Blog + Learning Project Post #4 : Trying Out iMovie

This week, I tried experimenting with an App called “iMovie“. This app is intended to guide video creation and editing through a selection of editing tools found in the app. iMovie’s options and features include things like different color and filter settings, transitions, captions, and modifications with the speed or settings on your video. After exploring iMovie, I thought that this app was a great option to use because there were many features that I could get familiar with. In my yoga sample video down below, I incorporated captions, time lapse/sped up clips, and a voice over. I though felt that being able to incorporate a few aspects of this app could show just how easy and effective iMovie can be. I found iMovie INCREDIBELY easy… and had to pay NO money to use all these editing tools. It makes me frustrated when these types of apps need a subscription or fee just to be able to do basic edits or modifications to a video! Overall, I think this app is well rounded, as there seem to be ways you can create “movies” and videos from scratch or templates, add photos or other media, and even edit your projects.

In a classroom setting, iMovie could definitely be used for student group projects or teaching instruction. Students could use this platform as a way to create podcasts, stories or presentations, or present their work in ways that encourage creativity, technological skills, and design. Students can easily use this app in various ways and navigate it easily after the instructional tutorial. Teachers and educators could also implement this as a educational technology by using this platform as a way to record themselves teaching a lesson or instructional video. I think that this could be useful in times where it is easier to record an send/show a lecture or presentation, or a neat way to show a concept that may not be achievable in certain scenarios (science experiment, virtual lesson) .

When we consider the SAMR model through the app iMovie, it is evident that it can be used to enhance learning:

S– Substitution: We can use iMovie as a way to teach the class through a video made by us!

A– Augmentation: Creating a video for students that teaches them something, but has to engage them for a pop quiz at the end of the video. This “quiz” could be an add on at the end of the video.

M-Modification:  Students creating their own iMovie video, that demonstrates what they know and have learned

R– Redefinition: Students could create their own podcast as a project for the class. Students would need to incorporate the use of various tools in iMovie and instead of presenting something, students have the ability to watch it.