Friday, November 4, 2011

Videos! Videos! Videos!

As most of you probably gathered from my presentation, I feel that the use of video is a fantastic way for students to display higher order thinking while having fun and it definitely engages students of all ability levels in any content area.
Although iMovie is my favorite video creation program, there are no Macs at my school, so the students have to use MovieMaker or their own software.  MovieMaker is not a bad program...unless you compare it to iMovie.  If the students are doing a smaller project with still images, I usually encourage them to use PhotoStory (since they can download it for free at home if they have Windows) or Animoto (since I have a teacher code that they can use to make lengthier videos).
The teachers I work with have made stellar and award-winning projects using these tools and I'm sure that they would all tell you that video projects are worth the time and planning required because students get so much out of them.
Here are a few different videos made with different programs since I couldn't decide which ones to include:

I just made this short intro to Kite Runner to use with my Anticipation Guide when I begin teaching this novel in a few weeks:
http://animoto.com/play/70CuvnIXN9d8QjzxSWS76g


These Public Service Announcements were made (by students) with MovieMaker:


 


I included this video of my baby's first week made with iPhoto to illustrate how we can have fun with these programs outside of the classroom:



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  1. ED 635 B.PipNovember 8, 2011 at 11:56 AM

    I wish I would have known about photostory. movie maker is a little hard to work with when using still images ( at least for me it was). When I used it with video it was fine for making a basic promo video, but when I compare it to the time I used imovie, imovie was much better. Great videos and creative kids.

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  2. CassandraNovember 8, 2011 at 3:50 PM

    Love the baby video...and I have been thinking about you all week...hope work is great, or at least bearable! As for the movies, I had the opportunity to work with iMovie in one class, but haven;t since. My school does not have Macs either, so it is not easily accessible. I do remember liking it much better than MovieMaker, but I LOVE my ipad app because it is simple...gets the point across and helps me with assessments.

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  3. jmNovember 24, 2011 at 4:36 PM

    I love the video you made for your son! And the song by John Lennon is one of my favorites!

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