There would be unlimited scenarios! Students love to produce work using digital technologies and when the result is visually exciting and stimulating, a real sense of achievement follows. One of the most exciting ideas for using digital video, I have seen is the Book Trailer!
In my research for links to one of my favourite books, I stumbled across a brilliant blog for Aquinas College and their detailed instructions for Book Trailers. A Book Trailer is just like a movie trailer but it is about a book! You are not trying to tell the story as such, but impart the emotion and get the viewer excited about the book, much as a movie trailer is trying to get you interested in a movie. Book trailers would be worked on collaboratively by several students or in pairs and require a lot of planning and creativity, working through Bloom's Taxonomy from gaining the knowledge by reading the book through to synthesizing ideas and in the end creating the trailer. This beauty of this idea is that not only are the students creating through digital technologies, they are engaging in literature and trying to engage others in literature (via the book trailer).
The Aquinas College Blog suggest several websites useful for making your book trailer and has some student made examples worth watching. They suggest using Windows Movie Maker to produce the book trailers.
Photostory 3 is movie making tool that is currently being used in schools and is quick and easy to use. I have observed the process of Prep students making a simple informative movies using digital images and with students recording audio commentary. These photo stories are designed by the individual Prep students and produced with teacher assistance and guidance. Using Photostory 3 makes this an achievable task for the Prep class to produce creative movies in a timely fashion.
Using Windows Movie Maker, I have made a movie about a day at the beach for my family called Beach Diversity. It was a easy tool to use to produce a movie, but I did take a bit of time fiddling around to complete to my satisfaction. This tool could be used in many contexts in schools and across all KLAs and would be a very exciting and satisfying project.
PMI Analysis
Plus
.incorporates the advantages of both audio and visual so suits all learners
.digital images, digital videos, voice recording, and music can be incorporated
.can be very emotive and/or very informative
.diverse audience and contexts
.highly engaging to produce and to watch
.requires planning, creating, evaluating as well as knowledge and understanding of both ICT and subject
.develops problem solving and reasoning skills and creativity
.requires negotiation skills if group work
Minus
.may be time consuming
.many elements to coordinate
.all team members may not be equally represented
Interesting
.many movie making tools available to suit variety of applications
.could be used to convert lesson to movies for later consumption/revision
Can Digital Video make a difference to learning? Beltramo (2008) suggests 'that student experiences with using video production technologies are engaging, meaningful, and motivating and can contribute to improved student performance.'
References
Beltramo, D. A. (2008). Digital video production: A case study on motivating at-risk middle school math students. Walden University.
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