Using Movie Maker with Your Students

How often do you use Movie Maker with your students? There are some great ways to use Movie Maker as part of a lesson presentation or as projects for your students. Here is a list of ideas taken from the Digital Learning Environments News - May 2010 edition:
http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/professional_development/how_make_lessons_memorable_movie

Six Ways to Use Movies

1. Create a timeline that moves
• Present a succession of historical events in a photo slide show with music from that period.
2. Make your movie morph
• For science class, present the stages of development in the life of a butterfly. Create a photo slide show with images you grab from bing.com.
3. Demonstrate things you can’t bring to class
• Videotape feeding time for lions or gorillas at the zoo. Or capture the physics at play in a local skate park with still photos or video.
4. Share the classics in a fresher way
• Shoot video of various students reciting a phrase or two from a Shakespearean sonnet. String them together in a movie, and suddenly all eyes are on the screen. The whole class hangs on every famous word.
5. Try a different angle for math
• For math class, share all the ways that angles appear in everyday life, from a city skyscraper to the painted lines in the school parking lot to the countless angles at play on a pool table.
6. Start a lively debate
• Frame a debate topic by sharing the pros and cons of an issue with photos.

Here are some other great ideas for including Movie Maker in lessons and projects for your students:
Movie Maker Lessons & Movie Maker Worksheets by Lesson Planet
http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?keywords=movie+maker&rating=3

Techno Kids – Camp Technology Project
http://www.technokids.com/computer-curriculum/camp/movie-maker-lesson-plans-technoproducer.aspx

Scholastic.com
http://www.scholastic.com/dreamincolor/digitalstorytelling/pdfs/Target_DS_Lesson4.pdf