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October 15, 2001
Now Playing in Schools: Digital Video
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Scenes From a Digital Classroom
While teachers and students can create full-length feature films using digital video, most are incorporating shorter, more focused video clips into multimedia projects. Here are two quick examples of how it's being done.
-The math department at the Scarsdale Middle School in Scarsdale, N.Y., uses digital video to capture images of objects in and around the school that are geometric shapes-such as an octagonal stop sign. They combined the video with lecture notes captured live from a digital whiteboard, and later exported the footage to iMovie, Apple's DV editing software. The video is then used in class to give students visual clues about shapes and to help reinforce geometry lessons.
-Last year, fourth- and fifth-graders from the Katherine Finchy Elementary School in Palm Springs, Calif., created their own science fiction adventure using digital video they captured and edited as part of a six-week interdisciplinary project. The students shot scenes of each other visiting the surfaces of other planets, used advanced editing features to beam people in and out of scenes, and then combined the video with still images taken from the NASA Web site. The resulting five-minute clips became part of a multimedia presentation.
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