Before taking this course I had never heard of Eyejot. Upon initial review of the Eyejot assignment I was intimidated. For some reason the assignment title just scared me. It actually sounded like something from a horror film. Naturally I hesitated to start working on the assignment. I don’t know if I thought it would go away or what but I just kept reading the assignments notes and never actually got started. Finally I gained the courage to start the assignment and I hoped that it wouldn’t be as bad as I had originally anticipated.
Early into the assignment my fears subsided but only temporarily. I was shocked at how easy it was to complete the initial steps of the assignment. Creating the account and uploading my profile picture were very easy. I didn’t ask for a whole lot of personal information and it is free so that’s always a plus. Creating the actual video wasn’t bad either. The only problem that I encountered while creating the video was my apparent blinking disorder. I never knew I blinked so many times within a minute. After many attempts I finally gave up on trying stopping blinking and sent the video myself. Then I realized that I didn’t enter any notes, which was an easy fix. I simply went back to the video and went to the note section and add the note. Well that was all good and I felt so stupid for not completing the assignment earlier. Now I’m at the point where I need to EMBED the video to the forum. OMG!!! This was definitely the most challenging part of the assignment for me. I attempted to install the widget as shown in the video and still my video was missing. I reviewed it over and over again nearly two days and still couldn’t get it right!!! Then finally I tried to just paste the link from the icon below the video and it worked. I really could have pulled all of my hair out at this point. But it worked and my video can be viewed here or below this message.
As far as it uses in education I feel that it will definitely be a great tool to use. It’s easy for student to gain access and he / she can decided who they want the message to be sent to. Teachers can even create a class account and have students save their videos under codes names. The possibilities and uses for this tool are endless. I’m happy to have been introduced to it and plan to use it once I began to teach.
My video can also be accessed by copying and pasting the link below.
http://www.eyejot.com/mview?g=29CC556B4F6C80FFFF931294F8
Great message in your video, Hope. You are so right! I had the same problem with Eyejot - I had trouble embedding it, but finally had to ask Dr. Yuen and I was missing one little step - then it worked. That is the hard part sometimes - you try and try and try and it ends up being one little thing!
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