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The broad reach of what studemedia type="custom" key="6331811" width="320" height="320" align="left"nts can do with videomaking and digital storytelling in a 21st century learning environment can be seen through the examples below. Teachers who understand the benefits for 21st century skills use video to teach students skills in working in teams, communication, mastering technology, task completion, and, many times, core curriculum skills. The engagement of content creation for today's learner cannot be overstated. The examples below are chosen because, for the most part, the students were using basic tools: a basic camera and mike, basic editing programs--free or inexpensive--and only the effects, titles, and transitions available on these basic platforms. There are some exceptions, because students, when engaged, tend to push the envelope to accomplish what they want. These are only a small sample of what teachers and students are doing with video in the classroom.
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If you are visiting this site, please do not download or distribute these videos without permission. These videos for the most came from awards for content creation from student media awards.These one-minute clips are compressions of the final student projects.The videos have been compressed for download, so they will break up full screen. The compressed versions do not represent the quality of the actual video Hopefully, they give a sense of the workmanship of the whole video. Unless you have great bandwidth, they are best viewed in the smaller viewing screen. These are the work of K-12 students, in school, for teaching and learning and came through the California Student Media & Multimedia Festival, supported in part by Discovery Education and Wells Fargo Bank. More information is available at [|www.mediafestival.org]. //-hhd05/20/09//
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Using the genre of the movie trailer (or "preview"), these students give a summary of Shakespeare's Hamlet. With a minimal budget, they used only materials 'at hand.' media type="custom" key="4493466"
 * Hamlet**

A great demonstration that video is fantastic for grasping scientific concepts. This shows the adhesive and cohesive properties of water--a cool physical demonstration of action at the atomic level. media type="custom" key="4040155" While you are in the mood.
 * Balloon Project**

http://vimeo.com/3830864 **Simply Integrated** **- Full Version** ** Fund raiser shot by Laguna Beach High School, Laguna Beach, CA. This shows the difference between digital natives (those who understand and embrace the digital world for education) and those who are not quite into the 21st Century. ** media type="custom" key="4491526"


 * ELEMENTARY**

 **Using My Hands of Mercy**  ** This elementary student documented some remarkable house-building work in the poorest parts of Mexico. **  media type="custom" key="4492954" These elementary students used their video camera and basic editing to attack the problem of telling time. Role playing can be done by parts of the clock, too! media type="custom" key="4492936" With a camera, liberal use of sound effects, and enthusiastic students, this elementary school did an amazing job of bringing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to the screen. media type="custom" key="4494450"
 * Time Team**
 * A Day to Remember**

With a camera, liberal use of sound effects, and enthusiastic students, this elementary school did an amazing job of bringing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to the screen. media type="custom" key="4492928" These students explored the food pyramid in a unique. They roll played, then interviewed the fruits and vegetables, who have gone on strike from the food pyramid. media type="custom" key="4494460"
 * Julius Caesar**
 * Food Pyramid**

These upper elementary students made a commercial for their invention, view changing glasses. Putting them on lets you look at people a completely different way. media type="custom" key="4491764"
 * View Changer**

A camera and little time lapse magic shows a day in the life of an elementary school, from dawn and drop-off to the final bell. media type="custom" key="4492994"
 * A Day in the Life of Greenfield Elementary**
 * Wow! What a Great School!**

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This elementary school created a whole musical showing off the school, its programs, and its people, with original student choreography. This clip is from the blooper reel they ended up. It gives a good representation of what the video included.===== media type="custom" key="4493164" Adobe Bluffs Elementary School, San Diego, CA The making of their video stimulated these students to make their point about recycling, these students use computer graphics, kinesthetics, music, and song. media type="custom" key="4040193"
 * Put Green in Your Routine**
 * Working in Teams: Narrative Filmmaking**

These young students reveal much when they talk about the benefits and challenges of working in teams to complete storytelling projects with a video camera.
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 * MIDDLE SCHOOL**

media type="custom" key="4491518" CSMMF: Middle school students tracked down WWII medal winners on a website and took their camera to interview them about their experiences. What is remarkable about these veterans is that they were men whose families were in internment camps in the United States while they were fighting in Europe. media type="custom" key="4492906" **Burning that Fat!**  The story of exercise, diet, and a return to fitness. These middle school students do a mini-documentary on fitness.  media type="custom" key="4494458"
 * Gabriela and Julio Explain the Orbit of the Earth**
 * Under the spotlights at a press conference for the mayor of Los Angeles at a middle school in Watts, these two students watch a Discovery Streaming video, then explained the concept of the earth's orbit, gravity, and inertia, to the Superintendent of Instruction. It is very hard to hear their voices in the classroom crowded with students and reporters, but they have the science just right! **
 * Gamen Warriors**

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 * HIGH SCHOOL**
 * For Life**
 * CSMMF video from continuation high school Val Verde. Kids convinced the emergency room to let them bring in their camera. These at-risk students learned the software necessary for the nightmare sequence. **


 * Interview with Marion - Black History Month**

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Students found a first-person perspective on the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement from one of the people the movement was about. This look at Black History is done with images, archives, and an evocative primary source. Tracking down interview subjects is a difficult and important supplement to information. ===== media type="custom" key="4493182"
 * We Will Remember**

Students interview Holocaust survivors and use historical images to place this powerful story into context.
media type="custom" key="4494420" **Simply Integrated** **- Full Version** ** Fund raiser shot by Laguna Beach High School, Laguna Beach, CA. This shows the difference between digital natives (those who understand and embrace the digital world for education) and those who are not quite into the 21st Century. ** media type="custom" key="4491526"

media type="custom" key="4491748" Using the genre of the movie trailer (or "preview"), these students give a summary of Shakespeare's Hamlet. With a minimal budget, they used only materials 'at hand.' media type="custom" key="4493466"
 * The Date**
 * Having never produced a video or held a video camera, these five students in special education produce a video on an eternal subject. The protagonist is working in the school garden, talking to his unlikely mentor, the scarecrow. **
 * Hamlet**

A great demonstration that video is fantastic for grasping scientific concepts. This shows the adhesive and cohesive properties of water--a cool physical demonstration of action at the atomic level. media type="custom" key="4040155" While you are in the mood.
 * Balloon Project**

http://vimeo.com/3830864

A high school student uses a camera and a little effect to show his disaffection with his school. In real life, he says it was the video project that kept him in school. media type="custom" key="4492982" Val Verde Continuation High School, Val Verde, CA The continuation high school project tells a story with a heroic arc using special effects, imagination, and performance. media type="custom" key="4494430"
 * Who Am I?**
 * Space Troopers of the 23rd Century**

A Glogster from DEN STAR Tracy B.


 * Diablo Water Polo**

The story of sports and its impact on high school athletes is conveyed with editing, graphics, interviews, and solid direction.
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**Special Effects ** ** A fun look at an effect that requires only a single camera and some imagination. Watch closely... **  media type="custom" key="4043467" From Glogster media type="custom" key="4555524"