On Friday, I got a chance to work with one of our Language Arts teachers on a persuasive movie project she is doing with her students. The students are currently learning how to write persuasive essays, however, they are taking it one step further by creating movies similar to a public service announcement (PSA) using imovie. The students have already added pictures to their movies and as I walked around the room, I was truly impressed with their topics and maturity in discussing some really deep ideas. Some of the topics include obesity in America, solar energy, helping victims of the Haiti earthquake, technology advancement, and treatment of pets.
I was unable to attend the classes where the students were creating their storyboards and learning how to use imovie, which is unfortunate because I would have liked to see how this teacher set it up. I know most of last week was dedicated to researching topics, and then the scripting and storyboarding took place. Their movie is to include both negative and positive aspects of their topic, with a call to action at the end of the movie. This idea seemed to stump some students. I told them to look up different organizations and copy and paste the website URL to a text slide and tell viewers what they can do to help.
One particular group was looking to find video footage of how pets are treated. I told them how they could look for videos on youtube at home and convert the video using a converter such as zamzar.com and then bring the video in on a flash drive. It took us a couple of times of converting the video to the right format to get it to import into imovie. The .mov file is the one that worked. I then showed the students how to take out the background sound from this footage and then they entered the text they needed to finish their video.
All the students seem to be very into the process and are working hard. It's always nice to hear a classroom buzzing with energy over a project! I'm very excited to see their final products!
I was unable to attend the classes where the students were creating their storyboards and learning how to use imovie, which is unfortunate because I would have liked to see how this teacher set it up. I know most of last week was dedicated to researching topics, and then the scripting and storyboarding took place. Their movie is to include both negative and positive aspects of their topic, with a call to action at the end of the movie. This idea seemed to stump some students. I told them to look up different organizations and copy and paste the website URL to a text slide and tell viewers what they can do to help.
One particular group was looking to find video footage of how pets are treated. I told them how they could look for videos on youtube at home and convert the video using a converter such as zamzar.com and then bring the video in on a flash drive. It took us a couple of times of converting the video to the right format to get it to import into imovie. The .mov file is the one that worked. I then showed the students how to take out the background sound from this footage and then they entered the text they needed to finish their video.
All the students seem to be very into the process and are working hard. It's always nice to hear a classroom buzzing with energy over a project! I'm very excited to see their final products!
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