Green Screen Newscasts

In WeVideo Classroom

course description

Learning, Technology, and ACTING! This class is about having fun with your students and super-powering their learning with WeVideo Classroom in any subject area. Writing, filming, and editing a newscast that explains concepts from your content area is an awesome way for students to learn. Whether it’s the order of operations in math, the Boston Massacre in history, or punctuation in English, a newscast is a great way to cement student learning.

Newscast Script Template

Unit Overview

Introduce the idea of doing a newscast project. Set the guidelines and show an example.
Get the students into groups and give them a script template.
Give them time to write the script and help them with the language needed to make the newscast sound real. This is where you get to reinforce the material you are wanting the kids to learn. Think Jig-Saw. If each group has material they are researching and presenting to the class, you can multiple the amount of research done by the number of groups.
Pair groups up to rehearse. Have a tech/camera crew group and a group who practices their newscast for the other group.
Demo how to edit the footage. Consider using the tutorials below. Do this below filiming so you can get the kids into your WeVideo classroom and into their team.
Film the newscasts. As one group finishes, let them start to edit in WeVideo. You can do this by having two SD chips so you can keep filiming while the others start editing.
Present finished newscasts to the class.

Link to the Collaborative WeVideo Classic Project

Link for Students to Join WeVideo

Color Keying and getting into a Wevideo team

This tutorial is good for giving the kids the basic information that they need to opent he assignment and doing the color keying.

Wevideo classroom tutorial

This tutorial is more in depth and covers how to use WeVideo Classroom.

WeVideo Assignment Ideas

This is a new template feature of WeVideo Classroom that allows you to give the students a template. The ideas are from a variety of subjects and inspire creativity.

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