Digital Videos

Digital Videos

"When students take the pictures and actively use them for purposeful knowledge, you have a dynamic combination for engagement and active learning." (McAnear, 2004, p.4)
Educational Benefits:

• facilitates communications of ideas, information and messages
• observation and analysis tool used for enhancing observations, performances or experiments reflection tool used to support students learning
• promotes organisational and teamwork skills
• develops higher order thinking and metacognitive skills

Classroom use:

• creating presentations
• evaluation and feedback purposes
•  movie making recording performances

Challenges:

• requires learning managers to invest extra time and energy to develop the skills themselves and transfer that learning effectively to students
• overcoming difficulties with technology 

Although it took some time finding clipart and figuring out what difference the features made, I had lots of fun using Windows moviemaker to create this movie. I incorporated images from a poetry presentation, played music as I recorded myself reading the poems. Great tool for collaborative work and presenting work creatively.
References http://futureofmath.misterteacher.com/digitalcameras.html Lightbody, K. ( 2007). Digital Video In Education, Retrieved August 17, 2010, from: http://www.zardec.net.au/keith/digvideo.htm