The Three P's Collide #3

I was able to learn many new things about Native Americans in the West by chatting with my group about our research. I was exposed to more enduring understandings and key terms by working with my peers. For one example, I never considered that even though people in power were causing harm to others, they may have thought of themselves as doing the right thing. Craig enlightened me on this enduring understanding, as well as the understanding that General George Armstrong Custer was harmful to the Indians, even though he sympathized for them. Discussing the topic with my group made me realize that many of the people who were in power of the Native Americans treated the Native Americans poorly, even if not on purpose. Also, I was reminded by my group members that some people would do drastic things to be in power or to maintain their home. For example, Easterners killed many Indians, including women, children and chief Sitting Bull, in order to gain territory and power in the West. I gained a better understanding of the effects that people in power had and the views of the people in power from conversation within my group.

In general, this project was an enjoyable way to learn about our topic, but my group had a few glitches along the way.When we first began making our Videolicious, my group was concerned about the timing. Since we only had about six seconds per image to record our caption, we were afraid that either we would not be able to fit all of the captions in or that we would need to talk too fast. After a few trial runs, we found the right pace to speak in order to fit all of the captions in, and even with two seconds remaining to record! Even though our photo essay turned out to be a success, our introduction slides needed some tweaking right at the end of class, which was frustrating. We learned to only write the major points on each slide instead of paragraphs to read off of. I wish I had the opportunity to help more with the Videolicious App because I spent a majority of the class time creating the introduction slides. Overall I enjoyed creating this project because it was an interesting way to show to the class what we have learned about our topics.

Link to my Video Essay: http://video.videolicious.com/36ab0599-03be-41b5-9984-8c607659400e