Telling a Story with Video

• Adobe Spark for Education https://spark.adobe.com/edu (produces narrated video slideshows)
• Tutorial: https://youtu.be/kxzge9GzVbE
• Teacher PD Course in Spark(3 hours)
  • Alternative: WeVideo for School https://www.wevideo.com/education
  • WeVideo App for Chromebooks https://www.wevideo.com/mobile
• Deliverable: Students film and edit a short (2-4 minute) documentary about a teacher, project, or subject-
• See Examples: https://youtu.be/3VNuJkO6QSw (WPBD)

https://youtu.be/C7wlQG0-3vw (Straw Bridges)

https://youtu.be/MbF_pKxvBXI (Drawing for Understanding)

https://youtu.be/QMVeUBpqT00 (Building Straw Bridges)

https://youtu.be/nRVCwsttUCQ (Using Google Classroom)

https://youtu.be/xDxpa6oc66s (Mars PBL)

Just as students have traditionally learned how to compose effective short written essays to explain and convince( the '5-paragraph essay'), so must students of the 21st century learn to plan, film, and edit effective short videos. Just as expertise in Rhetoric was essential for full participation in intellectual and political life in earlier times, so is Video in the 21st century.

• Video Basics
• Slideshow- Documentary 101
• Mechanics of Documentary Storytelling
• A-Roll and B-Roll: The Two Types of Footage You Need to Tell a Great Story
• I-Movie Basics
• Pixar: The Art of Storytelling
• Filming and Editing Short Documentary Video
• Youtube Creator Academy
• Project: Students film and edit a short documentary about a teacher, project, or subject
• Exemplars:
  • 2.00b:Toy Design https://youtu.be/Wey6WrZupLs
  • Makerworks https://youtu.be/Ec4_s24u1ro
  • 2.009- An Iconic MIT Class https://youtu.be/gXTcY0lO-pg
  • We Are Meche at MIT https://youtu.be/5NWeP8uP-qA ( note simplicity of interview voices)

Google: It Takes a Teacher:

• Engineering/Prosthetics(1:42) https://youtu.be/Z4JSkdUUE7w
• Chemistry/Soapmaking (1:31) https://youtu.be/B2FXk2kNEhQ
• Anna's Story-Art(1:31) https://youtu.be/Q_wOFflwaU4

Deliverable: 3-minute documentary video incorporating A-Roll, B-Roll, Titles, Credits, Creative Commons music