Continuing the reMEDIAtion

Next, I participated in the #donowdance challenge:

Here is the second Do Now post for CLMOOC 2015.
What's your favorite dance move? If you don't have one, you can make one! Capture your moves and share. If you can't capture it through video, describe what your dance would be or looks like. ‪#‎donowdance‬ ‪#‎clmooc‬

To continue my reMEDIAtion, I wanted to explore using video.  Again, utilizing my phone and the default apps, I decided to use a video from my daughter's dance recital.  After a few edits and filters, this is the final result.

In reflection, this is great for me to remember that my students need time to just mess around with tech sometimes before starting a big project.  They can find plenty of bells & whistles on their own, personalize a quick product, and be ready to tackle something larger.  It's worth the time and effort to just let them play it out sometimes.

Finally, just for fun, I made my reMEDIATEd contribution to the #cowremix challenge.  A picture of a cow was posted for the CLMOOC community and we were challenged to remix it.  My remix looks deceptively simple.  However, it was a lot of work as I researched photo editing apps for the iPad, downloaded and tried several.  The final result is a combination of more than one app being utilized for the final result (referred to as app smashing).

So what did I get out of all of this?  A reminder that:

• It's OK to let students play with the tools before starting an activity.
• Look to use the default tools available as the paid "fancy" versions may not be needed.
• Personalizing something is powerful and can make a student feel ownership to the product, the idea, the learning.
• A little humor can go a long way.
• Find activities that require some grit, some perseverance on the student's part.  Let them dig into it and be creative along the way.
• An activity that provides a type of prompt (like the cow picture) can give a student a safe place to start.  Creating from scratch can be intimidating.