Hypothetical Classroom Video Assignment Check List:
Content Area: Language Arts; Art
Project: 1 Minute Video Teaching a "How to" Demonstration/scenario
Age Level: 4-6 grade
Preparation:
- Getting permission from the school to use approximately 10 video cameras and microphones
- Getting permission to use the computer lab (ensuring that Movie Maker 2.6 is installed on the computers)
- Knowing how to use Movie Maker 2.6 and Audacity properly and subsequently to explain the program to the students
- 5-7 parent volunteers to help supervise the students--teaching the parents how to use Movie Maker, Audacity, Royalty Free Music, and the cameras as well
- Typing a List of Rules for handling the video cameras and microphones
- Typing a List of Guidelines/Tips for filming
- Typing a paper for the students and parents explaining the video assignment requirements and its overall purpose
- Writing a Parent invitation to the culminating "Movie Day"
- Dividing the students into groups of 3
- Creating You Tube accounts for each student
- Creating Royalty Free Music accounts
- Explaining how to use Movie Maker 2.6 and Audacity
- Teaching the rules of using the cameras and microphones
- Teaching good tips to follow while filming
- Brainstorming "How to" topics that could be "taught" using the camera and filmed in 1-1.5 minutes
- Examples: How to...
- Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich
- Sign your name in sign language
- Brain your hair
- Arm wrestle
- Tell a joke without laughing
- Use the Internet to find information about a research topic
- Jump rope
- Do a hand stand...
- Filming the videos under parent/teacher supervision
- Uploading the video to the computer and then to Movie Maker 2.6
- Designing the video, such as adding music, dialogue, captions, credits, and transitions
- Uploading the finished video to You Tube
- Scheduling a special movie day to watch the finished products, complete with drinks and popcorn
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