4th Grade Review Videos
Fourth graders at Davis Elementary have been reviewing for upcoming end-of-the-year tests, so today students in Ms. White’s class helped each other by preparing review videos on various topics. First the they decided whether they wanted to work in groups or alone. This project actually works better if most of the students are in groups since it is bandwidth intensive. Once they were with their groups, they agreed on a topic and did some quick research using the Internet and their class notes. They also collected images to use in their video. Next we went to WeVideo, which is a great site for making and editing online videos. The students signed in with their Google accounts and opened the movie editor. We used the storyboard mode, instead of the timeline mode, since it was simpler for their first video (click the 3 lines in the top left corner to switch from one mode to the other). They uploaded the images they collected and recorded a few clips of themselves explaining the topic. Then they organized their media in the editor, added a Title screen and captions, and selected a theme. Themes make it easy to add filters, transitions, and music automatically, but each of those effects can also be changed individually. Finally the students published their videos, copied the links, and posted them to Google classroom so they could watch each others’ movies for review. You can see some of them here.