http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og17TnitukQ
I thought this assignment was by far the most fun and coolest tool we've used yet. With that, I think that making videos like this is important and can be used in the classroom. Students could easily make these and you could make videos for any unit. Back to how it went for us though. Dave and I work very hard on this PSA and put a lot of time into it. We wrote out a script with a storyboard only after we had used multiple sources to cross-check our statistics that we put in. We set up a lot of lighting and did a lot of filming to get the right pieces. After this, we sat down and edited the video many times. We made a few other versions until we agreed that this was the cleanest and best video we had put together. We were extremely specific on everything we did and really tried to go above-and-beyond on this assignment. We took a good amount of time on our script and tossed around other ideas on how we could focus on bullying. We decided to choose facebook as our primary source. We did this because more than ever, students are getting facebooks at incredibly young ages. Also, its extremely easy to use and you can find anyone on it. We did it as a personal message because it really helped show just how far kids can go by using facebook.
Making this video was benefitial to me. Not only was it a great way to get a message out there, but now I know how easy it really is to use this activity in a middle school classroom. These videos could be made about almost anything and can be done relatively quickly. It would be a nice change of pace during lessons and the videos can be quite powerful. Our hope is that someone could end up finding this on youtube and actually use it in a presentation. Overall, I now know that this is a realistic activity to be used in the classroom.
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