PROJECT OVERVIEW

Purpose | Students/teachers | Skills addressed | Overall value | Tips

This project is aimed at creating a video of a classroom activity, using video editing techniques to incorporate images, text, music and subtitles. It also allows the user to edit out mistakes, instead of having to re-record from the beginning. This allows teachers and students to record role play exercises, group discussions, presentations etc and then make a permanent visual record to share with other students. Students find the use of video stimulating and it encourages greater care in planning and preparation.

This task was carried out in partnership with Catherine Murray, also from St.Gregory’s School, and her project covers the background preparation in more depth.

Students/Teachers

The students who participated in this project were a higher ability year 8 class [aged 12 and 13]. This is suitable for most students but may require some technical support in downloading the video to the computer.

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Skills addressed by the project

• Communication – students will work in small groups and discuss their work
• Planning – they develop and refine their work to enhance its quality
• Critical thinking – to process information in a structured sequence of events
• Presentation skills – present their ideas in a variety of ways and with a clear sense of audience
• Research skills – use the Internet and other sources to find a variety of material to be included

Overall value

An excellent way to motivate students to participate, learn and take an active role in classroom presentations. Students and teachers will be encouraged to extend their work, knowing that it will be shared with others.

Tips

Have the support of the school ICT technician to assist you in downloading the video from the camera into a suitable area on the computer. This can be time consuming and needs to be prepared ahead of the lesson. It will be useful to demonstrate the skills involved using a projector and a whiteboard.

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