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Creative potential of video in the classroom  

1. Use with eighth grade students in a Title 1 school.  First lesson with the class.

Introduce the lesson by showing students a short documentary about video production and ask students to interpret what goes into making a movie.  Show students the basics of editing in iMovie – I should demonstrate editing my own video.  Have students talk about the pre-production and post-production process in groups.  Have each group edit and make a short two to three minute video involving clips from each group member.  Students practice editing in iMovie and each group should present a video at the end of class.  Students should discuss challenges to making a video with new footage.  Due next class, students should take a few short videos that will be edited in class. 

2. Use with high school students at a private school.

Have students make a video about teaching someone new to video production the process of making a video.  Students must demonstrate teaching video production.  Students should assist their own participants in making a video and document the process.  This gives students the opportunity to become a video steward and possibly learn from a teacher’s point of view about this medium.   Students without much video experience may find this project especially challenging since they will have to learn more about video production before and while teaching someone new to video about video.