ND Curriculum Initiative

Subject & Standards

Understandings & Goals

Enduring Understanding: I want students to learn the current technology that is available to enhance products for both business and personal use, as well as to learn to transfer these skills to emerging technology. Goal(s): Students will learn to use a variety of multimedia equipment and resources to create productions useful for career or personal pleasure.

Questions Answered

Essential questions: What is video editing? How does one import video, pictures, music and sound effects? How does one add narration? How does one utilize transitions and effects? How does one edit video? How does one export video? Objectives: Students will be able to define terminology related to video production and editing. Students will work in groups to plan and video raw footage. Students will produce a video using captured media from sources to include digital camera, video camera, scanner, microphone, CD, and the internet. Students will enhance video productions using titles, effects, and transitions, Students will export movies to burn to CD, for use on web pages, or to transfer to VHS tape.

Assessment

What quiz and test items (e.g. simple content-focused questions that require a single, best answer) will provide evidence of understanding? Traditional quizzes. What academic prompts (e.g. open-ended questions or problems that require students to think critically and then to prepare a response / product / performance) will provide evidence of understanding? Daily academic prompts. What performance tasks and projects (e.g. complex challenges that are authentic, mirror the real world and require a performance or product) will you include that will provide evidence of student understanding? Students will create an iMovie using pre-scanned pictures. Student groups will create a more advanced iMovie utilizing their own media. What other evidence (e.g. observations, work samples, dialogues, student self-assessment) of understanding will you collect? Classroom observations Rubric assessments.

Instructional Strategies

Students will use project-based learning to create a video production. They will plan a theme; capture video; import video and other media into iMovie; edit their video; add titles, transitions, effects, music, narration, and sound effects; and finally export their movie. This will open the door for students interested in a career in video production or can simply be utilized by anyone to enhance home movies and photo albums.