Movie Maker in the Classroom . Tania Hunt 0505024

1. MovieMaker in the Classroom.Tania Hunt 0505024

2. ICT Today! In the recent Rose review ICT is now to become a centre piece of the new primary curriculum alongside English and Maths. (Rose Review: 2009) “We must recognise that there is a wealth of technology available today, which when used effectively and imaginatively, can compliment the traditional skills and aid teaching. It can bring lessons to life, make learning more enjoyable and can ultimately help children achieve more.” (Crowne:2009) The current aims and purposes of the standards for teaching ICT are for children too: • developIT capability, including their knowledge and understanding of the importance of information and of how to select and prepare it; • develop their skills in using hardware and software to manipulate information in their processes of problem solving, recording and expressive work; • develop their ability to apply their IT capability and ICT to support their use of language and communication, and their learning in other areas; • explore their attitudes towards ICT, its value for themselves, others and society, and their awareness of its advantages and limitations. (Standards site: 2009)

3. Why use Movie Maker! Advantages Disadvantages The negatives to using moviemaker is that it can be time consuming as each little movement needs to be taken a frame at a time to then be put all together. As a school it has to invest in pieces of technology such as tuff cam, digi blue or digital cameras and money can be limited. You need the use of a computer so space and time constraints may hinder the finishing of the complete movie and need to be considered in planning. Some practitioners may not feel they have the skills and knowledge of how to use this piece of technology. • Movie maker is a free programme found on school computers,and it is suggested that, “… it provides students with tools that will enable them to create and share intriguing multimedia projects”. (Dinwiddie: 2009) • Children can use ICT in a fun, imaginative and creative way. • Movie maker helps promotes pupils concentration, collaboration, co-operation and discussion. • It introduces children to movie making and presentations with moving images and sounds. • It is a classroom tool that is inclusive to all. • It is relatively simple and easy to use.

4. Resources • Resources that need to be used in producing movie maker and usually come with voice recording buttons can either be : • a digi blue camera • A tuff camera • A digital camera

5. Resources Other equipment that might be needed to make models are play dough or plasticine . Small world equipment like dolls, transport, animals. Art and craft materials to make backdrops or clip art images. Space. Computer with the movie maker application. Enthusiastic children.

6. Planning

7. Planning When planning for this activity I needed to take into account the group size and experience the children already had of ICT. “Effective planning involves the careful and deliberate sequencing of curriculum content and experiences which build on previous learning and achievements to promote future learning.”(Qualifications and Curriculum development agency: 2009) As a practitioner you need to “Analyse your observations and highlight children's achievements or their need for further support.”(Teachernet: 2009) ICT lends itself well to making cross curricular links, “...ICT can be used to enhance the learning and teaching of another subject.” (Potter and Darbyshire: 2005: 1) It is inclusive for all to access regardless of any additional needs and “enables the pupil to be an active participant in the classroom, not just a passive observer.” (Wheeler: 2005:p 96) By planning this activity it allows children to have a sense of ownership of their own learning as they can produce the finished movie. Movie maker can be used as an assessment piece of work on a topic and also used as a stimulus to a start of a topic.

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9. Assessment • Assessments are the decisions you make using what you have observed about a child's development and/or learning. (Teachernet:2009) • Assessment can be looked at on what all children will achieve what most children will achieve and what some will achieve. • So for this task Most children will: use a multimedia authoring program to organise, refine and present a movie, which incorporate images, sounds, using a range of resources. • Some children will not have made so much progress and will: use a multimedia authoring package to assemble images, sounds on movie maker program. • Some children will have progressed further and will: use a multimedia package to organise, refine and present a movie, which incorporates images, sounds; and present a movie that matches the needs of the audience.

10. Reflections After completing the movie maker activity the children we able to assess themselves on what was learnt and what if any changes they would make in the future. This directly links into the planning on slide 6 reviewing, modifying and evaluating their work. The children expressed that they would of liked more time, they would of made the backdrop bigger and better with clip art pictures. They would of taken more photographs so that the time frames on the storyboard were better and overall make a longer movie. Generally all really enjoyed working together collaboratively which refers to a “method in which learners at various performance levels work together in small groups toward a common goal. The learners are responsible for one another's learning as well as their own. Thus, the success of one learner helps other students to be successful.” This links back to our planning and sharing and exchanging information.(online gdrc.org ) All the children expressed that the would like to use movie maker again.

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