I was looking around on my computer one day, and I scrambled across a program called "movie maker". It had been on my computer for a while (I guess), but I had never saw it. I opened it and I have been addicted ever sense. In movie maker, you can really create a movie and share it. I haven't even begun the half of what you can do on movie maker. Right now, I just import pictures and music and make really nice digital slide shows. I have made some for friends and I made a really nice one for my Mom for Mother's Day. It is a fun program and I would really like to do more with it when I have more time. I love my computer, it has so much "media stuff" on it. When I bought it (almost 4 years ago) The guy was telling me how much of a great machine it was and how it has so much memory and this and that, but as I explored it, I found out it was everything he said it was. I don't want to be a computer whiz or anything like that, but I want to learn the basic ins and outs that can help me use my computer to its full potential. PICTURES are my hobby, and creating "digital memories" via slide shows and mini movies, is something, I want to master. Taking this class (SEFE 230) has really inspired me to learn more about the computer, because it really isn't as hard as I thought. I didn't know my technological capabilities until this class and I am ready to explore more and more. This is a great program, and to link it to an educational setting, the teacher can model (using the LCD projector) how to begin using "Movie Maker" and then from there let students explore and create some type of "mini movie".
It's just a great program and I enjoy using it.
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I have noticed that I have “movie maker” on my computer as well but I never have used it. It always seemed complicated to me. It seems really like a great program from the why you describe it. Is it easy to use? That would be great to be able to make your own movie whether it is for your own personal use or to make a movie for a classroom lesson. The benefits of creating a movie are nearly endless for use in the classroom. I am secondary ed. Social studies and often times students find history boring but this is mainly the teachers fault for not creating a good lesson plan. With movie maker I could create a slide show but add sounds and other things to make it more interesting for my students. Movie Maker seems to be a great tool to be used in education.
MovieMaker works similarly to imovie. So, if you made a movie in imovie you'd have the skills to do windows moviemaker. (Hmmmm...do you have the skills???)
I have also used movie maker. My cousin got married last year and we had all the pictures digitally saved. Since I didn’t get my cousin anything for her wedding I decided to put together a memory of the wedding. I uploaded almost 300 pictures and put them to wedding music and published it to a DVD for her. Its great. I make my self digital scrapbooks on movie maker too. Its great because you don’t have to save all your pictures 2 and 3 times to your computer with editors and such like that.
I looked on my computer the other day and I found that have "Movie Maker Plus" on it, so I started messing around with it and I found that I can take downloaded history movies and add famous speeches in middle of them, where they are appropriate. I will definitely use this in my classroom to personally edit the "boring and dry" parts of the films I want to show. The only problem I had with it was putting it on a CD and on my Jump Drive and having it play as I edited it. So if you have any suggestions on how to get it to work properly please let me know. This goes for you too Mseviltchr.
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