Week 6

Monday

James did a presentation on the relationship between technology and teaching/learning. Guess it’ll take some time for me to find the balance between online learning and limited screen time/ mindfulness etc. I’m all for self-teaching and things but as we all know, kids these days have WAYY shorter attention span. So how should we do it without ruining the human race? (that’s a bit dramatic lol )

Also looked at how to set up our public profiles (aka how not to let anyone from work find your embarrassing 2009 Facebook photos) and how we can protect ourselves and students online. One thing I’d like to look into is the TikTok controversy and its relations with child protection. As a pop musician, my friends and I have noticed a lot of new songs have blown up on TikTok so obviously a lot of record labels and artists will start releasing content catered to that audience. It’d be interesting to see if it’s worth supporting.

Wednesday-Video Editing with FREE Adobe Premiere Pro!!!!

Today we learnt a few very useful skills. First one is screen capture!! I have a macbook so I could easily record my screen with Quicktime player. It was a function I never knew existed!!

We were given a few videos of James’ guitar midi tutorial (sick midi btw) and we could also choose to film our own. I was feeling a bit lazier than usual so I just used his ones. Premiere Pro is the most professional video editing software I’ve used so far, and it doesn’t lag as much as Filmora, which is a BONUS! I’m really loving the free software!!!

Again, I’m a very visual person. From a viewer’s perspective, I’d definitely prefer a well-edited tutorial rather than something unprofessional. Anyway, this is the video I made (sorry James)