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Dr. Alice Christie's Digital Media Resources for Teachers

K-12 Students | Tips and Tutorials | Planning and Assessment | Articles
Professional Development | Free Online Materials | Final Thought

K-12 STUDENTS USING VIDEO IN THE CLASSROOM

• Rosa Parks Movie
  In this project, students in the entire elementary school watched a play about Rosa Parks. The students who performed in the play learned about Rosa Parks by researching the internet. They developed and wrote a script. To prepare for their storytelling performance, students created a web using Kidspiration. They videotaped each other with a digital camcorder as they performed their story in front of their peers. Each classroom was asked to display facts about Rosa Parks on their classroom doors. Using digital cameras, the students took pictures of the doors. The pictures were imported to iPhoto. The play performers used iMovie and iPhoto to combine the videotape, and digital photos and created a "storytelling movie" of Rosa Parks.
  
• Wolverton Words: Hidden Languages of Milton Keynes
  This project was researched, carried out and put together by 40 seventh grade students at Bushfield Middle School. This video projects examines and compares how four different generations of people in their town pronounce certain words and sounds.
  • Project Overview
  • Project Description and Sample Video Clip
• The Penguin Project from Kim Fossey of Louisiana State University
  • Student Activities
  • Video Project Rubric
• iMovie Examples from Springfield, Illinois
  A series of iMovies by students across the content areas and grade levels.
• Using iMovie
  More examples from Springfield, Illinois students.
• Apple's Collection of iMovie™ Projects
  • Science Gallery
  • Social Studies Gallery
  • Math Gallery
  • Language Arts Gallery
  • Additional Subjects Gallery
• K-12 Projects Receiving Awards from Apple for Innovative Use of iLife™and iMovie™
  • Award Winners
  • Honorable Mention
• Monarch Butterflies: From Egg to Adult
  The QuickTime movies by students in the Mesquite Independent School District show students' records of several Monarch butterflies growing from egg to butterfly
• Five Student-Made iMovies
  Click on any or all of the five movies listed in the right hand column. Download time may be long!
• iMovie™ Theater
  iMovies by students in Michael Mino's workshops
• Student Portfolio | iMovie™ Student Portfolio
  This site provides examples of a student's videos that show evidence of content standards.
• iMovie as a Communication Tool iMovie examples by kids from Michael Driscoll School, Brookline, MA
• We Didn't Start the Fire:
  • Creating the iMovie™ We Didn't Start the Fire
  • iMovie™ created using Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire" combined with Internet images
  • Lyrics and Links to We Didn't Start the Fire
  • We Didn't Start the Fire Timeline

TIPS AND TUTORIALS

• San Diego School District Digital Media Resources
  An incredible list of links!
• Kent School District Digital Media Production
  From physical setup to management strategies, this website from the Kent Washington School District, gives you everything you need to know as a teacher to help your class produce videos.
• An Overview of Planning, Shooting, Capturing, Editing and Embedding Video for Delivery on a Computer
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign instructors Bertelsen and Buell provide an online tutorial for students enrolled in their EdPsy 490 class.
• Atomic Learning Free iMovie2 Tutorial
  In the format of the "Smallest Learning Objective" view short QuickTime videos that demonstrate step-by-step procedures on putting together your iMovie™.
• Apple iMovie Tips and Tutorials
  • The New iMovie™
  • Apple Computer's Tips for Making Your Movie
    Kid-friendly with storyboards to illustrate each tip. This site will give you excellent guidelines to help you produce a quality video. Tips include setting up your shots, as well as suggestions for getting creative with your video camera.
  • Apple iLife Tips
    Under the iMovie column, click on each link for six PDFs about creating movies with iMovie™.
  • iMovie Tips and Tricks Put You in the Director's Chair
  • Jessamine County Schools iMovie Tutorial
  • MediaEd.org's iMovie2 Tips
  • Wellesley College's iMovie Tips
    • Using iMovieCapturing and Basic EditingAdvanced Editing Features of iMovie
    • iMovie Exporting
  • University of Manitoba Education Lab iMovie Training
    This is the opening page of an iMovie Workshop by Helen Bochonko. Take advantage of the entire online workshop.
  • Intel Play Digital Movie Creator Tutorial
    For those folks on PCs without access to iMovie
  • A Short Course in Digital Video
  • Digital Video Editing by Reno Marioni of WebMonkey
  • iMovie Tutorial presented in PowerPoint from Western Carolina University

PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT

• Desktop Movies: A Lesson Plan
• iMovie Commercials Five Session Lesson Plan
• Apple Lesson Plans that Incorporate iMovie™
  Click on the topics in the right column to view all ten parts of these lessons from Apple
  • Media Literacy
  • iMovie to See, Do, and Learn in Science and Physical Education
  • Celebrating Our Heroes: Telling Their Stories with iMovie
  • Conexiones - The Power of iMovie
  • Miwok Legend Storytelling iMovies
  • The Underground Railroad: A New Deal Art Project Digital Story
  • Complete List of All Lessons
    Click on links appropriate for your grade or content level
• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: Lesson and iMovie™
• California Learning Interchange: Math Video Series 1
  • Connecting Algebra to Elementary Schools
  • What is the Algebra Academy?
  • Introducing Variables and the Distributive Property
  • Graphing and Interpreting Non-Linear Functions
  • Creating and Reading a Graph
• Rubrics
  • An iMovie™ Rubric that helps students reflect on their iMovies.
  • Evaluation Rubric for Video Production
  • Northside Independent School District (San Antonio, TX) Video Production Rubric
  • Fermilab Video Technology Rubric
• Assessing Student Work with Project-Based Learning

ARTICLES AND OTHER RESOURCES

• Language Arts Comes Alive as Middle School Learners Become Information Producers by Alice Christie, et.al.
• BBC News: Using Digital Video to Enhance Learning
• Rationale for Multimedia Use and Instruction in Education This article incorporates examples to view about the use of sound, images, animations, and video.
• The Impact of Media and Technology in Schools: A Research Report prepared for The Bertelsmann Foundation
• iMovie and iBooks Make Summer Camp the Coolest
• The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use By Hall Davidson  
  Be sure to follow the link to Handy Chart for teachers.
• Digital Tools for Digital Kids
• Articles from Apple Describing Student Projects with lots of examples of student work
  • The Power of Story Telling
  • Lights, Camera, Learning
• Center for Digital Storytelling Browse through all the links.
• Getting the Picture! Video Integration with iMovie and Digital Cameras
  A terrific resource by Kim Fossey of LSU College of Education
• University of St. Thomas: Getting the Picture! Video Integration & Digital Cameras
• Grossmont Union High School District Digital Video in Education Resources
• Problem-Based Learning with Multimedia
• Director in the Classroom
• DV Desktop Video Links

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS USING VIDEO

• Teachers.Network.org, with funding from AT&T, provides Videos for Teachers, a video library for teachers including lessons, classroom strategies and helpful links.
• NETS Digital Video Library
  Created through the PT3 Grant at Arizona State University, this Digital Video Library Project provides on-demand support for educators, helping them to introduce preservice and inservice teachers to a wide range of technological tools and resources.
  • Lessons by Dr. Alice Christie
    • WebQuest: Meeting of Mathematical Minds
    • Weaving a Multimedia Approach to Literature - Coming Soon
    • Why Am I Special? - Coming Soon
    • Wearing Your Geography - Coming Soon
• iMovie in Teacher Education by Randy Yerrick
• Schoolhouse Video Teacher Training
• Video Integration with iMovie and Digital Cameras by Kim Fossey, LSU College of Education
• School of Education and Human Development at Cal State
  • iMovies by Students at the Joyce M. Huggins Early Education Center
  • Video for Kids Projects
  • iMovie Projects CTET Videos

FREE ONLINE RESOURCES

• Virtex Video Effects
• GeeThree iMovie Transitions: 9 Free transitions
• Storyboards
  • A Blank Storyboard
  • An Inspiration™ Storyboard

 FINAL THOUGHT

• Teacher Video A wonderful parody made by Apple Distinguished Educators