Ideas for use - HSW - get students to dissect a news story and add comments from power point slides, eg look at swine flu stories in a health topic.
-Particle physics, CERN and LHC
-Plate tectonics and earth science
-make a video as a record of a practical investigation
-use the forces program from Teachers TV as a source of video clips of demonstrations
-almost any context from all three disciplines(!)
The technology could be used with all key stages, either in lessons or for homework although this raises issues of home access to IT. Good way to introduce new topics.
How long should pupils be given on this type of activity - opinions included 5 mins, 45 mins, 1-3 lessons, 3 hours if peer assessment was involved. There was a note of caution voiced - who should 'invest' the time needed to familiarise pupils with the technology? Some felt that this could be done over about 2 hours by a science teacher, others believe that science lessons are not the appropriate place for this - and that colleagues in ICT departments should be involved in preparing pupils for the use of ICT in science lessons.
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Kids get really quick at video editing.
ReplyDeleteEditing a video and/or adding their own naration is great for the pupils who are not natural scientists
planet research Y7 all types of class
ReplyDeleteLive sequence of a star -GCSE
Take an area of contemporary science, chose a video, download it to the school VLE, prepare a briefing sheet for the students to edit/ narrate their own video. The briefing sheet could also be used for peer assessment of the finished product. There is science content, literacy, communication and appropriate use of technology to engage the students.
ReplyDeleteStephen.
What a pity that Microsoft is still winning the format wars. Apple tools are so much more intuitive and robust to use. Will be interesting to see what happens when Google OS appears and we can focus on the task rather than finding ways to make the clunky MS tools to work.
ReplyDeleteuse it for pupil voice work e.g. get them to do a photostory/ video of an experiment/ investigation then they can edit it with ppts for the rest of the group i.e. add music captions to make it theirs.
ReplyDeleteperhaps in the same way get teachers/ itt /nqts to practice 'difficult' tssp topics to share with others.
This could be used in a wide variety of contexts and I can see a large number of students who are not in school using it and loving it
ReplyDeleteWould enable techers to include edited clips into a power point presentation. Students might be presented with a video clip with the sound removed and asked to build, edit and then add a commentary to it.
ReplyDeleteUseful technology when laptops work!
ReplyDeleteclassroom usage - pre-edit video clips and get pupils to arrange to tell story with their own voice over
vodcast approach of pupils storyboard and produce own clips or choose from limited selection, again with own voiceovers etc works well