Videos

For our practicum we are required to videotape our classroom. While getting my undergraduate degree we just had advisers come to our classroom and watch us teach, so this was very new to me. I checked out a digital video recorder from my school library and taped my class during a reading lesson last week. That's when my technology issues began. We are required to turn in our video on either a DVD or VHS. The camera I used recorded to a DC tape. I thought okay, well I can burn it to a DVD from my computer. Well, I didn't have a cable to connect the computer to the camcorder. I found someone and got the movie downloaded! I thought my problems were over, so I used MovieMaker to finish up my video and adjust the audio. Then I got ready to burn it to a DVD. To my surprise, MovieMaker does not allow you to burn to DVD, only CD!!! I had to save it as a .wmv file and cross my fingers that I can find a way to get a .wmv file to a DVD. Another difficulty with it is that I did it on my school computer, which doesn't easily allow us to download programs which might help. Our media specialist is working with me to fix this, so hopefully with some luck I will be able to get it to a DVD. (Let me know if you have any ideas.) If not, I guess I'll have to find another camera and tape again. I guess what I learned from this experience is that with technology you need to research it and plan ahead!