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Today’s young people enjoy all types of media and are facile with it. When schools capitalize on this affinity by integrating technologies into classroom activities, students are more engaged. When students are engaged, they are learning.
Using video forces students to make connections, delve to find deeper meaning, and understand 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)
With the advent of inexpensive video-editing tools such as MovieMaker, digital video has become accessible to many classrooms. Students can create professional-looking video content complete with voiceovers, transitions and text effects.
10 Reasons to Have Students Create Videos:
Video Production:
1. is fun – and learning should be fun!
2. engages and excites students.
3. helps students to express a real understanding of core classroom content.
4. helps students retain what they learn.
5. allows students to express their creativity.
6. requires students to practice “real-life” skills of planning and organization, time management, cooperation, communication, problem solving, information synthesizing, leadership and followership.
7. utilizes whole curriculum skills: reading, researching, writing, speaking, listening and math skills.
8. requires students to think at a higher level.
9. leads students to improve their technology skills.
10. helps them to develop problem-solving skills
Creating Video in the Classroom is an article that connects the use of video in the classroom to student created video to engagement and provides 10 Reasons to have students create their own videos; and, 9 Steps to Create a Video. If you are not using video in the classroom please give this a read.
Student Created, 3-Word Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZaM1zSo7VE
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