youtube and digital storytelling assignment review
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Youtube and Digital Storytelling Assignment:
For this assignment, we made our own Youtube channel, if we didn't already have one,
and were instructed to make two different videos. The first video we were to make, was a video
of us teaching something. We were shown many examples of how to make our videos look and
sound appealing, such as adding transition and fading in and out of videos. We learned how to
apply music to our projects, as well as use many different applications to make it.
!For the second video, we were to use digital storytelling. We had to create a story, design it, and
present it as a video. Just like for the first video, we were provided with many examples on how
to go about doing this assignment. We got to choose from many different applications and
created our story.
!!Youtube and Digital Storytelling Review:
I am pretty familiar with youtube, as are most people my age. I’ve used it to post concert
videos, and watch just about everything else in the world. Ive known youtube as a casual way to
pass/waste time, or learn how to do random thing like cook salmon correctly. I have never
created or posted videos being the person showing how to do something. I’ve only been the
person on the other side of the computer doing the learning, from the video. So this assignment
was taking something that I felt like I was fairly familiar with and putting a spin on it. This
assignment would fall under the 21st century education pillar of project based learning. This is
because of the aspect of taking what you know and working with it more in order to present it to
someone else. In my classroom, I will definitely use youtube and digital storytelling as a tool to
help children learn. Having a child, or a group of children work together to make a video to
present an idea that they have learned, shows their level of understanding of the subject. Letting
a child show what they know by creating a video is so much better that giving them a written test
on the subject. If someone can explain an idea to someone else, they develop an even higher
level of understanding that they had before, and this is what schools need to work toward. When
using an assignment such as this in my classroom, I would set the children's goal and presenting
something specific, rather than broadly anything that we had in this class. Giving them a broad
idea of a subject such as teach something that we learned about fables, will leave them room for
creativity, while keeping them on the topic that I wish to assess.
!!
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