Stop+Watching+Videos,+Start+Making+Them!

=Flex - CFF Approved - Stop Showing Videos, Start Making Them= "Are we watching a movie today?" "No, you are the movie." Instead of having students view videos, teachers can have their students interact with video, and different forms of media to learn course content. Some applications will include Photo Story, Animoto, and Windows Movie Maker. *This session will count for CFF.

=Agenda=

1) Please copy the files from the CD we provided to a folder on your desktop. This will increase the performance of MovieMaker later when we edit videos. While you copy the files, please enjoy our video project examples: "Vocab Larry" "Too Ambitious" "Soothsayer's Rap" AIC podcast on podcasting "PhotoStory" (all five examples are viewable here) (PhotoStory3 is a free download for Windows from Microsoft. It will take still images and make a slide show with transitions. You can also import audio to the show. Animoto is another free photo/video website that will create professional looking videos complete with audio and images that you load. Both programs are worth a look.) Link for PhotoStory3 download Link for Animoto (great for combining stills and video clips for a short movie segment)

2) Importing video into Windows Movie Maker a) from camera b) from video files

3) Importing still pictures into Movie Maker

4) Importing audio

5) Inserting titles, credits, and transitions.

6) Finishing and saving movie

7) YOU DO IT! In order to save time, we uploaded video clips, pictures, and audio files to a CD for your use. We'd like to you import them into MovieMaker and use them to create a movie of your own that tells people how you plan to use podcasting or video production in your classroom.

Wendy ~ would you like to wordsmith these directions a little bit? Yes I would...here is my response. (This is just one more example of how easy it is to send a comment on original work generated.)

=NOTES= Do you need a video converter? Here is a link for a site to download any video converter, in case you are interested: [] (Thanks to Elizabeth Carter for this one!)

Recording video using the built-in camera on a laptop or mini? You need to set the audio level to its highest to get any playback volume. So when you are in Movie Maker and you select Capture from Video Device, the first screen that comes up has an audio setting. Slide that bar up. (Thanks to Barb Maier for this one!)