Sergio+Mazzarelli's+Students'+Work

==[|EVOVideo Yahoo Group: Msg 408] Videos to Share==


 * Posted by: "smazzare" [| smazzare@yahoo.com][| smazzare] Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:27 am (PST)**

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to share the video slideshows my students I have managed to get my students to create as part of a project that began with my participation in the EVOvideo07 course.

I used video making as part of a second-year college class that focuses on writing and speaking skills. Four other students (two third-year ones and two fourth-year ones) also created videos as part of a technology-oriented class. Originally, I had intended the videos to be about my students' hometowns, but some students were not able to go back to their hometowns to take pictures, so I decided that any place that was significant to them would do.

Once again, I wish to thank all those who kindly provided advice during the EVOvideo course. The video-making activity definitely enhanced my classes and I hope I will be able to continue using video in the future.

The videos can be found on YouTube by clicking on this link <[|http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=orandazaka>http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=orandazaka.] My students and I are grateful to anyone who uses the comment facilty on YouTube to post observations about these videos.

Yours sincerely,

Sergio Mazzarelli


 * Technical Notes**

All the slideshows were created using Windows Movie Maker 2. In most cases, students took the pictures with their camera phones as they did not own digital cameras. I offered to lend them my camera, but only a few accepted. This was probably because the camera phone pictures seemed to be adequate.

I soon abandoned the idea of having all second-year students record the audio simultaneously in the computer lab because when a student spoke her microphone would also pick up the voices of other students sitting near her. Instead, I gave these students individual appointments in my office, where they recorded their voices using a digital recorder (Marantz PMD 671) and a condenser mike (Behringer B5). I put the resulting files on a network drive for students to access when editing their videos. Only the third- and fourth-year students recorded themselves using computers.