I have learned so much about Digital Video Editing in the last several weeks than I could have ever imagined. Video is all around us, most of the time when we are watching video we don't realize all that is behind the video design process. Digital Video Editing (DVE) is the process of putting together parts of video manipulating and changing them to make a new video. Through the video editing process, we are able to add sounds, images, and special effects. It is extremely important to create a treatment, storyboard, identify an audience and purpose, and rehearse.
Although I already had my students create a weather report video, there are many benefits of video editing through thinking and software skills. I did not have my students edit their videos, but they saw the fine details that were included to make them just right! Next time I use video in my classroom, I want to provide my students with the opportunity to practice with DVE. The collaboration, synthesizing, and creating they are able to experience will make the video that much for meaningful to them. If they are able to put their own effects and sounds in just the right places, they will take away associations that I would maybe not be able to provide them. Although there is a lot of work that goes into DVE, I am looking towards the future for my kiddos. I know that if I teach them the skills right now, then they will take these concepts with them wherever they go. I would love to learn more from third or fourth grade teachers how they incorporated DVE into their classrooms. Were there many how to lessons with play and practice? Our school has just offered an iMovie making class as an after-school activity. I am curious to go check it out and see what my students are learning, which will make learning more fun for them in the classroom. DVE is an extremely hands-on approach to learning and I have a class full that would love it!
