Making Mini-Movie Makers

by Luke Kent - Date: 2006-12-06 - Word Count: 244 Share This!

Are you looking for an exciting way to get your students to write? Well, you might only be a few clicks away from getting some great compositions from your kids.

Movie Maker is a great software program that comes with most PC's and allows students to bring their writing alive. Before assigning a Movie Maker project educators should create their own mini-movie so that they are familiar with the basics of Movie Maker and to give their class an idea of what your expectations are.

Here are some tips about teaching students how use Movie Maker.

1) Have students write their stories on paper or a word processor before introducing them to Movie Maker.

2) Show your short movie to the class and demonstrate how to insert text, pictures and sounds in Movie Maker.

3) Have students plan out their story frame by frame and plan out how they will use sounds and pictures to enhance their compositions.

4) Students should first enter their text into movie maker and then add fonts, backgrounds, pictures and sounds.

5) Once students understand how to perform a task have them teach other students. This will save you time and you will find that some students will discover features that you didn't even know about.

Movie Maker is another program that can also be a useful tool for students with learning disabilities since they allow students to create projects without a large amount of writing or reading.

For more lesson ideas and great reference material visit http://MrKent.Net.

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Mr. L. Kent is an experienced educator and president of http://MrKent.Net - Education Technology Made Simple.

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