Dismissing Video No More: Teachers and K-12 Students Producing Video Messages

To help teacher-learners become familiar with flip video cameras and the use of in-camera editing, groups of three are challenged to present three jokes while testing the techniques of the zoom, animation, lighting, composition, camera angle, and audio. Here are examples of the short videos they create.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dismissing Video No More: Teachers and K-12 Students Producing Video Messages

To help teacher-learners become familiar with flip video cameras and the use of in-camera editing, groups of three are challenged to present three jokes while testing the techniques of the zoom, animation, lighting, composition, camera angle, and audio. Here are examples of the short videos they create.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dismissing Video No More: Teachers and K-12 Students Producing Video Messages

Interestingly, teacher-learners were much more enthusiastic about and gave more credibility to evidence of learning gathered from student samples. Because teachers placed such a high value on the video products as evidence of student learning, samples of student work are provided below. These samples met the criteria for parental permissions and are representative (rather than comprehensive) samples used by teachers to demonstrate student learning.

Kindergarteners presenting weather reports. Still a little work to go on reading cue cards :-)
First graders creating a culminating video for their unit on matter. Students planned and scripted the video; the teacher operated the camera and managed the in-camera editing.
Fourth graders studying motion and energy were challenged to respond to a request from Discovery Channel for Kids seeking science videos to expand their collection.
Fourth graders who had been studying famous Virginians all year took on the principal's challenge to create a series, Virginia Minute, to be shown daily on the school-wide video announcement system. Here are two samples from the series.
Fifth graders using digital cameras, images, and MovieMaker to create museum exhibits for the traveling Smithsonian. Videos were presented to "representatives" of the Smithsonian who visited their classroom and took away a CD.
Seventh graders were hired by the Puffin Publishing Company to plan a campaign to rerelease The Westing Game on its 30th publication birthday. Among the promotional materials they created were television advertisements. The 'marketing director" and "her assistant" from the publishing company were in attendance at the Rerelease party to provide feedback on the campaigns.
The new Fredericksburg Convention Center is opening soon. There first event will be a Trade Show highlighting economic and job opportunities in the Fredericksburg community and surrounding areas. They have gone so far over budget they have little resources for a marketing campaign. High school marketing students take on the challenge of helping. Television announcements are among the promotional material they create.