Week 10

Student created video projects information:


http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=6758

This site is great because it's specifically a teacher's guide to making student movies. Scholastic is always a great site to work from and this article is exceptional in that capacity. A teacher who has actually done student video projects in her classroom gives step by step guides, examples and student handouts so other teachers can duplicate her success. There is a great list of resources and project ideas that give basically any information any teacher would need, including links to tutorials. So, even if a teacher has no idea what they are doing, they can figure it out before they have their kids do it. I would highly recommend this site for teachers doing video projects, in fact, I'm bookmarking it myself for future use!



http://www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/blog/?p=220

This site focuses more on the "why" rather than the "how" of integrating student created video projects into the classroom. I think that this information is just as important as how to do it because there's no point in having students do something and neither the teacher nor the students knows why they are doing it, and to what end. There are five reasons explained in more detail: student engagement, student achievement, higher level thinking (ding ding ding!), media literacy, and closing the digital divide. It also talks of creating life long learners.


http://www.apple.com/education/digitalauthoring/ilife.html

This site is, obviously, slightly bias seeing as how it IS the Apple site talking about their own programs, but there is still good information there. This site discusses the new Apple iLife 08 which is suite of programs including iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb and iDVD. Apparently, iLife has tools which support the newest ISTE tech standards for students. They also have information on the Escondido Union Elementary School District, and how test scores have supposedly gone up with the use of iLife. I thought that was interesting since it's so close to home and it seemed to be "proof" that these type of student created projects actually help students on many levels.