Immaginative Bridges - 9
Using video in the high school robotics class
I've always wanted to make videos with my students and I've tried several times prior to this semester but the results were usually poor. It was not the students fault. It was do mainly to poor quality equipment and my lack of ability to make the old out dated equipment work properly. I know I needed to fix this so this fall I wrote a grant to obtain a Macbook Pro to use in editing video and I set aside some of my robotics budget to buy newer video cameras for use on land in addition to the ones we use underwater on our robots.
I've learned quite a bit while making these short videos for CEP 882 and I wanted to get my students into the act as soon as possible and before we left for Palau. One of my goals for this year was to create a short documentary about our project. I think that may now be possible.
We purchased the new Macbook Pro three weeks ago and my students have used it just about every day to edit videos shot in class and to make videos introducing the class to all their followers on Facebook before our Expedition to Palau. I would like to share some of these with you here:
We have also been fortunate enough to receive two brand new "Hero3, Black Edition, Cameras" from GoPro. GoPro donated these for our upcoming trip.
This video was prepared by one of the members of our engineering team using a GoPro camera and the new MacBook.
This video was posted to our team's Facebook page and ended up being liked by almost 2,000 people and being shared 50 times.
We also created team introduction videos. We created one for the engineering team and one for the marketing team. These videos both ended up helping us quite a bit. We learned last week the "The Discovery Channel" would be creating a short feature presentation about our project for one of their shows called "Daily Planet." We used these videos to introduce the producer to our students and based on these videos she was able to set up interviews for tomorrow with my students. "The Discovery Channel" will have a film crew in Palau to video tape my students on March 26-27, 2013. Based upon last years trip we all ready know the film company "Roll'em Productions. Roll'em is owned by an American expatriate formerly from East Lansing, Michigan. He spent time setting up interviews with the local media in Palau last year.
Here are the introduction videos created by my students in class:
I think that the use of video has enriched my class and helped to create are more compelling educational experience. Through the process of creating videos my students have been given another way to express themselves and to show others what they have leaned in this class.
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