How did we come up with creative and innovative ideas during our journey!
This Tuesday we planned to complete our final video that is on defense. Attacking has been a skill that we have been able to show the world from our experience. But there is another crucial skill in basketball defense. If you are an amazing attacker but do not know the skill of getting the ball or not fouling while defense then you might a huge problem on the court. So we decided to record on defense. A channel name ILoveBasketball has also published a video on defense.
Then on wednesday as I was scrolling through our channel I saw that our videos were a hit! I saw that our previous two videos that were on dribbling and layup had around 30-45 views each and the latest of our videos that was on shooting was also becoming a hit! Here is a link so of our channel that comprises all of our videos-how to basketball.
And then I realized that this growth of our videos was due to the ISTE standard 1. Creativity and Innovation, about which I am going to write in my blog post. The main motive of this standard that we as students apply what we currently know and then
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Here is my view on how were we as a whole team able to meet this standard. We discovered that basketball is skill that me, Ayham and Cyrus had a prior knowledge of and still kept in touch with it by the means of playing full large size games during free time. This helps us keep our skills fresh and we will still have the skills in our mind and the right way to apply them when on the court or in game situations. Now coming back to the question of how did we meet this standard I would like to say that having an existing knowledge at this sport had already helped us a lot and we constantly communicated with our fellow classmates for new ideas and even Mr. Mongardi helped us a lot. Mr.Mongardi gave us an idea of having fewer voice recordings and more of text and indeed his new idea has helped us. I think his advice was really helpful. At the end of the first bit of this standard I would like to say that we have met this part of it as we have used our prior knowledge and have taken new ideas from fellow students if needed.
The next bit of the standard says that we as students create an original works by means of personal or group effort. This section says that we as individual students or as a collaborative group create an original work, and so have we done. We as a team have successfully uploaded three videos and are moving on to our fourth upload. This all is a result of continuous collaboration, having a say, keep on generating new ideas, listen to others ideas and take their feedback and all this combined together has helped us to get this success. I would like to say that we have collaborated really well through our journey of this project and have obtained the success we were looking for. And as Henry Ford in his quote said that "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." I would like to say that we came together as a team, kept together during the journey and worked to the best of our abilities to obtain success.
The standards last part says that we make the best use of technology as students, and so are we doing. We have used Imovie to our best and have added voice, some great music, trimmed unwanted parts on the clippings and compiled all the clippings to create great videos after that to explain forward use of technology during our journey, we have published videos and when we see a comment that requests for a newer skill (like we had one on our layup video, someone requested for a shooting video) we went on digitally communicated via a new video. This is not where our interaction with technology gets over we have also seen expert videos on basketball to learn how can we improve. We have used technology wisely and resourcefully and have seen some great results.
Now coming to the final part of this standard which says discover trends and forecast possibilities. When talking about discovering trends, it is the only part where I think we as a team might have not paid that much attention to. For the first to videos we kept the same trend, instead of which we should have discovered or thought of a newer or better trend than the first one. But then Mr.Mongardi helped us in this area. He called us by his table and played our how to layup video. And told us that our voice made it a bit difficult for the viewer to pay attention and he also told us that we had a lot of verbal explanation going on. Then he told us that we could use some textual explanations. This would make it easier for the viewer to pay attention. So in our latest upload that was on how to shoot we tried to follow his advice and after he had viewed the video he told us it was a great effort put in by us and we had done lot more better only we could have added some verbal explanation as it was only textual explanation but he told us that we had done a great job and had a better outcome than before.
Finally I would like to conclude on the standard by saying that the greatest of the innovations would not occur without creativity and innovation. Thomas Alva Edison who was the creator of bulb failed 1,000 times but he did not give up each time he came up with a different idea, a better innovative one, he would discover trends and would come up with a different one each time and then he came up with one successful bulb. If he would have not shown dedication and would have not come up with the creative idea of bulb we would be living in darkness and would have to face lots of problems. The greatest events took place only because of dedication, creativity, innovation and a different idea each time. Walter Lippman in his quote he said that "When all think alike, then no one is thinking." I would like to conclude that by saying that having the dedication and courage to come up with something new, something innovative and trying again and again even after failing several times and the most important doing your best it is impossible for a person to not reach success. The person will succeed and his or her small lamp of innovation,creativity and hard work will turn into one of the brightest light.
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