Hanna, I can understand the struggle to figure out a place in the curriculum to use a new tool. Have you signed up for the training, or researched on-line training for We-Video that is available? That initial training can help you better understand what you can do. Also remember that the students only need to know enough basics to use the technology for the learning activity you created. This is a “Just enough” focus but provided with the opportunity and resources to do more if they become interested.
I believe that we often try to fit a tool into an assignment because we feel the push to use the resource. I find that I need to step back and look at what I want my kids to know, and then decide what tool to use. Fortunately, creating videos …show more content…
There are several available through https://www.wevideo.com/academy. There are also two different editing modes that you can use to create videos, Storyboard and Timeline. To limit the problems that I could have, I had my students use the Timeline editing mode. I had used Windows Movie Maker in the past and the Timeline looked similar. I chose a couple of the training videos to show each day and only chose ones that I thought we would use. Limiting the bells and whistles allowed for me to emphasis what I wanted the content to be.
Here is an example of what one group of my students did (Habits of Mind – Metacognition), the Rubric I used (Rubric – Kathy Schrock) and I created a Cheat Sheet for students where I copied a bunch of links so they could find resources quicker, and wouldn’t get lost searching. What I wanted my kids to do is to make an association between the Habit of Mind they were presenting by using text and images, as well as analogies to help other students understand their habit. I have found this to be a common use of videos in assignments I have seen.
There is a good article that I read in an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery – which I am a member) eLearn magazine, if you are interested. (“How to Help Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom: The 5J Approach” -
I believe that we often try to fit a tool into an assignment because we feel the push to use the resource. I find that I need to step back and look at what I want my kids to know, and then decide what tool to use. Fortunately, creating videos …show more content…
There are several available through https://www.wevideo.com/academy. There are also two different editing modes that you can use to create videos, Storyboard and Timeline. To limit the problems that I could have, I had my students use the Timeline editing mode. I had used Windows Movie Maker in the past and the Timeline looked similar. I chose a couple of the training videos to show each day and only chose ones that I thought we would use. Limiting the bells and whistles allowed for me to emphasis what I wanted the content to be.
Here is an example of what one group of my students did (Habits of Mind – Metacognition), the Rubric I used (Rubric – Kathy Schrock) and I created a Cheat Sheet for students where I copied a bunch of links so they could find resources quicker, and wouldn’t get lost searching. What I wanted my kids to do is to make an association between the Habit of Mind they were presenting by using text and images, as well as analogies to help other students understand their habit. I have found this to be a common use of videos in assignments I have seen.
There is a good article that I read in an ACM (Association for Computing Machinery – which I am a member) eLearn magazine, if you are interested. (“How to Help Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom: The 5J Approach” -