CREATING A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ON AUTISM: HOW IT ALL WENT?

#PSA #Material Design #Creating videos

Latterly, we’ve been assigned to prepare a public service announcement (PSA) as a group. I collaborated with two of my friends, Sümeyra and Zeynep, for this assignment. As we were brainstorming on what topic should we choose for our PSA, I came up with the idea of preparing a video on ‘Autism Spectrum Disorder’. Owing to people’s lack of knowledge on what is autism, as a group we reached a consensus on this topic.

At first, with the help of some health websites, we created our own authentic text and divided it into three. Respectively, Zeynep talked about ‘what is autism?’, I talked about the symptoms of autism and Sümeyra talked on tips for the parents. We decided to use Canva for creating our video because it could be used both via computer and mobile phone and documents could be shared with the others so easily. Creating a video on Canva was really easy but there were not many options for adjusting the audio which could be a downside of the app.

In the future, I would like to show this video to my students and give assignments to them for creating their own PSAs to raise awareness. The disorders like autism, ADHD or mental deficiency are serious prevalent disorders which needs to be respected and the children must be aware of their role in these individuals’ life. Instead of ignoring students’ lack of knowledge and condoning the wrong attitudes of the students to these special individuals, as teachers we must show what is right and wrong.

You can find our video from the link below:

https://youtu.be/5khT55-OLts 

By the way, these are the blogs of my beloved friends:

Sümeyra Sabancı: https://smyrsabanci34.wixsite.com/creativeteacher

Zeynep Sude Seven: http://itszesu.wordpress.com

See you soon and take care!

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