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Video Creation/Film Making

What is it?

This form of assessment involves students producing a video either individually or as part of a group. It can be used in a variety of different ways. It can be used as an alternative to a presentation or role play on a topic or project. It can also be used to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a topic in a creative way.

Advantages & Challenges

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Challenges

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Tips for Use

Decide what you want students to learn or demonstrate through their videos. Set clear guidelines to explain what they will need to do and how it will be assessed.
Choose a topic that fits the learning objectives and is suitable for a video project. Alternatively, offer students a choice of topics to choose from.
Teach students how to use recording and editing tools. Provide students with information about preferred software to use.
Share information about style of video and how they can plan for creating it. (See example TUD: A How-To Guide for Student Generated Video (tudublin.ie)

Resources

University of Warwick: Film production (warwick.ac.uk)
Gillanders, J. et al. (2019) A How-To Guide for Student Generated Video, Practitioner Research Project, TU Dublin.( A How-To Guide for Student Generated Video (tudublin.ie))
Schmoelz, A. (2018). Enabling Co-creativity through Digital Storytelling in Education. Thinking Skills and Creativity. 28, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.tsc.2018.02.002

Sample Rubrics

University of new South Wales: Video Project Rubric (uwstout.edu)
University of Texas – Austin: Microsoft Word – Creating a Rubric for Evaluating Media Projects.doc (pbworks.com) (pages: 18 – 28)

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