Videography 101

This is a video about how to make a video! :)

Top Ten Blogging Tips

1. Do: Keep everything legible, using appropriate fonts and contrasting colors. 
2. Don't: Put too much on the page and avoid overcrowding. 
3. Do: Provide a place for students to download assignments they may have missed.
4. Don't: Share personal information on the blog (use it only for the class). 
5. Do: Limit the blog's availability so that only students, parents, and coworkers can access the information. 
6. Do: Keep the language and style professional and avoid silliness.
7. Do: Provide a way for students and parents to offer feedback. 
8. Don't: Share any student's work without his/her permission. 
9. Do: Keep an archive of past posts so that the information is not lost. 
10. Don't: Post anything of vital importance on the blog without either also sharing that information in class or remaining students to check the blog. 

2 minute Individual Video

Here is a link to a practice individual video I edited on youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvRzYK4V9PU&feature=youtu.be

Rules for a Webquest

1. Make sure that the websites that you use work and the students can find what they need to on the site. 
2. Don't jump around from topic to topic on your webquest make sure it all flows together. 
3. Make your webquest a little more exciting with videos or interactive things for the students to do. 
4. Don't make your webquest too long, too much stuff packed in to one webquest could make it boring and not a good learning experience. 
5. Make sure that students can find the answers to the questions that you ask them on the website. 
6. Don't have students read a bunch of text or do things that are too time consuming on one website. 
7. Do add pictures and boarders to your webquest worksheet to make it more fun and inviting for the students to do. 
8. Don't use videos or websites that are not age appropriate. Know where your students are developmentally! 
9. Make sure that if you have the students play a game on a website that it is a game that will actually teach them something.
10. Don't use a font or pictures on your webquest worksheet that will be unreadable or distracting.

Video Top 10 Do's and Don'ts

1. Lighting: You want to be able to see what you're filming. The lighting should not be too bright as well. 
2. Background Noise: make sure you're not in a place that is very noisy with talking, music,wind, traffic, and the like. 
3. Don't cut mid sentence or during important phrases or words. 
4. Add background music to make the film more inviting and fun. Use appropriately. 
5. Filming: Make sure the footage is not shaky. The footage needs to be usable for a professional clip. 
6. Add credits to the film. 
7. Transitions: adding transitions to the film will help with organization of the story and the overall flow. 
8. Add a picture when necessary.
9. Do cut out unnecessary material. Ex. Background noise, bloopers, unusable footage. 
10. Text: Make sure the text is legible and the font and colors are appropriate.

Inside the Earth Prezified!

Inside Planet Earth on Prezi

Rules of Prezi!

1. Don't : Make sure you don't make your frames too far apart as to cause motion sickness. You don't want to give your audience a headache!
2. Do: Use themes and colors that go well with your topic. Use colors that complement each other. 
3. Don't : Over crowd your Prezi board, too much in a small space can be overwhelming.
4. Do: Use the zoom tool to focus in on certain parts of your Prezi at certain times. 
5. Don't : Make things too small that they are unreadable to your audience.
6. Do: Use pictures and videos to make your Prezi more exciting! You can view a video right in your Prezi presentation!
7. Don't : Have too little information on your board. This would be boring and not engaging.
8. Do: Use Frames to group information that goes together. 
9. Don't : Be too wordy. Keep the text limited to key phrases and main ideas.
10. Do: Use the google search to easily insert relevant images.