1. Based on the resources available, how might Dafna organize this activity?
Dafna will need to be creative in how she distributes the tools used to make a video. Some have mentioned that groups will need to be made and I agree with this. As far as finding time to give each group her video camera, I would think she may want to ask her students if anyone had access to their own video camera. This would help a lot, and though she can’t rely on this, there would probably be at least one person who had access.I thought I would add something that I did with my Media 10 students. I recorded my students with my personal camera ‘all year long’ as they worked on projects and did presentations. Afterwards, I put gave each student access to the footage and had them work in groups of two to create a memorable video with any music and captions that they wanted. What was cool is that everyone had the same raw footage but the product of each video was so different. I used this as a teachable moment to emphasize diversity and point of view. We are all so very different and we can come to different conclusions even when presented with the same information as other people.
Dafna will need to be creative in how she distributes the tools used to make a video. Some have mentioned that groups will need to be made and I agree with this. As far as finding time to give each group her video camera, I would think she may want to ask her students if anyone had access to their own video camera. This would help a lot, and though she can’t rely on this, there would probably be at least one person who had access.I thought I would add something that I did with my Media 10 students. I recorded my students with my personal camera ‘all year long’ as they worked on projects and did presentations. Afterwards, I put gave each student access to the footage and had them work in groups of two to create a memorable video with any music and captions that they wanted. What was cool is that everyone had the same raw footage but the product of each video was so different. I used this as a teachable moment to emphasize diversity and point of view. We are all so very different and we can come to different conclusions even when presented with the same information as other people.
2. How might she disseminate the music videos, once created?
I like the idea of having the students learn how to upload videos to YouTube and share their video with whomever they would like. I also like that the students can begin learning about privacy issues that are so important.
When I did my Media 10 videos I was not familiar YouTube, so I burned a DVD of each video for each student. That way they could take it with them after the course. We also did a sort of video party and it was a lot of fun.
Kevin