digital video assignment

CONTENT:

You will be working in a group of 2-3 to create a 3-5 minute movie that teaches a skill or clarifies a concept within a grade level expectation. Vertmont FrameWork of Standards and Learning Opportunities.

LanguageArts	Standard	Ideas
	1.3.g. Analyze, interpret, and evaluate texts produced for a wide range of purposes and audiences, including their cultural, political, and aesthetic contexts.	Interviews with famous authors. Discuss some books that highschool students might be required to read. Create an advertisement for a short story or a book.
	1.9.g. Engage readers by creating a context that makes clear the significance of the story and of its central idea or tension;	Act out an important scene in a play or book that would engage high school students' interest and be classical content. The Canterbury digiTales Project is a take on a Chaucer's character in modern times.

Mathematics	Standard	Ideas
	7.6.g. Reason proportionally to solve problems involving equivalent fractions or equal ratios (proportions); and	Middle school students do a great job in explaining how right triangles and ratios can be used to measure the height of a flag pole. Triangles.mov
	7.10.aa. Formulate and solve meaningful problems in many kinds of situations using grade-related mathematical concepts and reasoning strategies;	Use the smart board to video an explanation of how to use a spreadsheet to calculate the averages of temperature in different states to explain population distribution.
	7.7.aa. Model situations geometrically to formulate and solve problems; recognize rotational and bilateral symmetry in two- and three-dimensional	M=Math Movie Minute. Figuring out the surface of a pyramid.

SocialStudies	Standard	Ideas
	6.9.b. Analyze and debate the problems of majority rule and the protection of minority rights as written in the U.S. Constitution.	Have a "Newscaster" with an obivous political point of view interviewing someone with the opposite point of view. For example debating the gay marriage issue. A majority has prevented a minority from the rights a married couple would be entitled to.
	6.4.ddd. Sequence historical eras; identify the characteristics of transitions between era	Act out a scene from a historical time (you can use black and white and even septia to create an old effect. ). Here's an example of Coloniel America. See if audience can determine the era. What are the clues? See how this is done in a slide iMovie show as ninth graders studied an American era. Here's one where students researched a soldier from the civil war, read his diary notes and enacted a scene from his life.

Science	Standard	Ideas
	7.15.eee. Analyze and explain natural resource management and demonstrate an understanding of the ecological interactions and interdependence between humans and their resource demands on environmental systems	Watershed Documentary
	7.13.ddd. Explain and justify how natural selection and its evolutionary consequences provide a scientific explanation for the fossil record of ancient life forms.	Fake news break: Explain why a whale has been found in Charlotte Vermont. Interview People and use web information for an answer.
	7.12cc. Explain the relationships between preessure, volume, and the amount of has (e.g., soda bottles, auto tires).	Show a scientific experiment. See how these middle school students explain some facts about air pressure.

MOVIE TIPS

Story Board your movie
Film much more than you think you will need (20 minutes) so you can work with your best material
Shoot with the light at your back and make sure the area is well lit.
Make sure there are no distracting noises
Zoom S l o w l y
Keep your camera steady. Rest if or your arm on something stable.
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ASSESSMENT

Criteria	Needs Work	Fair Work	Good Work	Excellent Work
Content Grade Appropriate Connection	Point doesn't really get across Not appropriate for grade level addressed No connection between what is taught in video and a juried unit/activity	Some content is presented OK Grade level only appropriate for some students in grades addressed Connection to unit/activity not very clear	Most of the content is pretty well explained Grade level appropriate for majority of students in grades addressed Connection to unit/activity could be better	Content presented is very well explained Appropriate for grade level of all children in the grades addressed Good alignment between what the teacher wants students to understand and the video produced in the juried unit/activity.
Text Organization	No introduction, credits or use of text when needed Story doesn't make any sense	Some text used to identify key elements Needs to flow better from idea to idea	Could use text in a few places to clarify content In some places it needs better connection from idea to idea	Introduction, credits and use of text when needed to introduce a new concept or indicate time passed. Good transitions between ideas that are carefully demonstrated and explained.
Editing	No transitions are used Looks unedited No effects used at all	Too many different kinds of transitions are used Too much poor quality footage is included. No effects used at all.	Most transitions are well done. Bits of poor quality footage remain Some effects used but do not add to movie	Transitions are consistent and smoothly connect segments Poor quality footage is all removed Some effects are used to improve the quality or mood of your movie
Timing	Less than 1 minute and longer than 10 Not saved correctly.	1-2 minutes to 7-9 minutes and not saved correctly for the web.	2 -3 minutes or 5 -6 minutes long Saved as a quicklime movie for the web.	3-5 minutes as a completed quicklime movie for the web.
Quality of Video	Video not clear in many places Text is hard to read or absent Video shows unnecessary movement Lighting is poor.	Video has too many unclear places Text is mostly difficult to read or absent Video has too much shaking Lighting could be better	Video is mostly clear. Text is mostly easy to read Video does not shake much Lighting is good	Video is clear. Text is easy to read Video does not shake (unless you are depicting an earthquake). Lighting is very good
Audio	Audio is cut-off and inconsistent. Students have great difficulty communicating ideas with poor voice projection.	The audio is inconsistent in clarity (too loud/too soft/garbled) at times and insufficiently communicates the main idea. Students have difficulty communicating ideas due to weak voice projection and/or lack of preparation. The background audio overpowers the primary audio.	The audio is clear, but only partially assists in communicating the main idea. Students communicate ideas with proper voice projection, adequate preparation and delivery.	The audio is clear and effectively assists in communicating the main idea. Students communicate ideas with enthusiasm, proper voice projection, appropriate language, and clear delivery. Background audio is kept in balance and does not overpower the primary audio.
Ability to add to portfolio	You have not added your portfolio to your website			You have exported your video correctly and added it to your website. It works when played on the web with machines that have quicklime player installed..

last updated, Nov. 17, 2003