Learning with Ulead VideoStudio™ or DVD MovieFactory™

Useful Internet Resources

• How to conduct an Oral History Interview
• The Encyclopedia Britannica™
• Google™ Search and Image Search - Type in keywords relating to their area of interest

Materials

• Teacher materials as necessary for lessons
• Internet resources as listed above or additional resources found by the teacher
• Electronic multimedia such as Encarta™, Britannica™, or other CD-ROM's
• Classroom or school library books on their topic of study
• Word processing program
• Storyboard and scripting templates
• Video Camera and associated equipment
• Ulead VideoStudio™ 7 or Ulead DVD MovieFactory™ 2
• Video tapes, blank CDs or DVDs
• Presentation equipment
• Computer with CD or DVD burner

McREL National Content Standards Addressed

Language Arts - Writing

• Std. 4 - Gathers and uses information for research purposes
  Level III Benchmarks 1-6

Language Arts - Reading

• Std. 7 - Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts
  Level III Benchmarks 1-7

History - Historical Understanding

• Std. 1 - Understands and knows how to analyze chronological relationship patterns
  Level III Benchmarks 4, 5
• Std. 2 - Understands the historical perspective
  Level III Benchmarks 1-6

Procedures and Approximate Times for Completion

1. 1. The teacher will present a lesson on various events of significance from within the last 50 years. (1-2 hours)
2. The teacher will present a lesson on interviewing techniques, and students will practice interviewing each other in role playing situations. (1 hour)
3. Students will be divided into teams of 4 by the teacher, and each team will select a topic area for their interview. (30 minutes)
4. Students will research their topic using the Internet, and various print and multimedia resources. (2-3 hours)
5. Each student team will identify a person to interview, and contact that person regarding their interest in being interviewed. (1 hour)
6. Each team will conduct their interview on camera (1 hour)
7. Students will storyboard, script, edit and author a 3-5 minute video of their interview. (3-4 hours)
8. Students will present their video to the class and answer questions. (30 Minutes)

Assessment
The following site has a wide variety of rubrics that you can look at I order to help you design a rubric that will meet your needs.

• The Source is MidLink Magazine at http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/
• Easily Create Your Own Project-Based Learning Rubric
• After viewing and discussing all the projects you may want to have the students reflect upon their project in writing by addressing the following:
  • What I already knew about the event, or events I studied
  • What new things I learned after researching that event or events
  • How the interview our team did with the person selected added to my knowledge about the event or event our team studied.
  • What I learned from other team presentations.