson said you should work to make your partner look good. Nelson (2008) I think we did that. I would like to thank Suzanne for letting us share in her story. My mother is a breast cancer surviver and getting the word out to educate as many women as we can on the dangers and signs of all forms of breast cancer is very important. I was very nervous about completing this assignment, I have read and researched about long distance collaberative work but having never experienced it made me apprehensive. Now I can truly say that it is an awesome experience, with this ability businesses and education can find many benefits. There were some brief struggles during the final production working with video sharing files but I found help. I have learned first hand that some software is better than others. Nelson, R. (2008). Learning and working in the collaborative age: A new model for the workplace. Edutopia. Retrieved April 23, 2009, from http[|://www.edutopia.org/randy-nelson-school-to-career-video] Tammy Foreman: Personally, I was not looking forward to this assignment. I am not a very experienced with these types of projects. As a mom, I have done a horrible job of filming my family. As a teacher, I have really only had experience with digital cameras so when this project was assignment and involved videos and video editing I was not that excited. However, as mentioned by Nelson (2008) you should "accept every offer". So instead of feeling bad that I didn't have that talent or desire I felt very relieved that one of our partners, Laura, offered to take that task herself. I am also not very creative so when Suzanne submitted her topic for the group I was also eager to accept. Jackie was our wiki coordinator and did a great job of keeping it updated so that we were all able to communicate our thoughts.

The only drawback that I can see to this type of project is time frames. We are all busy with our lives and even though we are able to work on the assignment individually when we have time others may be forced to wait. For example, I knew I was going out of town so I was trying to submit all of this before Thursday. However, not everyone was finished approving and editing. Then everyone was able to approve yesterday but they were forced to wait on me until I approved today. Laura also mentioned that she had been hurt and is on medications, bless her heart. So although we will all meet the deadline for this project I can see where unforeseen problems might arise and complicate the process.

Although I did not take on the video editing task for this project, I do feel as though this class has provided me with a great experience. I now have a video posted online. I was able to share this video with my parents and actually made my mother cry she was so proud. As a forty year old, making your parents proud of you is not really something that happens much anymore so that was an awesome experience. Now perhaps I will be confident enough to do some videoing of my daughter who is a college freshman and a son who is in 8th grade before it is too late. Thanks so much for the experience.

Nelson, R. (2008). Learning and working in the collaborative age: A new model for the workplace. Edutopia. Retrieved April 23, 2009, from http[|://www.edutopia.org/randy-nelson-school-to-career-video]