Day 31- 3/28/07

Today we will present our iMovie creations.

Before we begin, I would like for us to develop an understanding on why Media Education is so important:

Media Education is an educational process intended to prepare students to critically and responsibly read, use, and create media in all its forms.

The old literacy required that our students could read books. The New literacy is that they critically understand media.

Media Education has three objectives:

• Help students understand media
• Help students understand the impact media has on individuals and society
• Help student create media

First, media education is focused on helping students learn to “read” different forms of media. To “read” media means that students can critically analyze the content, format, audiences, goals and the processes by which a book, film, Internet site or other media is used.

Second, media education is aimed at enabling students to develop an awareness of the impact that different media exerts on society, as well as the need for social responsibility by both the producers and users of media such as TV, film and the Internet.

Third, media education involves empowering students to develop their own skills in designing and producing a wide variety of media. The ability to express oneself in multiple media is an increasingly important outcome of education.

The use of video in education has been around for a long time, but it is just in recent years that it has become simple for classroom teachers and children to create and edit their own educational videos. The Apple Learning Interchange gives multiple examples of using educational video for teaching content standards.

You've finished the first portion of the iMovie project - creating a digital story. So, you've learned the tool, but we haven't yet talked about how this tool can assist in the teaching and learning process.

There are multiple examples of teaching with digital video and still images. Here is a few of them:
Watershed Documentary - High School Science
A Living Alphabet - Elementary Language Arts
Meet the Artist - Middle School Social Studies and Art

You can also do a search with the phrase "teaching with digital images" and you'll find a wealth of resources, or you can search the Apple Learning Interchange site for your iMovie reflection examples.

Let the show begin!!!!