DIV Project

I love to make movies. I started seriously learning about video editing as a freshman in high school. In my high school we had a program called Visual Communications, when I started in this program I learned to edit linear analog video, as digital video editing was very expensive and rare. By the time I was a senior, we had all the equipment necessary to edit digital video. Three of my best friends and I took on the responsibility of creating the senior video for our class. This was a 60min long movie that we created using Final Cut Pro, it took us all year long. Creating the movie for the DIV project was not, therefore, new for me. However, using Movie Maker was, it was good to work through the differences between creating a movie on a PC as opposed to a Mac. Also, I was very excited about the chance to spend time making videos for my classroom. Unfortunately, this did not exactly work out, but I am still very happy with my movie and plan to incorporate my instructional movie into my student selected project.
There are many ways I could use video making both to aid instruction and as part of the learning process. For example, I have already decided it would help my students if I had a video library of demonstrations. This library would allow students who missed the demonstration to easily catch up on what they had missed. Students who were at the demonstration would also be able to refer back to the video if their notes were not complete enough. Video making could also be used for assessment. Students could demonstrate their knowledge of art history, and art production skills by creating instructional videos on a subject (which I could then add to my video library so that other students could learn from them!). Finally, if I teach a class like the Visual Communications course I took in high school, I might be teaching filmmaking as a skill all in itself.