Through the creation of the Osmo Tutorial in Maker Space, I learned several skills about iMove, and about the amazing app, Osmo. During this process, I got to know my peer educators better, and it allowed us to put our heads together to create a sound tutorial on the app, Osmo. Osmo is a gaming system for the iPad. Osmo consists of a Reflector, a Base, and three apps. By snapping the Reflector onto your iPad's camera and placing it into the base, you can turn any surface into a digital, and imaginative, playing surface.
During the creation of our tutorial, we ran into a couple problems. First, it was too loud in The Catalyst to shoot our entire video, so we rented out a room in Bluemont to record most of our video. Another problem that we ran into was making sure that all of us had equal roles in the video. We wanted to make sure that each of us had about the same amount of time in the iMovie, so we had to be aware of how many times one person was recorded for the tutorial. During this assignment, I learned how to create a tutorial that sufficiently reveals to viewers how to play four different games on Osmo. I learned that you have to be very detailed and explicit when explaining to viewers step-by-step procedures of how to play the different apps. I also learned that demonstrating how to play the games would be more effective than just explaining to the viewer what each game entails. iMovie is what we used to film our tutorial on Osmo. iMovie is extremely easy to use. First, you record your videos through your camera on your iPad. Then, you transfer those videos onto iMovie. After all of your videos have downloaded onto iMovie, you can arrange them in any order. Furthermore, you can even cut them down to edit the time of them and when the videos begin and end. You can also add music and change the theme of the movie in the iMovie app. Once you are done creating your iMovie, you can save this to your photos or to YouTube. To access iMovie on iTunes, click here. An educator could use iMovie in their classroom by allowing kids to create a iMovie for one of the content areas they are learning about. Students of all ages love to create and iMovie would give them the opportunity to do so. Additionally, create is the top level of Bloom's Taxonomy. This means that students will likely remember what they learned better if they created something for that content instead of just taking notes or listening to the teacher lecture. Students could work together in teams to work on collaboration and team work to create an iMovie. The teacher then could allow the students to share their movies with the rest of the class! |