INTRODUCTION
The use of video in education has been around for a long time, but it is just in recent years that it has become simple for classroom teachers and children to create and edit their own educational videos. The Apple Learning Interchange gives multiple examples of using educational video for teaching content standards.
Here is an example of a movie for middle grades science created during a Maymester session of EDIT 2000. Today we will begin our digital storytelling project using iMovie. You will be working in small groups to create an original story and storyboard about your subject area.
First we will look at a few examples of digital stories to gets your brains churning about your own ideas. We will then talk about writing digital stories.
For additional examples of digital stories look at the links below:
University of Houston
The Center for Digital Storytelling
You'll want to review the project guidelines for this project -- We will use iMovie for editing. iMovie HD is the software available in the iLife suite on Macintosh computers. PCs have a similar software called Movie Maker 2.0 -- but it is not as easy to use in its existing version. Today you'll learn the ins and outs of the software.
GROUP WORK
Working with your group members, create a story board for your digital story. Remember that your final movie will not be longer than 2 minutes -- so you don't need to capture more than 8 minutes of footage. You can say alot in 2 minutes - as evidenced by these public service announcements.
While it is important to have humor and creativity as a part of your story - it is very important that your group creates a story that could be used in an actual classroom. What will your story be teaching? How will using your video be better than what is traditionally done for this particular topic?
The Apple Education site gives some tips on making movies -- storyboarding, setting up scenes, etc. It is highly recommended that all group members look over this information before filming begins.
For Thursday (no class on Tuesday, 9/18):
1. Arrange a time to meet with your group outside of class to capture video footage and still images. All group members should be present for this meeting. We will not have a formal class meeting on Tuesday, September 18- so you can use that time for your group's meeting. You must have your footage captured by Thursday, September 20 at the beginning of class.
2. Immediately after today's class, reserve a mini-DV camera in rm 232 for the day/time your group will be capturing footage.
3.Make sure to review the project description to ensure that your group is including all of the required components. Please note that the reflection portion of the assignment should be completed individually - not as a group. The reflection is due Tuesday, October 1 at the beginning of class.
