Thing 8

Ah! At last! A segment I am quite familiar with. I work a lot with video on my own, mostly video editing, but this year we incorporated it into our 7th grade curriculum as well. One of the big issues we encountered was trying to download video to use as segments in our student created videos. I like the two websites suggested here: Keepvid and PWNYYouTube. We would also need a file converter program, I believe, that would convert .flv files to usable video files for Adobe Premiere Elements.

Anyway, I found an inspirational video that I could play as an icebreaker/motivator at the start of my 7th grade cycles. Students are very apprehensive about using video editing, microphones for voice overs, cameras, etc. for class projects. I like this idea of no success without failure, especially when they see familiar and famous names behind those failures.