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Why are using video in your class?

It gives students of all learning abilities the chance to complete a good product. Students remember video content far better than text. It can be entertaining, informative and extemely satisfying.

About Me: (No personal informaiton, just general please)

I teach dedicated IT classes to years 3 through to 12 in a small rural school in country Western Victoria, Australia. We have experiemented with digital video editing over a number of years and have looked in detail at completing enhanced podcasts in recent months.

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What is new? How to improve on what we already do to make it even more meaningful, informative and entertaining.

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At 3:33pm on February 11, 2008, meri walker said…: Vegas came today!! And I might not be paralyzed with fear when I install it now...(grin). The interfaces of video editing programs were just so forbidding to me... Now that I've been through the first one, I'm not quite so overwhelmed...but there's still so much to learn!!!!

Thanks so much for taking time to give me some empathy, Anne.

Right now the only video I'm having hosted is on my own hosting account. I'm going to post another version of it on various hosting sites and see what I get this week. I'm learning that different hosting sites convert the video through their own FLV converters and that these are varying quality.

One hosting site that interests me a lot is viddler.com. Have you seen that site? Especially because you're teaching your kids to THINK in video, that site might be interesting to you and to them... the commenting capabilities seem like they would offer a great way for groups to give each other specific, constructive feedback (in addition to just saying, yeah...i like this part...and oooh, bummer...)

I'd love to hear what you think about it as a teaching tool.

Then, I ran into another site this morning called zimmertwins.com.

Made me laugh and laugh. And it's made for KIDS... you can make cartoon movies using the zimmer twins and their cat... and as a beginner just learning to THINK in video, I can see that playing with the tool will teach me a lot about how to THINK like a videographer.

Love to hear what you think about either or both tools...

At 6:48pm on February 8, 2008, Anne Mirtschin said…: Hi Merri, thank you for that feedback and I have been down your track as well. Last year, I spent 6 months fathoming all this out, although we had used vegas quite a bit. Then I wanted to get it all online in the form of enhanced podcasts which I did through podomatic and then finally used teachertube as well. What do you use to host your video sites?

At 3:23pm on February 7, 2008, meri walker said…: Thanks again for your help, Anne. I finally ended up taking the sound from the PhotoStory file (in wmv) format into ULead Video and I could increase the gain in there. Then I stripped the entire sound track (voice and music) out of the original PhotoStory file and replaced it with the composite MP3 I exported from ULead. This gave me a great final result...

What a lot of learning!!! I ordered Vegas when I got to the end of all this... and my next efforts will start in there, I think. So much to learn... And I really appreciate your help here1 Looking forward to learning more from you and your students' work!

At 1:27pm on January 31, 2008, meri walker said…: Anne, thanks so very much for responding so quickly. It's not that I'm in a panic, but I do feel like I'm out on a limb and don't know how to move from here. Looks like I'm going to need to do the whole sound all over again if I want more control...and if I'm going to mix it in Audacity I'm thinking I might as well use Movie Maker to put it all back together again. Seems like there are more controls in Movie Maker, although I don't see any way to regulate two tracks of sound separately there, either.

Am I missing something? I'm such a newbie at this and I so appreciate your help. Feeling like a kid in your class, actually... Funny feeling as an adult to be so helpless...but that's how it is to learn new things, isn't it?

At 9:27am on December 27, 2007, Paul Hardt said…: Thanks for your kind comments. When I signed up for VIDSNACKS group, I watched the video work you created. I loved the way you engeged the students with media. I know their response was one of amazement. When many students are given specific meaningful production roles, integrating media really creates a team. All barriers fall, there is something which each child can succeed with their production job. Anyway, to answer your question: We use Final Cut Studio. Our immediate audience is through the school network. The show is actually a one a week morning announcement show. Secondly, we reedit out last names & upload it to the district website:
http://www.d300.org/web/schoolsites/eastview/b.2320.html
We've done this show since 2002. We are in production through January each year. Then at that time we commit to a larger research based project or a character educ. project based on student writings. Besides the local school network and the website, we are sending our longer length projects to COMCAST cable tv. They have been kind enough to run our shows since 1982!! Anyway the greatest learning happens on the other side of the set, the kids learn to brainstorm, work as ateam to solve problems and make the learning meaqningful. I'm glad to know there are people like you out there. You are allowing your students to learn while communicating the value of their achievements.