This ended up being a great experience for both me and the students. Knowledge was gained on both sides and the results were great. While the winning video had 120 views, they all were great videos. I decided to reward them all with gift cards for participating. I was thrilled with their effort and am so happy that they are still moving forward wanting to learn voluntarily.

There were several instances that I could find of the #oaktonvisual online, but for privacy reasons, I am hesitant to share that specific information. They did utilize both Twitter and Facebook to share their videos.

 I do encourage you however to check out their first completed news episode, Oakton Objective. The full episode includes the 6 individual news stories they shared in the competition. Click this video to watch.

I have hyperlinked the episode here > Oakton Objective. 

This exercise was great to incorporate into the larger learning process within the Oakton Visual Organization. It's amazing that the students are this motivated to spend all of their free time learning and creating. It's a blessing for the school, the students and myself.

The world of IDT is an always evolving element as I experienced first hand since my last post. What initially was supposed to be a short film competition evolved into a news piece competition. When this project first started, the students were already working on their own project of a news program. They had filmed all of the interviews and still needed to edit them. They felt as if trying to edit the news pieces and create a short film would be too overwhelming given finals for their classes were on the horizon, so we made a compromise. I developed a learning document helping them get through the editing process and publishing their news videos. The document also had instructions for sharing the link to their individual stories on social media and the contest that was to take place. They were still very eager to share their links on social media to compete for views, which was highly encouraging, and I was also able to help them learn more about post-production in the process. So a win/win for both parties. None-the-less, each story was uploaded individually and distributed back to the assigned editors of the pieces and the students have been sharing their individual videos.. The students will fill out a survey next Thursday explaining their experience and use of Web 2.0. I am eager to see who will win and happy that learning is happening all across the board.