K-5 Student Video Challenge: How’d They Do That?
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Last spring we were overwhelmed by the response from middle and high school students to our Student Video Challenge. Building on that success and responding to the many requests from elementary teachers we are excited to announce our second Student Video Challenge, How'd They Do That, open to elementary students.
Video is a powerful educational tool and when you put a camera in the hands of students, learning grows exponentially. Video production provides students with the opportunity to create their own learning and make sense of the curriculum they face. Also spectacular is the potential for peer-to-peer learning. Who would your students rather listen to: an adult or someone their own age? A peer, of course! Take a student created video, put it in a mobile format, and imagine where it might land. Suddenly students are sharing their videos on cell phones, mobile audio/video players, through email, and online. Learning has moved outside of the classroom and into the students’ informal environment! Imagine…kids teaching kids!
ITSCO wants to foster this kind of creative learning environment through our second Student Video Challenge. The rules are simple:
- make a video
- keep the length under 2 minutes
- address the topic “How’d They Do That”
Use cell phones, camcorders, cameras, pictures, drawings or whatever media inspires you. Follow our online directions for uploading the video to TeacherTube.com (we’ll help you if you run into trouble) and submit a registration form to ITSCO.
Need Ideas? Check out the videos submitted by our middle and high school students at http://www.itsco.org/middle or http://www.itsco.org/high.
Competition Eligibility and Submission Requirements:
- Competition is open to students in grades K-5 who are enrolled during the 2009-2010 school year and in ITSCO member school districts.
- All participants must follow your districts Acceptable Use Policy when posting student work, photos, and/or names on the Internet. ITSCO will not use any student names online or in print, but rather refer to each submission by title, teacher, school, and district.
- Each classroom is limited to one entry. If there are multiple videos created in one class, it is up to the teacher to determine which video will be entered.
- Projects may be the work of a single student or a group of up to four students.
- All video projects must be completed by students with minimal help from a teacher or parent.
- Each entry must be uploaded to www.teachertube.com and tagged with the keyword "2010ITSCOK5". A short tutorial walking you through uploading to teachertube is also available.
- TeacherTube accepts video files in the WMV, .AVI, .MOV, .MPG, .MP4 and .FLV file formats.
- Download a separate Registration Form (Word Doc) and submit to ITSCO through email, mail, or fax.
- Video projects must be 2 minutes or less. Any video longer than 2 minutes will be disqualified.
- Winners will be determined by online vote beginning November 2, 2009 at www.itsco.org.
- Entries must use copyright free material or submit proof of permission to use copyrighted material.
Students Pick the Winner!
All eligible videos will be featured on ITSCO's website for student voting beginning November 2, 2009. Students may log onto www.itsco.org and vote for their favorite video. A set of 5 Flip video cameras will be given to the classroom that produces the winning video.
Dates and Deadlines:
All video projects must be uploaded to TeacherTube and Registration Forms submitted by October 23, 2009. Online voting will begin November 2 and continue until November 6th. Winners will be announced the week of November 9th.
