Youtube Video Production Curriculum

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Save a Horse on schoolserver a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what...

Learning to Change Techies talk about the lack of technology use in education. ranked 55th

Shifts Happens a Did you Know piece. necessary for us to know. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q

Another Did You Know of great importance to our scholars. From: Dawn Sahouani I use youtube videos from time to time and was wondering if you have any suggestions to add to my repertoire.

Blow up a whale news story of a dead whale that washes up on a beach. The highway department decides to blow it to smithereens so that the seagulls, crabs and scavengers will carry away the last bits of the stinking carcass. "Blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds" is a great example of alliteration. Beyond that, it's a great reminder that what one EXPECTS to happen isn't always what WILL happen. Investigate the realm of possible outcomes. Plan for and adjust strategies accordingly.

Honda Accord commercial Every action has an impact on something else. We are all connected. Beyond that, it's just cool.

Cement guy revenge http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wwqeqb1dmP4 This is a European commercial without words. I use it to talk about jumping to conclusions before having all the evidence. I've also used it in a grammar unit as a way of generating lists of verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.

Dutch glider commercial http://youtube.com/watch?v=OkDFuFkZSF0 Again, European commercial with no words. I use it the same as the cement truck, but also "show don't tell" and writing narratives from varying perspectives.

Maids clean crime scene
Be sure to cover all your bases, or in this class - tape off all the entrances! I love the Centraal Beheer commercials. If you put "Centraal Beheer" as your search words, you'll hit on a whole string of them.

Introducing the Book Our tech people appreciated it a lot! Billy Collins has a series of animated poems that are interesting.

Animator v. animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c24t7Onr_Pw Highbrow view: Brilliant use of "self-referential" media; postmodernist Lowbrow view: kick-ass animation

The Web is Us/ing Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl Could be Ted Nellen's biopic...interesting analysis of shift from WWW to Web 2.0

whiteboard animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u46eaeAfeqw excellent stop action achieved simply by drawing on a white board

Scandanavian beatbox master: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVCb52iQrfo achieved not by voice, but by terrific video editing