Lights, Camera . . . Engagement! Three Great Tools for Classroom Video How many times have you thought to yourself, "In what way can I spice up this unit and make it student-centered?" One great way is to let your students be creative using video. With all the tools and technology available, making videos is easier than ever for you and your students. Recently at the annual National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Becky Ellis, Greg Kulowiec and I presented three different ways you can use video with your students in the classroom. Below is the slide show we used to introduce these tools: There are plenty of ideas and resources available through the links we shared. 1. Step A: Sign Up Animoto is an easy-to-use website where you and your students can create 30-second videos for free. Step B: Try It Yourself, Then Show Your Students The great thing about Animoto is that all you have to do is follow the easy steps they provide. Step C: Share with Your Classes Students really enjoyed watching and presenting their videos. 2. Shoot the video. Step A
A Perfect Match: PBS and Student Journalism Few academic courses cater to teaching 21st-century skills better than journalism. In the student newsroom, teens engage in reporting, writing, editing, video production, and live broadcasting. I speak from experience. For all of those reasons, I can’t overstate my support of the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab, which “connects high school students to local PBS stations and news professionals in their community to produce original, student-generated video reports.” Last week at SXSWedu, I heard Managing Editor Leah Clapman, who directs the Lab, speak about what she and PBS are doing to help students produce high-quality journalism—and in so doing, also learn about problem solving, information gathering, information synthesizing, and teamwork, essential skills no matter what profession students ultimately pursue. Curious to learn more about the program, I reached out to Clapman. “Our goal is really not to encourage students to become broadcast journalists, per se,” she says.
Video Projects | Richard Byrne Presents Click here for five video projects that you can try today. 1. Create a short video using Animoto, YouTube slideshow, or 30hands iPad app. This video could be used to introduce a new topic, create a book trailer, or introduce yourself to the class. 2. 3. 4. *Planning the student video project. -How much time can you allot to this project? *Assessing the student video project: pre-production. *Assessing the student video project: post-production. Animoto makes it possible to quickly create a video using still images, music, and text. WeVideo is a collaborative online video creation tool. Creaza Education (www.creazaeducation.com)—not to be confused with a similar commercial product called Creaza—is a suite of tools that I started using this summer. Loopster is a free video editing tool that is more complex than Animoto, but not as full featured as WeVideo or Creaza Education. Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-stylevideos online.
Cinema Paradiso: How to create a winning short video | : the readiness is all One of the biggest questions I got last summer wasn’t, “How was the Google Teacher Academy?” but rather “How did you make your Google Teacher Academy video?” If you want to be accepted to the Google Teacher Academy, The Apple Distinguished Educator Program or the DEN Summer Institute you will need to create a short memorable video. Perhaps you are a student looking to create a video for a contest or scholarship. Now I know what you are thinking. best watched in HD Now I’m not going to tell you how great that video is, I’ll let Science Teacher- Misty White from Texas tell you. “I could not have done any of this without a little inspiration and encouragement. Wow. So I’m going to share with you how I made it, and some personal advice. For weeks Chris Long and JR Ginex-Orinion (a past graduate of GTA-NY) asked me to apply to the 2013 GTA. “just go for it, we’ll figure it out.” So in the middle of the last two weeks of school I had one week to plan, record, and edit a video. 1. 2. 3. 4.
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The DSLR Cinematography Guide What you need to know to make beautiful, inexpensive movies using a DSLR. Now available as an updated, expanded eBook — and still 100% free. Subscribe here to receive the free PDF! If you find this guide helpful, please buy your DSLR gear from the Amazon and B&H Photo links here. Introduction That “movie mode” hidden in the menu system of your new DSLR? As for my own DSLR qualifications, I recently shot two episodes of the WBP Labs/Babelgum show RADAR on a Nikon D90; several behind-the-scenes videos for Focus Features on a Canon 5d Mark II; some other DSLR footage I can’t yet talk about publicly; and I’ve lensed plenty of pre-DSLR projects (e.g. Digital cinematography is changing so rapidly these days that a printed book on the subject will likely be outdated by the time it reaches store shelves; this is especially true when it comes to the rapid release cycle of DSLRs. This guide assumes some basic knowledge of moving images, such as exposure, shutter speed, focal length, and frame rate.
Studio Neat — Studio Neat ISKME GoPro Learning Challenge | OER Commons This Challenge is open to all educators. We’re looking for submissions that meet a few important criteria. * Innovation: The extent to which the idea represents a novel idea for impacting student learning using GoPro cameras. * Efficacy: The idea is do-able, scalable orreusable, and will have the intended results. * Engagement: The idea offers teachers and students opportunities for interactive engagement that are integrated with relevant learning goals. We invite you to submit your proposal online, including a project title, a 500-word description and a visual sketch. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2014. Three winners will be selected by the end of March. Each awardee will win two (2) GoPro cameras to create their proposed GoPro video content,accompanied by at least one complete lesson for teachers to use in their classrooms. Any questions?