On Tuesday, June 21 we worked with our mentors again. Since I have never written an article of this magnitude, I was nervous to receive feedback from my mentor, Jill Cassidy, travel editor at The Arizona Republic. When she said to me,"You did a good job. This is a nice article," I said, "That's all I needed to hear; now I can go home." Of course, she giggled because I was laughing. I was just so excited not to hear that my article was a mess. In the end it needed a good overhaul in organization, but the content was good.
Later that day the learning curve of technology pushed my patience. Our video project is such a great working experience. I truly love this aspect because I like to make videos with pictures using iMovie. In fact, I have a couple on my website that I have created. The program I use is very user friendly, and my students like it, too.
However, Final Cut Pro is not as user friendly. In fact, I know my
students would be extremely frustrated with the program. I understand that it is a "Pro" version, which obviously I am not; however, I don't think pro versions should easily crash, which this one does. Over the past two days, I have spent 3 hours working on the video. But due to it's issues, I have actually save no additional progress. The program has crashed on me three separate times. Thus, just like everything else, just because a name has "free" or "pro" doesn't mean it is.Karla Erdman
Freedom High School
Bethlehem, PA
Getting feedback for me was difficult in that I have not had my writing critiqued in many years. I haven't written in many years! My thanks to Steve for filling in for our mentor, it really helped to focus my writing.
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