Week 5- Videos

Using Windows Movie Maker, I recently attempted to create my own movie. Because I do not have any videos recorded anywhere, I did this using photos. (I have not attached it to this blog as it discloses personal information). I found that the process of uploading the photos to the program and then creating a movie order where well explained and easy to understand, however there seemed to be a lot of processes involved in making the movie more detailed than just a slideshow of pictures.

Having said this, I believe that this program would be suitable for older primary school students as long as there was a length of time focused on the finer details of the program.

Movie making would be a digital tool that would be beneficial for students when they are wanting to present certain information (mostly video footage or photos) in a form different from a slideshow. I believe that Windows Movie Maker can present photos in a simpler way than that of, for example, PowerPoint, as it only involves uploading photos and then dragging them into order, rather than copying and pasting and resizing and creating a new slide (etc.).

I also believe that Movie Makers allow for students to easily attach audio recordings to visual pictures, especially if they are working with a video recording. This would be useful for the purposes of Japanese if the students were demonstrating a Japanese custom (etc.) and explaining what they were doing.

Using Movie Makers would still require the use of a camera or video camera in the classroom but allows for a different, possibly simpler, way of displaying the images or video recording.