Final Project Thoughts, eh? Well, I thought this was pretty cool, we went through a billion different iterations of ideas and then finally ended up choosing to do a presentation as opposed to choosing to do a video, like we thought we were going to do. It was a pretty big pain to just figure out exactly what we wanted to do, initially we wanted to do a video chronicling teaching people how to play video games, then we found some hilarious youtube videos that we wanted to make into a video project. Unfortunately, as we continued to work on that whole thing, what we did was fail at that. So, the presentation evolved from when you explained to us that a group did a ‘board meeting’ type thing, and that it went over well. We kept trying to come up with various ways to present the material, we thought maybe we could voice over some videos and play those, but then we felt that it might be a little corny, add that to the fact that I’m pretty sure everyone else is already doing a video of some sort, we figured it might be cool to actually have a physical presence with some videos being played.
We initially joked around with Roberto when he was playing World of Warcraft, and started video taping him while he was playing, just making fun of him and what not, but that video ended up being totally worthwhile to the project, and even though I was making fun of him, it explained some social learning aspects that Gee had had, without us even really having read that far into Gee’s principals. Speaking of, Roberto was kind of embarrassed and wasn’t too thrilled that he and Wammith are going to be in the presentation, but don’t worry, I don’t make too much fun of him, I’m nice about it, and all that.
We also went through the thoughts of doing a Powerpoint Presentation, but it felt like it was going to be a little too lame, and very high school esque, so instead, we decided to just have one of us manning videos while the other person is talking and just generally being awesome. We decided to have two videos, as otherwise it was going to be a 20 minute project, and we just didn’t think that was going to be too thrilling for the class, especially when you stated that it was only supposed to be 6-7 minutes. Sorry, we are probably still going to be a bit over. We’ll see though, we’ll see.
I really enjoyed the class, it’s been fun, I learned a bit (I’m already fairly computer literate, as well as internet literate so most of this was really already second nature. Not to mention I am also in another class that incredibly overlaps this one, LIS/ENG 482) and I met a lot of people. Or did I? Thanks Jon, for the great fun, I’m actually contemplating going to grad school for LIS now.