Week 8

This blog is in response to Strassman and O'Connell's article titled, Authoring With Video. The authors define authoring with video (AWV) as an activity in which students are given a topic and short video clips about that topic. The video clips contain no sound. Students are required to create the narrative for the video. Using special software programs, the words spoken by the students are automaticaly turned into print which is found at the bottom of the video clip. The students can then edit this text.

I was unaware that there were programs that allowed students to do this. I think that many students would be very motivated by this activity. I find that when discussing a topic, students have a lot to say, but seem to lose that voice when they are asked to write about that same topic. This is a great way to combine technology and writing!