Technology and Literacy Reflections

This video is an informative digital story that teaches high school students to write a persuasive essay for their history class. The video walks students through both the steps of creating an essay and a specific example (the American Revolution). In response to feedback I received, I would liked to clarify that I don't envision this video replacing classroom instruction, but instead I see it as a way to support students when they are outside of class and need a refresher course. I used a new-to-me free video editing program called Da Vinci Resolve to create this video and then I uploaded the final product to YouTube. I recorded 29 separate voice segments and used Creative Commons to search for images that matched with my voice-overs. Then I uploaded each of these in order, finally adding a soundtrack at the end. The last step was to add transitions between the images. I had planned to use WeVideo, another free tool that I am more familiar with, however the downside to WeVideo ...