School video? Children behind the camera

With a carefully planned lesson, teachers can tap into students’ inherent interest in technology to teach, well, just about anything. A classroom digital video camera and editing program allow students to be video producers.

By using educational videos as an example to provide students with sounds and pictures and text to support new words and concepts, teachers can use the educational video as a tool for their students to watch and learn to create their own videos. By creating their own videos, students can expand their experience of the topic and understanding of the concepts. As educators in this day and age, teachers know that almost all students are familiar with television, film, video, computer, and cameras, and we can rely on their understanding of formats and media to shoot creative videos that meet with the objectives of the curriculum.

Now create a lesson or lesson series in which they use this knowledge to create your own video.

Begin by identifying the objective of the lesson. What do they need to learn? What new words or terms do they have to learn?

Students need to create a video for their classmates, so they need to understand the concept they are filming. Your initial lesson should cover the objective and include new vocabulary and any important concepts that support the objective. Students should know the basics before presenting the video portion of the lesson.

Now present “video production” as homework. Go over the concepts and then ask them what video can help explain the goal. Connect it to their initial lessons by asking what they need to teach and what new words or terms they need to teach. This is a very important learning element because when deciding what and how to capture the concept with an argument, they engage in critical analysis and review based on the initial objective and concepts of the lesson.

Carefully structure your filming and editing time. By dividing students into groups, you can have them cover multiple unit lessons and then you can have a video team lesson, a video editing lesson with the software, planning and brainstorming lessons, and a time of video production for each group by class period. . Limit your time and encourage students who may be concerned about not “getting it perfect” to meet the requirements in a time-efficient manner. You don’t want them to get bogged down in the details. Encourage your creativity in the brainstorming lesson and your speed in the editing part. Have checkpoints throughout the lesson or unit where they have to meet a deadline for a step in the project and then have them move on.

Students should outline the purpose of their pieces very clearly and then stick to them. Have students review their work to make sure it fits the goal. This is a very important element to learn because they will use it for the rest of their lives in their personal and professional endeavors.

The culmination of the project should be to teach new or expanded lessons using your videos as a supplemental resource for the lesson. The whole class after the actual lesson should have a discussion and offer constructive feedback on each video.

This is a good team or group work project because it will probably be of great interest to students because they will be able to use video equipment and create programs in a format that they are familiar with but with their own unique creativity. Students can assign each other different roles in production and come together as a team. Just like in the film industry you are probably familiar with certain actors and writing teams that make movies.

The potential learning opportunities from this type of lesson plan are excellent. Students will not only cover the original subject area objectives, but will learn project management skills, teamwork, technical skills for using filming equipment and setting up scenes, including filming and lighting angles, software program skills from editing and video editing skills. They will challenge your creativity and see how ideas can be presented. They will be able to test ideas to see how and if they work. Digital video allows many “takes” for you to experiment.

To ensure the success of this type of complex, multi-step lesson or unit, more time should be taken during the planning stage. Plan the whole process. Create simple flowcharts that allow changes to follow discussions or ideas to be absorbed quickly in class. Make sure all equipment is available. If students have their own gear, make sure it’s charged and ready, have instructions for setting up verification, and bring the power cord just in case. Have available digital chips and link cables. Attention to detail will make the lessons run smoothly and therefore more effective and efficient.

The real beauty of this type of lesson is that you can use it for any subject and almost all grade levels. Like a pencil, you can write anything.

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