Digital Video in the Classroom

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Why?
Curricular Integration Strategies
Resources
Video Production Software Tutorials
Copyright Implications

 

Why?

National Teacher Training Institute

A small tutorial and video on why teachers should use streaming video in their classrooms.

Why Use Video in the Classroom?

A resource from the Catholic Telemedia Network on using video in the classroom.

Using Video in the Classroom

A short article from Library Video Company, a vendor of educational videos

Another article from Library Video Company citing statistics and research surrounding the benefits of instructional video.

An eSchoolNews article sponsored by Discovery Schools and unitedlearning.

An overview of why students are engaged by digital video.

Video Goes to School, Part II

A continuation of the previous article focusing on video streaming.

Video Streaming: Harnessing a Unique Capability of Technology

A nice article on why and how to use video streaming.

Streaming Media in Higher Ed: Possibilities and Pitfalls  

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Curricular Integration Strategies

A variety of utilization strategies.

Techniques for Teaching With Video

These five techniques—Freeze Frame, Sound Only, Silent Viewing, Jigsaw Viewing, and Normal Viewing— have become popular for teaching language with video.

A pdf of integration ideas from unitedstreaming

Video In The Classroom: Useful Techniques For Teachers

An Article from Prairie Public Television with some nice tips on developing a lesson using video

Video in Theory and Practice: Issues for Classroom Use and Teacher Video Evaluation

A paper about getting the most educational value out of viewing videos in the classroom. Has some nice guidelines for pre-activity, activity, and post-activity.

Planning in Multimedia and Video

Some helpful handouts and information for classroom integration of multimedia and video.

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Resources

unitedstreaming

Video streaming service available to all Chester County public schools and subscribing non public schools.

Discovery Educator Network Resources

A collections of resources from Discovery Education around video in the classroom.

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Video Production

Kids' Vid

Video production is more than a new toy for students. It helps students create work in a new and exciting way. Kids'VId is an instructional web site aimed at helping teachers and students use video production in class to support project-based learning.

Digital Video in Education

Student Process, Teacher Process, Equipment and Internet Resources

Using Video in the Classroom

Resource links provided by The University of Auckland

Digital Video in Education by Keith Lightbody

Digital Video Terminology- a Tutorial

Everyone starting out in digital video finds themselves faced with a bewildering array of new buzz-words, acronyms, and terminology. This glossary aims to help you through the confusion by explaining many of the commonly used terms.

Digital Video in the Classroom

An Internet hotlist on digital video creation and editing

Action! In the Classroom

A great site from the author of the book by the same name that contains many resources for creating videos with students

Digital Video in the Classroom Knowledge Map

A clickable concept course map with lots of 'how-to' info in the lower right portion

iMovie Goes to Elementary School

Examples of movies created by teachers and students -- NOT just for Mac users!

Student Created Movie Examples

Examples of movies created in the Springfield, IL school district

Why Produce Video in Your Classroom

Digital Video Production

Hotlist of examples, how-tos and hardware/software links

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Video Production Software Tutorials

Atomic Learning MovieMaker Tutorials

FREE video tutorials from Atomic Learning on all aspects of using Microsoft MovieMaker - from imporitng to editing.

MovieMaker 2 Tutorials

MovieMaker Tutorial

Editing unitedstreaming clips in MovieMaker

Step-by-step directions on importing and editing unitedstreaming videos in MovieMaker

Apple's iMovie Tutorial

 

Movies Made Easy

A very simple, easy getting started page on iMovie

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Copyright Implications

An article covering copyright considerations around digital video in the classroom.

The Proof is in the Permissions

A quick primer for librarians on copyright issues related to digital video. (pdf file)