This past week myself and a few of my classmates made a movie for our class assignment. We struggled for a while trying to decide what we were doing. We threw around a few ideas and at first we wanted to do a motivational video, with the theme of "why teach." We had some really inspirational ideas, but when it came down to it, none of us wanted to talk on camera...so that idea was out. For our next idea we wanted to come up with something that had more movement and we could film in multiple locations, but also related to school. We came up with the idea of daydreaming, which is something we all do in class even if we have good intentions. This was a fun way for all of us to be a part of the video. We had four students and one teacher, and excluding the teacher we each had our own dream sequence. Once we had finished filming we took all the video clips taken on my Iphone, and put them into Imovie. After using Imovie for my digital story, I had some experience and was now comfortable with it. As a group we worked with Imovie, putting all the clips together, we also looked for music for each dream scene. Even though some of my group mates didn't have a mac, they were able to learn how Imovie worked and how easy it can be to put together a short movie.
Creating little movies is fun and creative way to get our students excited about learning. Many kids are already making their own videos on youtube, so this is a way to help engage our students, and use technology to get them involved, and working together.
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