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**EDLD 5370 Reflections on assignments in** **EDLD 5363 Video Technology and Multimedia**  During this course I worked whit an excellent team integrated by Michelle Pittman, Christine Maier, Timothy Stanfield, Lucinda Gallegos and me. We produced a PSA named An Oasis of Technology. We integrated the group since the beginning of the course and worked collaboratively in the different stages. She included a narration in the final part of the production.

Based on the original script that was revised during the 3 and 4 weeks we provide the still shots and videos needed. One important step for this process was to obtain the permission from parents to get the shot of the students. Some voice edition and music was selected taking into account the respect of the copyrights.

The interaction between the team members was through the email, group wiki and skype because is an inexpensive and widely accessible that facilitate engagement of the team (Educase Learning Initiative, nd) to discuss t he activities that we had to do. We share our part of the work in the wiki space to integrate the work and we met in skype when we have to take decisions and voted for the best work that finally released in our wiki space and youtube.

Credits and copyright information was provided in the PSA itself and in our pre-production document. I think that one way of improve our PSA is release it to the public and make them comments and suggestions about it. We also incorporated design patterns that guided the production of audiovisuals and sound into integrated multimedia final work (Hauff & Laaser, 1996).

In general, I learned too much about the whole process of production and the different applications that could be used to make products for our students and our teachers. I know that as learned, I am novice. However, I had the vision in what software could be used in order to come up with a good product. Basically, I think that we can use this experience to incorporate the multimedia presentation to activate the sensory memory and working memory to impact the long term memory and make the knowledge more permanent as stated by Doolittle (2002).


 * References:**

Doolittle, P. (2002). Multimedia Learning: Empirical Results and Practical Applications. Retrieved from http://scr.csc.noctrl.edu/courses/edn509/resources/readings/multimediaLearningEmpericalResults.pdf

Educase Learning Initiative (nd). 7 Things you should know about skype. Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7032.pdf

Hauff, M. & Laaser, W. (1996). Educational Video and TV in Distance Education. Production and Design Aspects. Journal of Universal Computer Science, vol. 2, no. 6 (1996), 456-473