We Didnt Start the Fire

Alright we finally finished our multi-media project. It took a long time but I am very pleased with how it turned out! This movie clip will serve as a great way to introduce modern American to a U.S. History class. It would either be used as an anticipatory set prior to the units of America from about 1945 to 1989. But it could also be used as a summation at the end. It does a good job of explaining the culture and major players of the modern world. One of the Utah State Standards is that students will understand the United States' domestic and international position in the Cold War era. This movie clip gives an overview of that time. The narration that was used was the actual lyrics to the song. We debated putting text in the movie clip but decided that it created too much confusion with how quickly the images were moving.

The next obstacle we faced in using movie maker was how to make the movie clips short enough to go along with the words of the song. It took us a day to figure out that we could zoom into the storyboard part of our movie so that we could make the picture clips really short. We had a few glitches with uploading the movie to youtube but we were finally able to make the movie work. It was an interesting experience using a movie maker program especially one that we were not very familiar with. But I think that overall we made a nice product that could be used in a history classroom.