Using Movie Maker in the Classroom

Presented by:

Melanie Honeycutt

Mary Lou Daily

Using Digital Video to Enhance TeachingTeaching Styles and Techniques• Demonstration • Modeling• Explaining• Questioning• Intervening• Providing Feedback

Using Digital Video to Enhance Learning

Students can produce videos for a variety of reasons - to inspire, to inform, to instruct, and even to entertain.

Essential Question: What story can you tell that might make the world a better place?

Ways to Integrate• Digital Storytelling

• Poetry

• Math – Geometric shapes

• Campaign Ads

• Project Based Learning

• Social Studies

Resources• Equipment

– Computer (Windows XP/OS)– Digital camera for still photos– Digital camera for video footage– Firewire to connect camera

• Digital Resources– Download Movie Maker 2 from the Microsoft website– Download CDex CDex is a free CD-Ripper, thus extracting

digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders.

– Copyright_mmaker.ppt

How do you get started?• Movie Making for Kids• Develop a Lesson Plan• Develop a Storyboard• Tips for creating movies• Examples

– Dr. Alice Christie at Arizona State

– Digital Video Editing with Beaufort County Schools

– Video in the Classroom

Integration Examples

• Apple Learning Experiences

• Sign Language Connection

• Technology 4 the Classroom

• Wycoff School in New Jersey

Let’s Get Started

• Setting Defaults in

Moviemaker– Click on General

• Then set up your

Storage folder

• Make sure Auto-

Recovery is set

Default Settings• Click on the advanced tab

•Note the picture duration

•This can be set here or done manually in the movie

• Choose Video Format (NTSC)

• Choose Aspect Ratio (4:3)

Collections or Task Pane

Contents PanePreview Pane

Timeline or Storyboard Pane

MM2

Introduction

Toggling Between Views

TasksCollections

Or Use the Drop Down Box to see Collections

Managing Collections

• Capture Video First

• Always create a new collection

• Importing Video always creates a new collection, unless it is still pictures.

• Import everything (stills, video and audio) into that collection

• Or you can create sub collections to be more organized

• You can copy or paste and drag between collections.

1. Choose a target collection

2. Click file

Import into

collections

3. Navigate to those files on your computer and select.

Importing Assets

Adding clips to the Project1. Click image in the Contents pane.

2. Drag to the first open frame

3. Release your mouseTips:

• Storyboard is good for arranging content (can drag and drop), but you can not do much more.

Adding Transitions1. Click target transition

2. Drag to transition box in storyboard or between two clips in Timeline

3. Release Mouse

4. Click first clip and click play in monitor to preview

To change a transition drag and drop. To delete, click on transition and delete.

Add transitions to multiple slides(Storyboard mode only)

1. Select all target images (edit > select all)

2. Click target transition

3. Right click > Add to Storyboard

Working in the Timeline

Edit Line- Preview in the monitor

Plus and minus key to zoom in and out

Time slider to move around the project

Adding Effects1. Click target effect

2. Drag onto clip on Timeline

3. Release mouse

4. Click clip and click Play in Monitor to preview

5. Add up to five

6. Drawback – can not customize effects, but adding multiple effects intensifies impact

Adding Audio1. Above the Storyboard, click

Show Timeline

2. Click and open Collection containing audio files

3. Click and drag audio file to audio/music track

4. Release mouse

Narrating the Project1. Click on Tools > Narrate Timeline

2. Click start, speak normally, click stop

3. MM2 opens a save audio file box. Name

and save the file and MM2 inserts it into

the audio/music track.

Add Opening Title

1. Click Tools > Titles and Credits

2. Click add title at the beginning of the Movie

3. Type in the Title

Adjust Font and Color

and Title Animation

Advanced SkillsSplitting and trimming

• In the Contents pane or on the storyboard/timeline, click the clip you want to split.

• On the Play menu, click Play Clip, and then click Pause

• Clip on the Play menu to pause the video at the point you want to split the clip. -or-

• On the monitor, move the playback indicator on the seek bar to the point you want to split the clip.

• On the Clip menu, click Split.

Rendering your Project

High Level Choices• Start by clicking File > Save Movie File

• Generally, Use 2 of 5 preset groups

•My Computer for

•Streaming

•Desktop playback

•Inputting into authoring program

•DV Camera for

•Storage

•Writing to VHS Tape

Other Rendering Topics• Rendering for input into an authoring program like MYDVD

•Use the DV-AVI (NSTC) output present

• Output to tape

•Setup the hardware like you were capturing video

•Use the DV Camera output and follow the wizard.

Resources Cited• "Kids with Cameras." Making Movies in the Classroom. 2003. Giggle Potz. 27 Feb. 2005

<http://www.gigglepotz.com/kidswithcameras.htm>. • "Adobe Digital Kids Club." Lessons and Activities. 2005. Adobe. 27 Feb. 2005

<http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/main.html>. • "Education World Technology Article." Did you see that Poem?. 22 Feb. 2005. Education

World. 27 Feb. 2005 <http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech142.shtml>. • "Memory's Voices." A Cookbook for Digital Storytelling. 2004. The Center for Digital

Storytelling. 27 Feb. 2005 <http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html>. • "Movie Making for Kids." Digital Movies. Town 4 kids. 27 Feb. 2005

<http://www.town4kids.com/town4kids/kids/digitalmedia/moviemaking/movie_main.htm>. • Half Hollow Hills Central School District. 2005. Half Hollow Hills. 28 Feb. 2005

<http://www.halfhollowhills.k12.ny.us/page.cfm?p=565>. • Apple Main Exhibit. 2001. Apple. 28 Feb. 2005 <http://ali.apple.com/ali/resources.shtml>. • Fryer, Wesley. Tips for Presentations with Movies. 2004. Tools for the TEKS. 28 Feb. 2005

<http://www.wtvi.com/teks/03_04_articles/movie_tips.html>. • “ICT Advise for Teachers.” How to Organise the Use of digital Video in the Classroom. 2004.

Becta. 28 Feb.2005 http://www.ictadvice.org.uk/index.php?section=tl&catcode=as_cu_sec_sub_14&rid=6629

• Ozer, Jan. Movie Maker for Windows 2. New York: Peachpit, 2002. • "Windows Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story." Windows Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story. 27

Nov. 2005. 27 Nov. 2005 <www.papajohn.org>.

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