Reflective Blog #3

Research that led to the video presentation
Unit three was one of my favorite’s assignments we did this year, I understand the purpose of the heavy work building up to it. A lot of the research we discover wasn’t included in the actual final presentation but played a great role of leading to other references. Before we receive the assignment during spring break I was really concern about this assignment, one because of the time it consumed and second because I never had to make my own video with a presentation and conduct a substantial amount of credible research of my own. It was as simple as Mr.Branstad, it can be fun if you really have everything planned out and simplify the assignment or not be as well organized and have hell completing the assignment. We all started with our own individual work finding information that supported our hypothesis also using what we learned earlier in the course comparing the required readings to our work.
I had an idea of what we were going to do for our assignment so every time I went to ANSER for community service I felt as if I needed to learn something else about the school. I tried to communicate with the students more and see what they were actually learning. When I began my research a lot of things changed on the daily basis. First I support experiential learning especially with a lot of the research I found agreed that experiential learning is way more beneficial. After visiting the school and helping the students in homework club a lot of different thought came to my head. I just didn’t want to ignore my feeling and just agree with most research said so my research question changed after seeing how these students at ASNER were. I thought experiential learning takes away from the main fundamentals of learning. I believe experiential learning is what we need to make things in life flow better but not in elementary or junior high. Those are the day of hard core learning and testing.
So after researching and looking for more information I found nothing that supported my theory of experiential learning not being a great source of learning. There I was again lost, thought through it working on my website and what helped me most was my title. The title to me determined the overall concept of my website. I then came up with converging experiential and traditional learning as one, if I must say brilliant idea.
Video presentation
We first started with planning of what we wanted to shoot in the video. ANSER made it exceptionally easy with how colorful the school was, Ken recorded, Mike conducted most of the shoots and editing and had the interviewing and was the contactor between us and ASNER setting up dates. It was simple gathering all the shoots we need in the video, then once we got to the interviewing we had to schedule all the timing frames when the students and staff were available. After we got all our shoots we began editing and throwing our presentation together. Everything thing we worked well because we all complied our ideas together and put together an awesome schedule of free time to get this done. It seemed like something work related so instead of being stressed out I had fun with, in my interviewing process I thought of ideas to make the video more interesting and developed questions that answered question to people that didn’t were familiar with ANSER. Lisa Cates the service learning partner said she wanted the video on their school official website so we thought the video had to be perfect.