1. Which multiple intelligences did each project focus on? (Read the short article published by American Institute for Learning.)
2. Which of Bloom's Taxonomy categories did the projects tap into? (Use Bloom's Taxonomy Wheel and Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Process Verbs documents for reference.)
3. If you had the opportunity to involve your students in a similar project, which theme connected to your curriculum would you choose? How would the project improve your students' higher order thinking skills, as well as language skills?
"Moldovan Cuisine" Project title: Next Vista for Learning Age level: high school Theme: food around the world | "My video CV" Project title: Video resumes for Business Writing Age level: college, 1st year Theme: Business writing |
Task 2: Let us introduce your students to several online platforms for video projects. Analyse the advantages and disadvantages of these three platforms: Anomoto, Picovico and Stupeflix, choose one and create a task for your students which would require them to create online movies and post the links to your blogs. Place the link to your task below, as a comment to this assignment. Animoto is a Web 2.0 tool that allows users to produce videos that blend photos, video clips, text and music.
Check out these sample Animoto videos: |
Another great tool to experiment with when teaching English is Picovico. Using Picovico your students can make commercials, science fair previews and animated shorts in any content area. You can have your students create book talks or "ads" for a famous historic figure. You may have your students create "advertisements" for an organism or a literary character, a travel commercial for a country or cultural site in a world language course, make an end of year presentation of class events or a beginning of the year. It is a web tool to create a video with your pictures. After signing up, you choose a video style, upload your pictures, add text, choose your music, add a few details and wait for your video to be rendered. When the video is ready nearly in two minutes, you can share your video via different social media tools or you can also download your video.
Here are a few ideas to use this tool in class: - Students can create an advertisement of an object, film or a book that they have just read. - If you go on a field trip, ask students to take pictures and create a video using those pictures later. - Students can create a video of the things that they have done in holidays. - The videos can be used for introducing school rules, families, what they like doing etc. When creating their short movies, ask your students to use this template: Story Map |
Stupeflix is a tool that allows users to create video montages using their favorite images and audio clips. Stupeflix allows users to drag and drop their images into a desired sequence. You will want to upload your own audio clips as Stupeflix offers only one default soundtrack. But an advantage of Stupeflix is that it allows you to use more than one audio clip within the same video. Sample projects to share with your students: Ask your students to use one of the story boards they can download from this website: Storyboard Depot |
If Animoto, Picovico and Stupeflix didn't grow on you, feel free to give a try to these platforms we encourage you to experiment with: Photopeach and Slidestory. Enjoy designing creative tasks for your students!