Movie Making in the Elementary Classroom

Greetings:
I am a Tech Resource Teacher in our district and am the main trainer for Movie Maker/Vista for the city's teachers (around 900 total). We recently ran a city-wide assessment survey and the two top training requests were for Photo Story and for Movie Maker (way too cool!). Does anyone have some really good suggestions/ideas/stories about what you've done in the classroom?
I usually have a waiting list for my workshops and they fill up fast--the interest is there. My next one is for Photo Story for Art teachers in the city.
Many thanks!

Tags: Maker, Movie, Photo, Story

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Permalink Reply by Brian on December 3, 2007 at 9:30pm

Mathew,
Perfect timing--I just gave a workshop for 21 teachers and they were asking for stuff like this--thanks for sharing. I'll post on my blog tomorrow.

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Permalink Reply by ruthokoye on December 8, 2007 at 6:02am

Here's an article on finding podsafe music: http://soundblog.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1pXOS7l93k8mqeQ7FlEEmOSQ!907.entry

Also have you seen the podsafe audio site? http://www.podsafeaudio.com/

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Permalink Reply by Valerie Hathaway-Warner on December 28, 2009 at 2:35pm

Hi - I have worked with Julie at FreeplayMusic.com before, and I know she will arrange for something for your class that your school can afford. She will write you a blanket licence based on your projected use, and you don't have a lot of work to do on the back end, just make certain that somewhere there is a reasonable credit for the music used and the composer. It's good form to teach this anyhow, and it is not difficult. I always ask my students to include credits in their movies, and they document time spent in various production roles in the production log. The log provides something concrete to build assessment opportunities with, and the credits rolling at the end of the movie is a goal that they all want to work towards.

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Permalink Reply by Brian on November 26, 2007 at 7:58pm

Thanks for the info--I'm working on a big unit with the intermediate art teacher with the idea of, "What if artists had had MySpace back then? What would it look like?" We introduce it tomorrow. I might take it further with your idea after state testing.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on November 26, 2007 at 8:09pm

Great idea--I've seen some blogs done by "historical" figures like Harriet Tubman. Did you see the Library Journal article on Web 2.0 users. They used a fake My Space format for our biographies--it was fun.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on November 27, 2007 at 3:37am

Good idea
Thanks for sharing out.
I particularly like the idea of using technology to examine how advertising is used on the world, and the best way to learn is by doing it yourself.
It brings up the idea of having kids create Public Service ads, too.
Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Brian on December 3, 2007 at 9:27pm

Wade,
Thanks for sharing. I'll check it tomorrow when I can get to Broadband at work. I have one in college and one preparing--still paying for dial-up!

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Permalink Reply by Beth on December 8, 2007 at 8:44am

Hi--I am presenting a session at a technology conference in Virginia in Feb. on using MovieMaker in the classroom. Our technology coordinator has asked me not to do a tutorial but emphasize research based instructional strategies, instructional uses....etc, etc. . Have you done your presentation? Did you include specific instructional uses? Also, I am unsure how to address copyright issues. Any suggestions??? Thanks!! :)

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Permalink Reply by Brian on December 8, 2007 at 9:41am

Hi Beth--
I bet we're presenting at the same conference! I have a disc that I gave my participants at the end of the workshop on how they can integrate Movie Maker into the curriculum. Now, I have to just remember where I put the disc! I also addressed copyright issues, which all my handouts are on that same disc. I'll upload them to my blog once I find it and let you know. I present on that Monday at 4:00--maybe we can meet up.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on December 8, 2007 at 11:42am

Any chance you might upload some of those resources here, Brian?
Thanks
Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Beth on December 8, 2007 at 12:07pm

Brian-
Are you presenting at VSTE? I think that I am presenting on Tuesday sometime around 10 or 11. If you have anything from your presentation at your school/workshop....I'd love to see it.....what are you presenting at VSTE? This is the first time that I will be a presenter, so I am nervous and would like to do a good job. Looks like you have much more experience at these things than I do. :)

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on December 8, 2007 at 2:11pm

Have you read the work of Dan Meyers and others on doing a good presentation? I presented often and even nationally for 7-8 years and even though I don't present anymore, I learned a lot from them. Dan's blog is http://blog.mrmeyer.com/ Search for "presentation" , you'll find it. Good Luck.