Day 8: Creating Educational Videos

Please note that the due date for the PowerPoint Game assignment is now Wednesday, June 22 at the beginning of class.

Public service announcements have been around forever. It is incredible what an impact 30 seconds can have -- think about Smokey the Bear and the Crash Test Dummies. Using video in education has been around for a long time, but it is just in recent years that it has become simple for classroom teachers and children to create and edit their own educational videos. The Apple Learning Interchange gives multiple examples of using educational video for teaching content standards.

You'll want to review the project guidelines -- but keep in mind that you need not capture more than 5-8 minutes of raw footage. This will be edited down to 2-3 minutes of video. We will use iMovie for editing. iMovie 5.0 is the software available in the iLife suite on Macintosh computers. PCs have a similar software called Movie Maker 2.0 -- but it is not as easy to use in its existing version. You'll capture all of your footage during today's class. On Tuesday, you and your group members will edit footage and complete your public service announcement.