Final Project Reflection Paper

My final project consisted of making a digital history on my family’s journey in coming to America from Dominican Republic. The technology that I used to create my project was an iPhone, iMovie, and Youtube. The process I undertook had many challenges. I decided to make a movie, which meant I had to go home for a weekend to video my grandparents and father. I also had to gather documents and pictures to support my movie, which was very difficult due to my grandparents not having many photos from the 1970’s. My father, on the hand, had many pictures of his childhood, so I made him the focus of my movie. In addition, I had to research what was occurring in Dominican Republic during the 1970’s to explain why my grandparents wanted to leave. After I collected all the information, I spent days putting the movie together on iMovie. Unfortunately, iMovie failed me many times, which made my project time consuming. One of my recordings of my father talking about his experience deleted by accident and I could not go home again to record him. Corresponding, I had to record my
The challenges that I faced are everyday challenges for a teacher. For example, I had technology fail me many time while making my final project, but I found solutions that helped me overcome the issues. Today, technology is becoming a huge part of a child’s education and sometimes it does fail to work. As a teacher, I will have to find ways to continue my lesson the best that I can. In my project, one of my recordings of my father talking about his experience deleted by accident and I was unable to go home to record him again. Instead, I had to record my father over the phone, which had a lot of static, but it was able to get my message across. This is exactly what I would do if something does not work as planned in the classroom. I would have to substitute my original plan with a new