Moviemaker MADNESS

Moviemaker is a brilliant technological tool. I thought putting my photos into a motion picture was going to be painstakingly hard but I was pleasantly surprised how quickly it all came together. Maneuvering around the site was easy, once you have your photos and video uploaded it was just a case of dragging and dropping them in sequence into the timeline along the bottom of the screen. Then, it was time to add your special effects. It was amazing what the addition of music does for your clip. I did mine on a family day Go Karting at ‘Kenrose Park’. It is very basic but honestly, it has only taken a couple of hours. If you were inclined, you could easily invest more time and have a high quality piece of work to claim as your own. The quality of this tool has really impressed me.

In the classroom, moviemaking could be used across all genres eg. reporting, story-telling, interviewing, instructional, investigating and persuasive speech. Most students would engage, if the topic was relevant to them. Furthermore, this would be an ideal tool for collaborative learning. The Learning Engagement Theory springs to mind.

Plus:
Highly engaging (verging on addictive)
Suitable for all learning types, visual, audible and kinesthetic
Accessible and inexpensive
User friendly

Minus:
Time consuming
Making sure students give attribution where required

Interesting:
You can always make your movie better...just depends on how much time you have!