http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytFh1sZdUqk
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For the PSA assignment in the mutlimedia class, I was added to a group that already included Jaron Ricks, Sharron Bills and Sarah Arnold. Then during a web conference we met Vicki Fruge and she was also added to our group. When Jaron added me he mentioned that they used Skype to communicate, so I installed the program on my laptop and immediately started Skyping to keep up with group progress. Sharron Bills unofficially served as group leader and organized our group, and we began by just brain storming ideas. I had just read an article about using technology to increase student engagement and recommended the PSA topic of using technology to decrease student dropout rates. The group thought the idea was good, so we automatically started running with it. Several members emailed web articles that they found that elaborated on our topic.
Then we had a conversation about what position in the group we wanted and I volunteered for voice over duties. I had only used audacity once before when we worked on our video editing assignment, but I felt like that would be a great place to begin working. Once Sarah delivered a rough draft script I did a run through of the voice over and emailed it to Sharron to practice editing. We all continued to communicate almost nightly through Skype, not all of it was work related though, we also got to know each other at a personal level which was really great. We are all working for a common goal, but coming at it with different back grounds. At first I was nervous about working with a group of people that I did not know or even live in the same time zone (Jaron), but I truly enjoyed the experience and the friendships that I developed.
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