Sunday, November 27, 2011

Windows Movie Maker

According to Desktop-Video-Guide (n.d.), Microsoft Movie Maker has drag and drop features to make creating and editing your movie clip much easier. After you’ve imported your video clip to software, you drag and drop it to storyboard. The program will divide longer videos into segments but you can drag as many clips to the storyboard as you’d like. Once you’ve arranged your clips, you can shorten them by using the "start/end trim point" feature. After creating your title page, you can drag and drop it in the desired location on storyboard. You drag and drop audio clips to the space on storyboard where it says "audio/music".  
  
I think this is appropriate for K-12 schools because of the software's compatibility to Windows XP desktops (a popular brand of public school desktops), it's easy access to upgrades, and it's easy maneuvering. In the past, I've always ran to YouTube for "how-to" tips not knowing I was viewing a tutorial podcast. it was so much fun learning the Windows Movie Maker software because I was envisioning my future podcast projects. I will definitely use this software in my future lesson planning to keep my students engaged.

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