I am creating a video titled “This Is Me” as a project this semester. It serves as a multimodal presentation introducing who I am and what has brought me to teaching. I am using the video editing program “wevideo,” and learning how to tie in images to musical sound, as well as add in a voiceover to narrate the film. This video introducing who I am, as well as these video editing skills, will be useful in the future in the classroom. It helps to practice creating a multimodal presentation for students, and to accommodate the many different styles of learning that children may have (auditory, visual, etc.). Another skill that I am learning in this project is image editing. I am using many photos that I took in the past, and the majority of them are in portrait orientation as opposed to landscape orientation. Because the video editing program favours landscape orientation photos, I edited many of the photos to make them into squares, and then I used the function of blurring the background so that it incorporates some elements of the photo (rather than being black). Finally, I am learning some audio editing skills in the process of making this video. I chose a musical soundtrack to go along with my narration, and learned to fade it in at the beginning and fade it out at the end (using the “wevideo” editing options). For my voiceover, I recorded myself using the program “GarageBand” (which I learned how to use in my Technology class). I recorded one paragraph at a time, added each paragraph in separately to the video, and lined each paragraph up with its appropriate images.

I am excited to be working on many technology skills in my “This Is Me” project, because they are so useful to bring to the classroom in this technology-driven age. As well, these skills will help to create a classroom environment in which students can learn in a multimodal way.