We brainstorm ideas for using video in primary education. You practice creating a narrated screencast of your Project. You record an interview with your partner and learn to use video editing software. FOLLOW-UP • Post your screen cast and interview to your blog. • Make a start on creating your video essay, perhaps incorporating sections of your screencast. • Draw any remaining work on your Scratch project to a conclusion and assemble media you wish to use in your video essay. • Chapter 5, Microworlds: Incubators for Knowledge in Papert (1980) ADDITIONAL RESOURCES • Chapter 3 of Pritchard (2008) • Counts (2004)

2. Multiple Intelligences

3. Video in primary schools
 Recording evidence
 Multiple literacies
 Live action
 Kit?
 Edited vs raw footage
 Animation
 Stop motion
 Computer generated (‘tweening vs programming)
 YouTube etc
 Concerns?

4. Key text for your work as
a student
Counts, E (2004) Multimedia
Design and Production, London:
Pearson
ED Counts’ web site

5. Be a moviemaker
“With contemporary technologies,
virtually anyone can be a
moviemaker … Even more
revolutionary than simply making
our own movies, we can distribute
them to the world via the World
Wide Web.” (p8)
Counts, 2004

6. Be creative
“… students and teachers can
learn to use multimedia tools,
theories and skills to create
original , inventive and
expressive works of high
technical quality.” (p7)
Counts, 2004

7. Spectacular results
“Unfortunately, if one wishes to
use multimedia tools creatively,
there is no way to avoid the
many hours that it takes to learn
to use them. Most often,
however, the time spent pays off
in successful and sometimes even
spectacular results.” (p9)
Counts, 2004

8. Vision
“The creative and expressive
power of contemporary
multimedia production tools is
nearly unlimited … [but] merely
having some skills in operating
tools and devices cannot
compensate for a lack of vision,
imagination, motivation, passion
and above all, a point of view.”
(p12)
Counts, 2004

9. f. Provide a critical justification for the place of
multimedia games in school, in the form of a video
essay. (20%)
You should, drawing on your readings and your
experience in this project and elsewhere, critically justify
the use of multimedia games in school to support or
extend learning. Create an edited video, of no more than
3 minutes duration, in which you give your views on this
question
This and final versions of the above sections must be
submitted on or by 20th May.

10. An excellent video essay should:
•critically reflect on readings and personal experience,
making connections and comparisons between these;
•explain rather than describe;
•include both live recording and illustrative screen
captures;
•be coherent and well structured;
•ensure the quality of the video is acceptable, e.g. set the
white balance/exposure, frame the subject appropriately;
•have titles, credits, a voiceover and carefully chosen
music/sound effects;
•exhibit good standards of spoken English and be no
longer than three minutes.

12. Screencasts

13. Ken Burns

14. Green Screen

15. Talking Heads

16. Establishing Shots

17. Stock Footage

18. Referencing
Lord, P & Park, N. (2000) Chicken Run.
[VHS Video]. UK: Pathe Distribution

19. To follow up…
 Post your screen cast and interview to
your blog.
 Make a start on creating your video
essay, perhaps incorporating sections
of your screencast.
 Draw any remaining work on your
Scratch project to a conclusion and
assemble media you wish to use in
your video essay.
 Chapter 5, Microworlds: Incubators
for Knowledge in Papert (1980)