Digital Video for analysis
Again Barrie Fisher at Idsall comes up trumps for innovative use of ICT. Today’s HOS session was aimed at delving into digital video; we toyed with the idea of looking at Pinnacle but instead went for Movie Maker 2 which amply fulfils the requirements that Barrie had for it.
Barrie worked through the different aspects of MM2 including the titling and the voice over. Then we hit on the idea that this would be useful to pupils assessing their own performance - they watch a video of themselves and add a voiceover as they watch. This could be so powerful in the classroom, as well as meeting targets for GCSE (particularly the AQA specification) where pupils need to provide analysis of their own or others’ performance. And the nature of a Movie Maker 2 project means that they can add the video of their improved performance at the end after they’ve done it. I can imagine moderators being highly impressed with a DVD of pupils assessing their own performance.
January 9th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
…and of course a week later Barrie had done it again. By getting pupils to write their commentary first, they can do a first-class piece of work that misses nothing out. Alternatively, for those who are reluctant to write, the commentary is done first so that they can get their points across verbally first and then write them down after a re-run, addressing literacy issues as they do so.