ER-March 10- Board In Class

Hello Everyone! I hope your day is going well and you got a weekend full of fun!

For this weeks Education Response, I want to talk about Video and making videos in the classroom.

As I stated in my last post, I love the idea of video//digital literacy in a classroom. There are so many elements that go into a video, students are bound to find something they like along the way, plus learn something.

Now as I was thinking about videos in classrooms, I never had an experience of having to make a video for class. However, in High School, I did star in a few of my friends videos that she had to make for her video class and I learned how much work went into making a short video. My friend was tasked with the job to make a modern take of a play or book and being s Shakespeare fan, she went with the murder of Julius Caesar.

The video took about an entire day to shoot and that did not include clean up or set-up. She put in several days into a short 5-minute video. She drew storyboards, researched how to use a green screen  made fake blood, design costumes, drove to Pittsburgh for some of the shots, and edited it all together.

I am more than positive that during all of her work for this video, she encountered several literacies and after talking with her, she said she learned a lot about the film industry and the experience of commanding people to work together and make a movie.

This is the kind of learning I strive to have my students learn when they do projects like these. In education, we often struggle with finding an interesting way to present information so the students will learn and half the time, it fails. With a hand-on interaction project like this, students learn much more than what we as teachers plan on them to learn. This is why I love digital literacies!

Overall, what do you all think? Will you plan on bringing digital literacies to your classroom? Feel free to comment below!

Thank you for reading and have a great day! And remember...

~Add a little Streiff to your life~

-Joey S.