PLN 2 semester 2

I just finished reading Ms. Smith's article called, This is Your Brain on PSAs, where she talked about how her 9th grade English class had done PSA's (Public Service Announcements) after completing their position papers. Well being one of the students who was able to do this, I can say that it was very fun to create. At first, in my group, we had a hard time deciding on our topic. We had after all just written a position paper with many facts to support a new PSA of our own, but we all wanted to do our own. We finally came upon the topic of Animal Abuse. It was a great experience and I was introduced to a program called Movie Maker which is what we used to create ours. We used still, slow music, and our voices to try to create a feeling in which people would stop and think. The challenge of making this was trying to not make it so long and to get straight to the point. We had to condense what we were going to say to make it about a minute. I think other classes should try this to, it is a good way to learn how to be persuasive and to get to the point,not to just ramble. I am glad Ms. Smith had us do these, it was fun and creative.