Digital Video

I have seen movie maker used in a year one classroom, it was scaffolded very well and as a result was very successful. Teachers organised for an incubator to be placed in the classroom with eggs that were about to hatch. Students took photos each day of the eggs then of the chicks once they were hatched. Students then uploaded their photos to movie maker. Once the photos were up loaded students recorded their voices explaining what was happening in each of the photos and explaining the development stages of the Chic's.



I have prepared a quick example.

I found using movie maker was a bit difficult at first, however like most things once I moved along it got easier to use. I can see many uses for this tool in the classroom, however I will myself have to use this tool more to get more confident with it before teaching students how to use it.

Movie maker is great for showing how things change over time, such as the life cycle of a chicken. I also think the content has to be something the students can connect with. For example if students were asked to find pictures of the Internet at different stages of the life cycle it wouldn't mean as much to the students. However the fact that the students had the chicken in the classroom and had their pictures taken with the chickens made it real.

Movie maker, like many of the other tool we are learning has a focus on visual literacy as students are required to understand how images, colour, line etc work together to create meaning.

As mentioned in the reading by Kearney & Shuck, 2006 digital video supports higher order thinking, organisation and team work. However for this to occur much thought and organisation on the learning managers part needs to go into the scaffolding.