Re: Writers Block!!!

More | Report Post

Definitely create a transcript if you can. I know it's
time-consuming, but SO useful for analyzing and then documenting
in your write-up. Also, you might try stepping away for a few
days and coming back and watching it again. You might have a
different perspective after some time away.

Have you had anyone watch it with you? Sometimes other people
might see/hear things you might miss.

On 12/30/11, joy wrote:
> On 12/30/11, LLB wrote:
>> I am working on Entry 3 for adol. math and I am stuck. I
>> have the 15 minute video done and I am on page 6 of the
>> written commentary. I don't know how to start analyzing teh
>> video. HELP please!!!!!
>
> I worked on one of the video entries for three years, and
> analyzing the video was always difficult. I felt that I was
> just using up the recommended space by describing what was
> happening in the video.
>
> During my third attempt, I made up a chart with three
> columns: a column listing which minute of the video; a column
> describing the actions of students & teacher; and a column
> describing my thoughts at the time - my decisions and the
> reasoning behind them, things I was trying to avoid or head
> off, adjustments I was making and why, etc. I did a row for
> each minute of my video (I had learned to always tape more
> than 15 minutes and then pull out the best 15 minute segment).
>
> That's when I realized that the scorers could see the first
> two columns in the video, but not the third column, which was
> what I needed to be writing about - the stuff in my mind that
> they couldn't see. That's when the video analysis section
> became like the other sections, a case of cutting to fit the
> space rather than filling up the space. And . . . that's when
> my score more than doubled the previous score.
>
> Best of luck to all candidates writing & re-writing (and re-
> writing) your entries!

Posts on this thread, including this one