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The Potential of Digital Video |
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potential of computer based digital video in expanding
and extending a student’s capability to think, learn,
understand and communicate is enormous. |
| Desktop
video production is providing students with unique opportunities
to enhance their learning in creative ways. Video is a
wonderful and affordable medium for students to mix moving
images, text, sound, music, still images and dialogue
into compelling stories, documentaries and research projects
for sharing. |
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a digital video camera, a computer and user-friendly video
editing software teachers and students have an ideal starting
point for video making. |
| Video
is a versatile and global medium for sharing information.
It can be used extensively in all curriculum areas and
at all year levels. Imagine a project, a story, a poem,
a biography, a news report, an interview, a documentary,
collaborative research or a science experiment coming
to life through video. |
| Video
productions can be compressed and used in web pages, placed
on CD ROM or DVD, printed directly to video tape, or embedded
into multimedia presentations. |
| Students
derive as much of their knowledge from visual texts as
they do from printed texts. Just as there is written language
there is visual language with many similarities between
reading and viewing. |
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as it takes a planned approach to write a book or an essay
(a structure that links words to sentences to paragraphs),
it's also possible to create a video in much the same
way using a series of shots, sequences and scenes. |
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addition to gaining an understanding of the basic mechanics
of how to use a video camera and video editing software,
students need to develop a greater visual awareness and
visual literacy. |
| Classroom
video production supported by supplementary viewing, discussion
and planning activities not only gives students opportunities
to broaden their literacy repertoire and to use creative
production tools but it provides a richer understanding
of how to create video stories that make sense, create
an impact and tell a story. |
| Video
production works powerfully in a classroom that encourages
exploration, inquiry, investigation, and discovery approaches
to learning. |
| There
is evidence of improved self-esteem, increased confidence,
and the development of leadership skills in students when
they are given opportunities to explore visual language
and focus on using video as a learning and communication
tool. |
| Students
are becoming highly creative in harnessing this powerful
ICT tool. |
Next:
Stages of Video Making
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