Week 2: Video Editing and Podcasting

The week 2 assignment was focused on reviewing and becoming familiar with different video editing tools as well as creating a podcast.  I will have to admit I thought creating an audio podcast about a video editing tool was an interesting choice of an assignment.   I would much rather have created a video tutorial using software like Jing or Camtasia, but I was up for the challenge.   I looked at several suggestions given by the readings as options for video editing tools and in the end decided on choosing Windows Live Movie Maker.   This is the program my students on campus will be using and one in which I need to become more familiar in order to assist as needed. Also, many of the other online programs seemed to have issues with extra downloads and such that I thought made them sound cumbersome.  MovieMaker itself was easy to use and to edit a video.  I chose to edit a video clip from last year's Christmas.

The podcast part of the assignment was not hard to put together as I have been using audacity for quite a while and have sponsored a podcasting club at my school.  I kept my podcast simple.