5th Grade Learns about Quality Videos

Our 5th grade has been making videos all year and they started off silly and now we are really looking to get kids critically engaged in making meaningful video lessons to illustrate their own understanding.  This is the lesson I started off our conversation with.  I tried to include engaging examples and several different types of onscreen interactions.

Below is the BLOG  page as I shared it with students:
Step 1 respond to this survey

Step 2 open this link in a new window and set you screen up with both windows visible.

2 Up Display like this

In order to think about how videos can be put together, let's take a look at a few.  Explore this gallery and be ready to share your understanding of WHAT these videos do and HOW they do it. [AS we watched the videos individually we interacted on the Today's meet space as a class.  That link is likely dead now as I built a short term room.  This lesson covered many tech skills (2up windows, chat skills, video fundamentals).

How To build a robot!

A second robot building video



and a third







This guy was making instructional videos before there was internet.



Here it is remixed


Which of these delivers information more clearly?

Please complete this second form:

This lesson was the beginning of a great conversation about how videos are made and what choices we make to keep watchers engaged.  Thanks to Cheryl and Andrew for their inspiration to share really engaging videos and talk with my students about why the videos work.


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