Movie Maker Assignment

Movie Maker is another one of the many programs that I have had some previous experience with. I have never had to narrate a video before, so that is a first, but hopefully it will work alright. It took me awhile to get it working on my computer, so we'll just have to see. Anyway, I think this assignment was probably the most fun. We have told our life stories many times, but we don't often get to do it in this way, and this leaves a lot of room for individuality and creativity. I don't always feel like I possess a great deal of creativity, but something like this has endless possibilities, and even someone like me can feel good about what they have created. I can definitely imagine using this in the classroom, especially after taking CIR 411 last semester. We did a project using the FLIP digital cameras that was basically a digital story. We transferred the video to moviemaker and we were free to do what we wanted with it. Movie Maker is fairly simple to use, so I feel that even younger students would be able to do it with little instruction, and I think they would enjoy this much better than simply writing a story with pen and paper. Students are more creative than we give them credit for, so this is a great way to bring that out.
This assignment address many of the NETS-T standards including all of standard one, which is facilitation and inspiring student learning and creativity. It also addresses all of standard number 2, which is designing and developing digital age learning experiences and assessments, and number 3, which is modeling digital age work and learning. This particular program has an endless number of uses both for students and teachers in the classroom and can be adapted to technologically enhance almost any lesson.