Video in the Classroom

Course Description

In the past, video production cost thousands of dollars, even to make simple home movies. Cameras were expensive and heavy, video editing required costly high-end computers, and output methods such as DVD were unheard of for home use. New innovations such as lighter, inexpensive cameras, free, easy-to-use software for editing and production, and DVD burners in off-the-shelf computers have now made video making for home or educational use a reality. Not only is video and movie-making fun, but it can also be educational. Teachers have used filmstrips and videos in the classroom for decades. They are now beginning to see the benefits of turning their students into actors, directors, and writers!

Course Objectives

In this course, you will be introduced to the basics of movie-making. In four short-weeks, you will learn how to script and storyboard a movie, how to edit that movie, and then how to produce that movie in a format that can be shard with others. You will learn about the use of videos in the classroom for teaching and learning, and you will also explore how having students create movies can be an excellent teaching strategy. Finally, we will explore two new distribution methods-vodcasting and vlogging.

Measurable Competencies to be developed:

1. Summarize effective strategies for using video in the classroom.
2. Summarize effective strategies for using movie-making as an instructional strategy
3. Develop and effectively design a movie storyboard and script
4. Describe good principles for shooting video
5. Import and edit digital video using a variety of tools
6. Publish and print video to a variety of output formats
7. Create a rubric for evaluating multimedia materials
8. Discuss the implication of copyright laws
9. Publish a vodcast and a vlog.