Video in the Classroom Carnival #4 comes a month early. There were just too many good tips and examples to hold off another month.
Video Production Examples from the Trenches
Mr. Moses’s middle schoolers’ productions. I particularly enjoyed The Clumsy Ninja for its dry sense of humor and well thought out shot selection.
Los Angeles County Digital Voice Award Winners
6th Grade Puppet Shows from Kevin Hodgson’s class.
Kelly Dumont’s elementary film festival winners.
Professional Examples
Alec Couros posts a list of tons of great Youtube videos for teaching technology and media literacy including my own, Mr. Winkle Wakes.
Theory
The Substance of Style. A series of film essays on the influences of Wes Anderson. Watch these to help train your eye on what to look for in teaching and evaluating film.
Literacy Status: Its Complicated, Tom Woodward asks us to think about how we’re teaching literacy. Have we redefined it? Have we let tools take over technique?
Let the Beat Build. Dan Meyer explains why this music video rocks.
Tutorials
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About iMovie ’09 (But Were Afraid to Ask) from Yours Truly.
The Best Cinematic Tutorials Online from Smashing Magazine.
Normalizing Audio in Final Cut Pro by Larry Jordan (also check out his free FCP newsletter)
Lesson Plans
I am learning what a blog carnival is thanks to the #30goals movement on Twitter (thanks to Shelly Terrel). Anyway, I see lots of useful links!