#7 Digital Video Goes to School

Hoffenberg, H. Handler, M (2001). Digital Video Goes to School. Learning and Leading with technology. 29 (2), 10-15.

When making their own videos for class, students are developing technical skills, visual literary skills, analyzing, blending and combining information to present to others. Creating a culminating project can have various formats. These formats include video newscasts, documentaries, infomercials, and video clips.

One important thing to note when creating a curriculum with video creating and editing is to create a curriculum driven technology use, not a technology driven curriculum. When creating a curriculum there are some characteristics that are added into the project and sometimes would not be shown in a written paper. Allowing for more self expression of the students. These can include: emotion, culture, memorable experiences, and change over time, phenomenon of nature, slowing a process in fames for better comprehension.

Here are some guidelines to consider for video use:

-Plan ahead
-Use a subject you are familiar about, or study up on the content you want to focus on
-Consider who the audience is and the purpose of the video
-Steps are critical to video success
-Be aware of the visual content in relation to the subject content (Stay on topic)
-Once planned out, shooting the video can start
-Once shooting is completed, the editing process begins.