Why+include+Video+Production+experiences+in+our+teaching?

Nearly everyone can capture digital footage
Most of our students have the ability to capture footage, whenever they like, through the use of their mobile phones. Many students would have captured footage of some sort; hence, Video Production (VP) would give them the opportunity to utilise that skill and/or develop it if they already have VP experience.

"Blogging as well as podcasting or video sharing has become normal to the everyday life of today's kids. The net generation creates contents, lives in virtual networks and is connected all over the world."

Possible learning opportunities and experiences
VP will provide students with a skill they can continually use and develop, fostering life-long learning. VP also promotes and encourages:
 * collaborative learnng
 * sharing experiences with classmates and, if by choice, the world
 * creativity
 * researching and becoming resourceful
 * time-management
 * inquiry
 * current knowledge
 * useful skills for future use
 * key competencies
 * effective communication
 * students thinking about how they might present their written work visually
 * to rethink and reconfigure their ideas to produce new knowledge in the process of forming a coherent narrative
 * students work to be presented in a format that could be distributed to inform others.

Verrall (2006) believes that video can be used:
 * as a research tool
 * to entertain and educate
 * to stimulate discussion and debate
 * to challenge perceptions
 * to provide valuable witness
 * to campaign and send out a call to action.

The video production process involves critical and methodical thinking, general observation, analysis, and perspective-making skills. As students produce their own videos they will look at visual imagery as a series of choices made by writers, directors, actors, and editors, and will consider how visual images differ in their ability to communicate ideas and emotions to an audience. Creating videos provides students with practice in critical 21st century communication skills. This video presents students explaining why they think VP should be used in the classroom:

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