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Teaching Your Students to Design High Quality Videos

Below you will find resources and links that guide you through teaching your students how to make high quality videos for projects and summative assessments in your classroom. You will find some simple tips and techniques on how your students can use "do-it-yourself", minimalistic techniques to make high quality productions. Any student from any subject level, Pre-K through 12th grade, can use modern technology and make excellent videos.

These Youtube Channels are full of video making tips for beginners, DIY filmmakers, or even experts with access to great technology. If you are more of a beginner then check out the earlier / older videos on these channels. The older videos have valuable tips and techniques to get you started. The newer videos on these channels have great advice for advanced filmmakers.
Film Riot
Indie Mogul
Videomaker



If you teach media design, filmmaking, or broadcast journalism, then join the Student Television Network. You will gain access to filmmaking tutorials and sample lesson plans. You will also receive a listserv email full of teacher discussions and collaborations, news, and resources.
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Here is a copy of the presentation I gave at KORCOS.
KORCOS 2014 How to Teach Students to Create High Quality Videos.pptx
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Here are some more resources for your students: storyboard templates, a script and how to write a script, and a checklist for making videos.
Storyboard Template
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Sample TV Commercial Script & How to Write a TV Commercial Script
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Video Production Checklist
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Here are some lesson / unit plans, both day by day and an understanding by design unit plan. There are some grading rubrics, and two sample video project assignments. One video project is for a non-media class (AP Psychology) and one is for a media / journalism class.
Documentary Unit Plan - Detailed Daily Lessons
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mmj_ubd.docx
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Sample Grading Rubric and Semester Project
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AP PSYCH Unit 9 Piaget Projects
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MMJ Documentary Assignment, Directions, Grading Rubric
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