Today’s short session on Movie Maker showed me how to import music, split a sound track, embed a message on an image or on a title sheet, how to “twiddle” the audio track, and some transitions. Other rules for using Movie Maker include: start by making a folder for the project, save often, that .mov and .mp4 are kind of Apple video formats while .avi and .wmv are PC video formats and are probably only compatible on their platform, it crashes a lot when a lot of memory (more than three minutes) is being used. iMove is easier to use, can handle bigger files, and can handle mp4.
After today’s discussions about effective use of video we were given an assignment to make a short presentation. Patience, Karen, and I thought it would be informative and fun to have a video showing students how to properly (and improperly) use a microscope. We selected three of the most important concepts, developed good and bad behaviors for those concepts, and planned our storyboard. Our plan included both still images (which our Flip video camera had to take as video) and action shots. We got all the pictures and recorded on shattering glass sound, then tried to import them into iMovie. This didn’t work so we simultaneously imported the clips into iPhoto on an Apple and tried to import the clips into Windows Movie Maker on a new PC. We struggled with this for 20 minutes and returned to class. Later, Patience finished the video:
In class we learned we had problems because the Flip camera takes images in mp4. Both our programs could not handle this. We still learned a lot about how we could effectively use video for teaching a lesson, especially if it is funny.
On a related note, You Tube is continually increasing its abundance of excellent video footage that is relevant in a science class. The link below is one I find noteworthy for the concepts of food chains, decomposition, productivity, and upwelling:
After today’s discussions about effective use of video we were given an assignment to make a short presentation. Patience, Karen, and I thought it would be informative and fun to have a video showing students how to properly (and improperly) use a microscope. We selected three of the most important concepts, developed good and bad behaviors for those concepts, and planned our storyboard. Our plan included both still images (which our Flip video camera had to take as video) and action shots. We got all the pictures and recorded on shattering glass sound, then tried to import them into iMovie. This didn’t work so we simultaneously imported the clips into iPhoto on an Apple and tried to import the clips into Windows Movie Maker on a new PC. We struggled with this for 20 minutes and returned to class. Later, Patience finished the video:
In class we learned we had problems because the Flip camera takes images in mp4. Both our programs could not handle this. We still learned a lot about how we could effectively use video for teaching a lesson, especially if it is funny.
On a related note, You Tube is continually increasing its abundance of excellent video footage that is relevant in a science class. The link below is one I find noteworthy for the concepts of food chains, decomposition, productivity, and upwelling:
Antique microscope images originally posted on Flickr by Jacopo Werther then posted on Wikimedia by Mike Towber.
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