Videos are technically a series of images showing incremental changes viewed consecutively at a rapid rate. You can take videos with a variety of equipment including video cameras (duh), digital cameras, web cams, and cell phones. Once you have a video, you can edit it, annotate it, incorporate it into a voicethread, or just post it to youtube.
Some cameras (notably many of the Nikon CoolPix S series) allow you to take images at periodic intervals, and then create time-lapse movies. Some allow you to create stop motion videos by making videos from consecutive images that you take (ala claymation). Finally, you can take a series of images (using interval timing or individual image capture) and make your own movies using a program such as QuickTime Pro ($30.00 update to the free version). QTP also gives you some flexibility in the image playback rate, and allows you to eliminate individual images (like the one where the cat was playinig with the flower).
And just for fun, check out the video that teacher, Richard Colosi, and his first graders (first graders!) from Canandaigua Primary School in New York put together!
Videos make great final projects, JIT mini-lectures, or documents of class presentations. How do you use videos?
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