Philosophy Reflection

Writing and putting together my video presentation was an interesting process. Things that I thought would go smoothly didn't, and things that I thought would be difficult, weren't. Three things that I found worked well were:

• Already having a stockpile of pictures and video I had been taking since the beginning of the semester
• Asking students for tips on iMovie
• Having the tools necessary to make this project

Four things I found difficult were:

• Having to listen to my presentation and addressing all the horrible mistakes (lots of "ums").
• The amount of time it took to put it together
• Having to submit it without it being perfect because I had so many other obligations
• Going through the pictures and realizing I won't have my wonderful students forever. My mentor teacher is going to have to wrestle them back from me

If I could change some things about my video, they would be:

• To have set aside more time
• To tighten the narration to match the images better
• To have more images
• To have a better introduction and conclusion
  

Something that I thought was going to be difficult, and turned out not to be, was finding my philosophy of education. "What the heck is my philosophy of education?" I kept asking myself. When I set that thought aside to cool, I started watching video footage from my class and reviewing pictures. I found my philosophy right there in the documentation.

Overall, projects like this one are fun for my students. From now on, if they do have to something like this assignment, I'm going to make sure there is enough class time for them to get the help and support they need.