Integrating Technology

This spring semester I am in a class called Intro to Computers in Education. Here we had to think of some things that we wanted to learn and how we would integrate them into the classroom we wish to teach. One of the things that I have only heard a little about and wanted to know more was Movie Maker. How do you go about making a movie, or letting your students make a movie that can still relate to the material you are covering. I found an article on the FGCU database that touched a little on this subject.
In this article Lauren Richards talks about how students get excited about video games, television, and movies, and shows a way that the students can create their own short film. She talks about integrating science and social studies which is what I would like to teach at The elementary level. This article discusses how the student could just do some simple interviews and you can automatically see how they light up when you are taking learning outside of the book. I think that this article definitly shows how we can integrate movie making into the classroom without it being too complex for young children to understand.

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