Video Thoughts

This video focused primarily on video and the place that it has in the classroom. There was a lot of good information in this chapter relating to how to properly use video in the classroom and I learned quite a few things that I didn't know before!

1. I learned that you could narrate a slideshow using a smartphone. I didn't even know that there was slideshow making apps for your smartphone, but I thought it was so cool to learn that, not only are their slideshow making apps, some apps have the ability to record voice. 
2. I had always been unsure of how to make screencasts of my screen while also including video. More than once I've tried to take screencasts of my computer screen and had no audio, so knowing that there are ways out there to get the audio into screen casts was a really great thing to learn! 
3. TeacherTube. I had heard of StudentTube before, as some of the teachers at my school had used it before, because YouTube was banned. I had no idea that there was also one for Teachers as well, so that was a pretty cool thing to hear about, definitely something that I'll use sometime in the future. 
4. All the different video sharing and making websites and applications. I knew that there were plenty of different video sharing websites out there, but I had always just stuck to YouTube, so getting to hear about them was definitely a learning experience. 

Two of my projects for Dr. Grace's class are going to be about the kids making their own movies. I think, with the final project (which is going to be a 5-10 minutes documentary type video), students will have the opportunity to share their videos on the web, if they feel comfortable. I also want to make sure that the students explore some of these video sharing websites, so I hope to have parts throughout the lessons where students are searching for videos. I think, because I'm doing video for two of my projects, students will be able to be more comfortable the second time around with how to properly make a video that they can be proud of!