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ISTE Standard: Creative Communicator
ISTE Standard: Creative Communicator
Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital media appropriate to their goals.
Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models, or simulations.
Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.
To0l Overview: Video Editing Software
To0l Overview: Video Editing Software
There are plenty of good reasons to create your own videos, and it keeps getting easier and easier to do so. There's no shortage of good video-making tools out there, many of which will let you create a full blown video from scratch (provided you have recording equipment and internet access, of course).
As far as the ISTE standards go, having students make videos is a decent way to check off a lot of boxes! This week's standard that stands out the most to me is 6b: "Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations." Any decent video editing program will let you do either one (or both) of those things—you can arrange, cut, distort, sync, embellish, and otherwise edit a bunch of formerly unrelated media files into a cohesive end product, which you can tailor to a specific purpose and audience. It isn't necessarily easy, but it's not exactly rocket science, either.
In case you missed it on the welcome page, please check out the video below for an introduction to the website and a small sample of what a super-amateur videographer can do with a little time and some free software.
"WeVideo Logo" & "Movavi Logo" images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
To0l Review(s):
To0l Review(s):
Movavi & WeVideo
Movavi & WeVideo
I used both Movavi and WeVideo to prepare this part of the website. So I hope you're hungry for knowledge, dear reader, because this week I'm coming to the table with twice the expected number of tech tools. Let me cut to the chase: of these two programs, I prefer Movavi. I ran into a few problems with it, especially when it was time to export my video, but I didn't hit any snags that took more than 15 minutes to troubleshoot.
I ended up using Movavi for everything except the credits—and after adding the credits with WeVideo, I think I'd just do the whole thing in Movavi next time. WeVideo almost never worked the way I expected it to—kind of amazing, considering I only used it for one tiny part of this project. It's also exclusively in-browser, which really rubs me the wrong way. The real deal-breaker, though, was that WeVideo couldn't do anything with my green screen. I'm not joking when I say that I could get it to key out my skin way easier than I could get it to key out the screen specifically manufactured to be keyed out.
To be fair, I didn't have my screen set up properly. It was wrinkly and poorly lit, and it's really hard to exaggerate how important that stuff is. Still, Movavi managed to pick it up and run with it pretty easily! I think green screen is funnier when it's only kind of working, so I was happy with what I got. If I had to guess, though, I think Movavi would probably do pretty well with a proper setup.
My Recommendation
Truthfully, I think both of these programs are pretty cool. I scanned a handful of tier lists for free video editing software, and neither Movavi nor WeVideo showed up on any of them. Since either program is pretty workable, I take it as a good sign that there are lots of programs which are probably easier to use and have better features. I'll probably keep using Movavi, since I have a little experience with it, but if you're brand new to the scene, I'd recommend doing a little bit of digging before you marry yourself to any particular software.
Unless you have a Mac. It's not that I have a problem with Mac users, but if you have a Mac, you and I both know that you aren't here to read my recommendations on free video editing software. We get it. You have iMovie. Go write about it on your own damn blog.
TL;DR
There are tons of programs you can use to make videos. Movavi and WeVideo are good, not great.
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