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KET School Video Project — Our Environment: Local Solutions

Monday, May 6th, 2013 by Jeff Gray, KET

ketsvp_environment_banner2Our special KET School Video Project— Our Environment: Local Solutions, is complete. In addition to our year-around invitation to share student-produced videos on all subjects at KET’s School Video Project website, the Our Environment: Local Solutions special project was an opportunity to integrate multimedia technology and media studies with science curriculum in a fun and meaningful spring project. We received some excellent videos that we hope you’ll watch and share. They’re good models for anyone interested in producing student videos on helping the environment.

waynehigh_monicachairSchools uploading videos to KET by April 30 were entered in a prize drawing held on May 1 for an iPad and video production accessories including a tripod, and a tripod adapter and microphone for iPad. Wayne County High School’s Tim Withers won the prize drawing for his school after uploading,
Our Environment: Eco Friendly Furniture, a project produced by his daughters, Monica and Erica Withers, featuring Monica’s furniture made from recycled cardboard! In the video, Monica also shows how she uses the free Sketchup software program to design her eco-friendly structures and homes. Great work by Monica and Erica!

Kentucky public, private, and home schools are always welcome to upload example project productions to our KET School Video Project website. Watch for new, special-focus video projects that we’ll add from time to time. Next up, a special video project focusing on kids’ health. We hope you’ll participate!

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Gallatin Middle Students Use iPads for Video at KET Media Lab

Thursday, January 31st, 2013 by Jeff Gray, KET

Ms. Michelle Lawrence brought students from Gallatin County Middle School to KET on January 17 for a tour of KET’s digital production facility and a workshop in the KET Media Lab on Using iPads for Video Production.



iPads, iPhones, and other portable devices with cameras continue to become useful tools for education, and using them for student video production is fun and efficient. The learning curve for video production as compared to pc-based software is drastically reduced — especially for editing — and the quality of the finished productions is impressive. A video project can be done from start to finish in much less time, with a minimum of equipment (iPad, tripod adapter, external microphone, iMovie or other edit software), and for much less money than pc-based solutions.

Here’s a great use of the iPad and the iMovie app by Camille Davis’ students from Lexington’s Christ the King School for the KET School Video Project: Election 2012.” Camille also started her students off with a KET Media Lab workshop on Using iPads for Video Production. Check out the excellent video quality and sound of the video these very well-prepared and charming young students made — all with just an iPad ($499) and the iMovie video editing app ($5.00), which includes graphic templates and free-to-use music backgrounds — and for much less than the cost of a camera, a pc with editing software, and other gear. Improvements could be made by adding a tripod adapter and tripod, and an external microphone, which could together add about $150 or so — still well below pc-based video production costs. That brings easy, effective, and fun video production much closer to more schools.

If your school is within driving distance of KET and you’d like a free workshop (and a tour, time permitting), contact Jeff Gray, KET Education Division at jgray@ket.org; 800-432-0951 ext. 7263, 859-258-7263.

And, if you and your Kentucky students are already using iPads, iPhones, or other portable devices to make student-produced video projects, please upload examples of your work to the KET School Video Project website to share (please list what you used to make your videos in the “Notes” field of the upload form). Call or email Jeff if you have questions or need help.

Jeff will also be presenting on Using iPads for Video Production at the next  KYSTE 2013 (Kentucky Society for Technology in Education) spring conference (Willis room, 3:45 pm, Thursday, March 14). If you’re headed for the very useful and entertaining spring KYSTE conference, stop in to see and hear about video project recording, editing, and sharing using iPads (and some new information on using iPhones), along with a demonstration of various useful add-on accessories and workarounds that Jeff has found that make it all even better.

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Eastside Technical Center – Engaging Multimedia Instruction

Thursday, January 10th, 2013 by Jeff Gray, KET

Eastside Technical Center of Lexington, Fayette County Schools, has a new set of multimedia production classes and a new teacher: Ms. Michelle Rauch, an enthusiastic leader experienced in multimedia production, having worked for several years in local television.

Students who attend Ms. Rauch’s classes are from Fayette and the surrounding Jessamine and Woodford school districts. Here are some students working on creating and editing music for multimedia projects.

Student projects include a periodic news magazine program that’s shown over the school network, PSAs (public service announcements), and various other special projects, such as this example on student gender issues, People are People, No Matter What, which was also uploaded for sharing to the KET School Video Project website.

Michelle Rauch will be at KET next July 9 and 10 to present at the next KET Multimedia Professional Development Days event on how she and her students are using their new portable a/v production switcher, the NewTek Tricaster pictured above). She’ll be joined by Tim Withers, Wayne County High School Art/Multimedia teacher, who will present on his class’ use of another useful and exciting portable a/v production switcher, the Edirol VR-5. We hope many Kentucky teachers and staff will again join us for the event. Details and registration information will be available at the project website later this spring.

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