Moviemaking
Moviemaking - Using digital video for Macs and PCs
Chris Champion and Brad Shank
Click Here to go to the video clip download site (ask Chris for the password)
Moviemaking is fun and is a great way to reinforce your curricular concepts. You can have students create projects, act out scenes of literary or historical events, document experiments, and have FUN doing it all.
- Atomic Learning has a great primer for the uninitiated: Video Storytelling Guide
- Ricky Okazaki from the University of Hawaii has a great Guide to Storyboarding (planning your movie)
Macintosh: iMovie
iMovie and iMovie HD are two programs that are included with iLife for the Macintosh - now installed on every Mac. You can also buy iLife for older Macs that didn't come with it.
iMovie Tutorials: "iMovie at a Glance" manual and Apple's iMovie manuals website and Atomic Learning videos
Windows: MovieMaker
MovieMaker is included with Windows XP, and you can download the latest version from Microsoft's website.
MovieMaker Tutorials: Microsoft's "How To Use" Guide and Atomic Learning videos
Examples of student-created videos
- Operation Safe Surf - PA Attorney General student video contest
- Learning and Laptops Blog - student responses to "What Does Literature Say About Human Beings?"
(Anne Smith, English teacher from Arapahoe, CO SD)