My Philosophy of Education

Creating my educational philosophy video was a good learning process. My first obstacle was looking at my educational philosophy - I haven’t written one in more than ten years. It was interesting to reflect upon and acknowledge how it has evolved.   Adding technology was the most obvious change, how far we’ve come in ten years! I did have several other obstacles.

Thanks to the training videos, the actual movie process was simple. I always approached videos using the photos first and then adding the audio. It makes a lot more sense the opposite way. This was probably the most valuable tip I came away with.

The biggest obstacle was not having the right movie making software and my computer would not accept the program I wanted to use. This stalled my project by a couple of weeks. Once installed by the technology assistant, I had little difficulty completing the task and enjoyed it. The next obstacle I had was uploading. I had no problem joining Teachertube, and following the process to upload, but first I was trying to do this on Safari, and I couldn’t upload at all with this browser, so I switched to Firefox. The video would upload, but it would not send the final data. With a lot of troubleshooting and help from Jason Ohler I finally figured out the problem. Due to the remoteness and smallness of our town, our internet connection is slow. I know we have a more powerful connection at school, so I then tried it at school with Firefox and succeeded in uploading my educational philosophy video: All Children CAN Learn

I am currently working on a Bill of Rights project with my students. I incorporated the techniques I learned in this assignment and applied it with them. They have been looking for images that reflect a particular amendment. They will complement the photos with a script giving examples and explaining their amendment. We will share all the finished products in class.