Making Movies in the Classroom

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Using Movies to develop communication and literacy skills

Lesson idea. This lesson idea involves the use of digital video in the classroom to enhance communication skills. The teacher regularly uses video creation and editing resources to enable children to produce videos on a range of topics. This approach is taken in order to motivate and engage the children with their learning in order to develop their skills.

One example is this video produced by children relating to the topic of e-safety⁽ⁱ⁾: http://media.edusites.co.uk/article/internet-safety-animation-by-newman-school/ This video uses a number of applications (Noodle Flix[1], Xtranormal [2] and Crazytalk [3]) with the final product being edited together using iMovie on an Apple Mac.[4]

Teaching approach. This activity is a cross-curricular^(subject) activity, involving a collaborative^(ta) approach, giving children to opportunity to engage in group work^(ta) whilst making digital media in the form of films. The activity furthers e-skills^(topic) and e-safety^(topic). The topic of e-safety^(topic) provided a great stimulus for the video^(tool). Equally, however, this approach could be applied to any topic or subject in school. The use of video also encourage active learning^(ta) as the portability of video recording equipment allows it to be used outside the classroom in a range of contexts.

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Title	Making Movies in the Classroom
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Learning Objectives	To create digital media to enhance communication skills
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Additional Resources/material needed	Video Camera
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Related ORBIT Wiki Resources	Case Study: Using digital images and film to enhance communication skills
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Files and resources to view and download	This lesson idea comes from the DEFT case study Using digital images and film to enhance communication skills. The whole case study is available for reading and downloading here: http://www.digitalfutures.org/index.php/case-studies/schools/project-school-2/
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