Part A: Brainstorming Session

For our first meeting we used vyew.com and found that some of us had some difficulties viewing the public document so for out second meeting we used Googledocs and things went much smoother, the realtime editing capabilites proved to be very useful. Using vyew.com did offer the ability to video and audio chat but not all group members had webcams and microphones and sometimes there were problems with audio echoing so we just decided to communicate through the IM feature on the site. As a result of the difficulties we decided to meet on Googledocs for our second meeting and use the IM feature there as well. Once we got past the difficulties of the first meeting things progressed nicely, we were able to communicate without any problems on Googledocs. I had not used Googledocs to collaborate in this way and I was very impressed by the ease with which we could all edit the shared document and format it how we saw fit. This feature avoids the group having to send endless emails in which the intent of the writer can sometimes be clouded by the reader, when you are all chatting in person discrepancies can be cleared up immediately. When working on group projects in the past I have enjoyed the aspect of meeting in person and getting to know the group members a little better but being involved in an online class that is not really possible and I would consider web-conferencing to be the next best thing. All group members were present for both meetings and the chat logs are included below.

Second meeting

https://angel.msu.edu/AngelUploads/Files/bobalik_msu_edu/brainstorming_part2.docx

First Meeting

https://angel.msu.edu/AngelUploads/Files/bobalik_msu_edu/Room_Chat3.pdf

During our first two meetings we decided that we would be teaching how to use the program Windows Movie Maker and we would teach it through the use of Prezi Presentation software.

We broke up the teaching of Movie Maker into the following areas; starting a project which includes uploading and capturing video and pictures, editing a project, which covers video effects, slide transitions, and text and credit editing, and finishing a project which includes how to export a finished movie to a hard drive, disk or the web. The teaching of editing a project will be shared by two group members as there is more to teach in this section. Each group member will have two and a half minutes to explain their section for a total of a ten minutes presentation.

At the conclusion of the second meeting we decided to meet again on the 19th of February to make sure the storyboards are finished, coherent and cohesive with one another.