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Use video production to excite students about researching, storytelling, and sharing their work with an audience.
- One-take videos--record an observation during a science lab, record a short message during a peer review, or capture an important moment in group work. Tools: Your phone, tablet, laptop
- Audio Slideshows (a series of still images with a soundtrack of either music or spoken words)--have students summarize the highlights of an event, the key points in a story, or the results of a research project. Tools: Google Slides with Screencastify.
- Screencasts: Khan Academy-like videos that explain and demonstrate how to solve problems, how to use software, provide a walk-through of a timeline or flowchart, or to simply narrate a set of slides. Students model their knowledge of a process or topic. Tool: Screencastify
- The Documentary/Feature Film: Students create videos to tell a fiction or nonfiction story, a documentary style, news report, or telling of a long fiction story with live action. Tool: WeVideo
Tips for Planning Video Projects
- Keep it short and sweet. A 90-second video that is well planned and edited can be perfect. By putting a time limit on the final product, students have to really think about what is important in the story they are telling or the points they are trying to convey.
- Make students draft an outline before they touch any video editing tools. This will help students focus on the purposes of their videos. Their outlines should include a list of the footage and background images they might want to use, sound effects they might add, a narration and dialogue script if necessary.
- Identify what you're going to assess. It can be easy to get distracted by a good-looking video and forget that we are assessing what our students learned or are demonstrating to us. State the criteria for the final video right upfront. For example, a video project in social studies might include understanding the sequence of events, the cause and effect of events, a diversity of viewpoints, or use of persuasive arguments
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