World+History

My favorite project from World History was the video project. A fellow classmate and myself were able to make a video presentation on the history and evolution of the computer. The purpose of the project was to teach the class the history of something that was invented during the 20th century. My group chose to show the history of the computer.

The video needed to have the majority of the innovations to the computer that occured during the 20th century (all of them would have taken WAY too long). Each innovation needed to be described thoroughly and told how it contributed to computers becoming mainstream.

There wasn't really one thing that I learned that stood out over all of the others. Most of what I learned about computers was very interesting. One of my favorite things was learning about the integrated circuit and how it was so small, yet reduced power consumption by the entire computer.

The hardest thing to do in the project was getting the timing right. The recordings of the voices needed to be timed perfectly with the images shown. Not only did the audio files needed to be placed in the correct spot, but they also needed to be recorded in a short enough time.

To make the video, a lot of research was done. Both myself and my groupmate did a lot of research on the innovations to the computer and decided which ones to place in the video. Once all of the decisions were made, we needed to find images for each innovation and place them into a MovieMaker file. Once we decided what information needed to be said in coordination with each image, our voices were recorded. With images and information, all that was left to do was for me to finish up the editing and present it in front of the class.

Collaboration was the most used quality during the course of this project. I needed to collaborate with my groupmate in order to have a consistent video. Decisions were made and agreed upon by both of us, and then those decisions were acted upon. It takes multiple people to get the voices recorded and timed perfectly, and my group used collaboration to accomplish the task.

Communication was used as well. The collaboration aspect would have been useless without proper communication both inside and outside of school. Some of the important decisions were made outside of school through emailing. Some of the decisions included what song to use and how the video should be put together. Communicating was very easy and simple, thus leading to a high-scoring grade on the project.

To view the video, Windows Live MovieMaker is needed, as the .wmv file is much too large to upload to Wikispaces.