Digital Video

In our ITS program, we have been learning to use a Flip Camera to make a video. The planning stage is very important. Once you actually start filming, the process moves along quickly. We just learned the process of video editing. This puts all of the final touches on the video and allows you to delete scenes and edit the final content. I have actually used this in my elementary classroom already. I had the students make a video after we finished a government unit. I did not know how to edit the video, so I just put the video segments following eachother. The students were very proud of the final production, and will be a great tool to be used for SOL review. I was going to continue the video with each unit that we studied, but my group of students this year lack creativity. I found that I was doing all of the planning and treatments. Right now I am thinking of another way to use the camera to complete a lesson plan.