Short Autobiography

Long story short, I was born in a refugee camp and was sponsored to come live in America.  I went to elementary, middle, and high school in the U.S.  Also, I went to college in the U.S. and have earned a masters degree in Education Media Design and Technology.  Currently, I teach high school students photography, filmmaking, and broadcasting.  My mission in life is to "Make the hood all good."  In other words, make the world a better place, and that starts in the heart, because I truly believe that love is the solution to all of our world problems.

One Minute Me Project

1. What skills were you learning during that project?

2. What was your original idea(s) of how you wanted to do the project?  Did it evolve?

3. Were there any struggles during the process of creating your photo/video? What did you do to try and overcome those problems?  What can you do to avoid those problems in future projects?

4. After watching other student projects, how can you improve your final version?

(Below is what I would write up from a teacher's stand point.)

For this project, I was teaching students how to video edit.  They learned how to import/edit/export videos, add text layer, create shape layers, fast forward, slow motion, scale/position/rotation of videos and photos, and many more.  My original idea was to tell my whole life story in one minute, but I ended up needing an extra five seconds for my video.  There wasn't much that I had to learn extra to create my video from what was taught, but I did ended up spending about 15 hours of editing to get every little animated movements just right and then added the sound effects afterwards.  There wasn't much that I could do to improve my video after watching my student's videos.  However, it made me proud to see how my students can accomplish so much in such a short time they spent editing their videos.