Our last technology project is creating a short video on our content area. It's my first time using iMovie and it is a great tool for quickly putting together a video or a timed slideshow with music. I made my video to introduce the fascinating topic of the Golden Ratio (see my video above!). I really like the number of special effects (for text and photos) and themes that is available in iMovie. I also appreciated how easy it is to add and edit the music and pictures. However, I found that some text effects were difficult to work with as they cut off the words that exceed a certain length (even with the smallest font and size).
Overall, I really liked using iMovie and I look forward to using videos to introduce lessons (using them as "hooks"). However, I will probably reserve videos for introducing units since it might become boring to students when used daily (when I run out of cool special effects and themes).
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