Class-made movies are highly engaging projects that demonstrate comprehension. Using video forces students to make connections, delve to find deeper meaning, and understnd issues and processes. They learn to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate as they create. It involves higher order thinking skills, writing, teamwork, planning, producing and sharing using additional technologies. Video is so versatile that students can learn in every subject area. (C. Jones, Creating Video in the Classroom)
a)Pick one computer to work on for the entire project.
b)Create a folder on the C drive of the computer
c)Save all pictures, movie clips, and sound files that folder on your C drive.
§How to Get Movie Clips and Pictures from your school digital still camera--I recommend using a digital still camera like the Sony Cybershot purchased by your school. If you want to use a different digital still camera, just take a few practice video clips and make sure you can pull them to your computer and into MovieMaker. Click here for Video File Types for MMLive. Hint #1--have students DELETE movie clip mess-ups immediately from the camera and re-shoot the footage. When they are finished filming, the students will only have the video clips they want to use in their project on the camera. Have students shoot small segments of video at a time so there are small video clips on the camera. Hint #2--have students take one digital still picture on the camera--even if they only want movie clips. This will make the copy to folder OR scanner and camera wizard appear when they plug in the camera. If there is not a still picture on the camera, the wizard will not appear. For Flip Camera hints, click here.
§ How to Get Music Clips from Freeplaymusic.com--Freeplay is a great way for students to get music into their movie. There are no words to worry about. The clips can be searched by mood/feeling and are free and very easy to download to use in projects. If you want to allow students to use songs from a CD, you can go to Windows Media Player and "rip" the songs so they can put the song file in the folder on their C drive.
Plan Your Project: Storyboard1 or Storyboard2--which movie clips, pictures, sounds, text will go in which order.
Begin your MovieMaker Project. Save your project to the folder on the C drive.
Save. After you have edited your video (trimmed clips, added animations- transitions-text-music, etc. Save As your Final MovieMaker to the same C drive folder—recommended for playback on your Computer.
Now that you've created your movie, what will you do with it?
1. MBS teachers can upload to their in10sity webpage:
Not a huge moviemaker file. Be sure it is a quick movie clip, or upload the smaller MovieMaker file size (Saving as email format.) Have only one movie file at a time on your school webpage. Be sure to remove the movie from in10sity's server before adding another movie.
2. Save to a pin drive or CD--the students can do this for themselves.
3. The teacher uploads to his/her PosterousBlog. (Just send them an email--our school Outlook email has a file size limit of 5MB.)
What does Posterous do when I attach a video file to an email? They will transcode your video so that you can see it in a flash player right there in your browser. It will even play on an iPhone without flash. They take almost all video files you can think of, and they’ll host the file too, so you don't have to do any work at all. Posterous is THE easiest way to post a video online using email.
Launched in 2006, SchoolTube has grown to become the nation's largest teacher moderated video sharing website, dedicated to supporting educational institutions and all of their students to broadcast, and share original videos through a web experience. Our mission is to provide educators and students a safe and fun video sharing environment to enhance their classrooms and their learning experiences. Check out MBE SchoolTube.
Click here for handout on how to register for a free schooltube account. (2011 the browser interface has changed for schooltube, new handout coming soon.)
Click here for a handout on how to upload your videos. (When you first upload you will select me as your moderator, and email me and let me know to approve your video. Once school tube verifies your identity, you will become a moderator and your videos will be live when you upload them--give them 2-3 working days to verify your identity.)
5. Students and teachers can upload MovieMaker files to VoiceThread. (Remember, it is a good idea to create quick/brief MovieMaker clips--not really long documentaries.) Teachers in MBS have VoiceThread accounts. Student VoiceThread accounts are also available.
