This week, I had the pleasure of visiting all of the Foods classes at Londonderry High School. The students created their own versions of those "Tasty"-style videos you see on social media that demonstrate how to make something in 30 seconds. It was a super fun activity that allowed the students to focus on their main content area (cooking or prep skills) while producing a creative and sharable artifact. Here's the one that I made!
Foods isn't the only class that could benefit from WeVideo. Some of the World History classes made "political ad" style videos based on the French Revolution. English classes have created PSAs on topics related to books they are reading. These are all really great project ideas, but consider this...do ALL of your students have to do a "WeVideo" project all at the same time? What if you simply had a project where students had to demonstrate competence in certain content-area skills? That could be a slideshow presentation or a paper or a poster or...a video. Consider empowering your students to choose how they present their understanding to you.
Right now, any student in Londonderry School District can go to WeVideo.com, sign in with Google and start making a video. They can do it for a school project or their own personal use. Don't feel like you need to have me come to your class and do a presentation in order to allow students to use WeVideo. I am certainly happy to come and present, but if a kid asks to use it, say yes and enjoy the results. And if that kid asks questions, I am happy to help them individually.
As always, you and your students are welcome to utilize my tutorial videos. I have playlists for WeVideo Classroom view (my suggested view) and Classic view.
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