Question: My students created a iMovie for class on their Macs. I’ve had a couple of students ask how to get the movie sent to me. Any ideas?
Suggested Solution:
When they are finished in iMovie they should export their project as a file:
File > Share > File.
Because of slow upload speeds on home wifi, I would tell them to choose the smallest file size available (or at least Medium quality 720 p):
Then they will choose where the file saves and name it.
Once finished, (this will take awhile), go to where the file was shared and upload to YouTube. Every student already has a YouTube channel with their school Google account. They just need to sign into YouTube with their school email and then add/upload their video.
I think the rest will be pretty straightforward, but they will need to Publish it either as Public or Unlisted so that you can see it,
When YouTube is finished processing it, then just Share the URL of the finished video with you (via Google Classroom, most likely).
This is by far the easiest route, but if there are any issues with it I could recommend a different path.
Every once in awhile you find that tech integration idea that withstands the test of time. Even as the tech tools evolve and change, the learning still holds its value. "Six Shot Stories" is one of those practices for me. As an English teacher, the value of writing Six Word Memoirs created numerous educational benefits with my students. Theme, concise word choice, summarization are all skills emphasized with this simple activity. Pairing the concept with media was brilliant, and Don Goble's One Best Thing book: "Six-Word Story, Six Unique Shots" remains an invaluable resource for delivering the lesson to students.
Recently I worked with the 4th grade classes at West Holt Elementary to share their school's stories through this technique. And Apple's Clips app on iPad was the perfect medium to create some powerful digital stories in a short timeframe.
I began the lesson by viewing Apple's latest commercial for iPad "Homework" and asking students to count the number of cuts, in order to establish the importance of storytelling through a wide variety of camera angles and shots.
Then students paired up to author a Six-Word Story about their school, their classroom, or their daily activities as 4th graders at West Holt Elementary. It is amazing to see such powerful stories created in just six words by students!
I used Don Goble's book on iBooks to demonstrate different shots that were possible, and reminded students of some simple best practices when capturing with iPad. Instructions were emphasized that each shot should be between 3 and 5 seconds and no technique should be repeated (each shot is unique). Students used a storyboard to plan their six shots and then used the camera app to capture each on their iPad.
Finally, with only literally a few minutes of instruction on the Clips app, students assembled and edited their story. Some added all six words of text at the very end, some used one word per shot, and others split up the text in varying ways. Many were able to experiment with the other creative features of Clips as well, even within the one-class time period we had together. Each team of students exported their product to camera roll, then Airdropped to their teacher's Mac in order to upload on a YouTube channel and organize in a playlist.
What I appreciate most about this project as an ELA teacher, is the tremendous focus on concise, clear communication it entails. As a technology teacher I value the creativity and composition techniques that allow student media production to instantly be raised to the next level.
*Each Google account/Gmail address automatically has 1 YouTube channel associated with it. You simply need to activate it to use!
What You Need:
Google account with Google+ enabled
YouTube.com OR YouTube app
Steps to Complete:
Sign in to your Google account.
Visit YouTube.com
Click on ‘My Channel’ from the main menu.
Accept the terms of service to create channel.
Add Channel art and Channel description (optional).
Choose your Channel Settings including privacy settings and customizing the layout of your channel (add a channel trailer and organize playlists into sections)
Create new playlists around topics of interest by either uploading videos or clicking “Add to” button when viewing videos from others.
Share your playlists and/or your entire channel.
Channel Settings
Description (sentence or two describing your channel content, purpose, and intended audience)
Channel art (suggestion: Create graphic with dimensions of 2560 x 1440 pixels or use Canva.com to create YouTube channel art.)
Privacy (can be set at the individual video and/or playlist level as well)
Customize the layout of your channel
Channel trailer (welcome video that will only play when people visit your channel for the first time)
Suggest content to subscribers
Organize playlists into sections (lots of options for organization here)
Advanced settings
Playlists
Can create as many playlists as you want...
But only 10 playlists can be displayed as sections on your channel homepage
Create playlists by class, chapter, or topic
Add videos to playlists directly upon uploading or when viewing from YouTube
Add tags for additional keyword searchability
Uploading videos to your channel
Upload button from YouTube in a browser
Choose Privacy: Public, Unlisted, Private
OR use YouTube capture app (signed in to your account) from a mobile device
While uploading, you can add description, details, etc.
Click ‘Publish’ for it to be searchable/subscribers to get notification
Power in SUBSCRIBING
Require students and encourage others to Subscribe to your channel by clicking once on the button on your Channel homepage.
If you get over 100 subscribers, you can create a custom URL for your channel.
Additional Information
In order to upload videos longer than 15 minutes you must verify your YouTube account (YouTube will send a verification code as a text message or voice mail so that you can verify you are a human YouTuber!)
