Students understand what makes a good video to include in their website.
Students apply their understanding to find and perform a comparative analysis of their videos, relative to the goals of their project.
Integrate a web-based video resource into their website and provide context for their video on their webpage
Students understand why to include a video in their website, and what characteristics make a good video to include for their project. Students search the web to find a video relevant and meaningful to their website, and perform a comparative analysis of videos, to find the one that is the best for explaining their problem to their target audience.
In this section students will integrate their video into their website. The most difficult part of this integration will be accessing the video content (e.g. via URL) and providing a preview so that the video appears on the website as a video, rather than as a link to a video. The method by which students upload and access their video will need to be worked out ahead of time by the teachers, and will likely be unique to each classroom.
Students will also need to provide supporting text, so that the video has some context (who, what, when, why, etc.).
Activity 1 (Budget 45 minutes)
Students plan the video applying a few video making tips.
1. Show the class the Award Winning Website Video from 14 to 41 seconds to show how an image and text is used to highlight the intended message.
2. Teacher leads discussion on the characteristics of a good video to help explain the problem and engage visitors. The following points will be used to evaluate the videos in the next exercise, and should be covered here.
How much does this video matter to my audience?
Is this video about the problem we are working on?
Is the message in this video aligned with our message?
Is the video engaging and interesting?
Will people watch this whole video?
3. All students find one video on the internet that they think makes a compelling case to engage the audience with their problem. Note, YouTube videos integrate nicely with Google Sites, so the teacher may want to indicate those are preferred.
Activity 2 (Budget 30 minutes)
Students compare videos and select one to include in their website.
1. Students share videos with each other,
2. Students pull up their website design document. Each video should be judged against their design vision to determine which is the most appropriate. Students should score each video on a scale of 1 to 5 against the following criteria
The video that scores the most points should be selected and added to the website. Students could add other videos in less prominent positions, if they so desire, but should complete the next section (2.18) for all videos they wish to add.
Activity 3 (Budget 15 minutes)
Students recognize video privacy and fair use policy.
1. Facilitate a brief class discussion on the first slide of the Privacy and Fair Use PowerPoint slides.
2. Show the class the second slide of the PowerPoint that answers the privacy and fair use questions.
3. Hand out the Request Permission to Use Copyrighted Work of any image or video that is copyrighted form for students to apply the Fair use guidelines.
Activity 4 (30 minutes)
Students integrate video into their website. If students are using a video from Youtube, students can integrate their video using the Insert-->Youtube Video functionality. Figuring out how to integrate non-YouTube videos can be tricky.
Many video websites provide methods to share their content, including HTML code that students can copy-paste into their website. Other videos will reside on other websites, and cannot be imported directly. The students can include a screen shot of the video, and link out to the hosting website, but will drive traffic away from the website and is a last resort.
Activity 5 (Budget 30 minutes)
Students complete video page. The students add remaining content to their video page, providing background details such as who is speaking, the general topic covered, and a summary of the key points of the video.