In the next two weeks students will create a video interview of their role as Grade 6 programmers. The following paragraph describes the assignment in greater detail.
Video Interview - iMovie
You have been selected to become part of ISB's Game Designers Team. This team is in charge of creating Scratch projects for children in Elementary school. Your task is to create a 4 minute interview video of you for an audience of grade 6 students who will study this course for the first time.
Using your team's Google document, write an outline plan of your personal video. Follow the template that has been added at the end of your document for each member of the team. Outline the exact steps that you will cover in your video. You will use this outline as your script when you record your video. Once you have completed this part, then you can move on to producing the video.
The first part of the video you will explicitly share your course experiences with the spiral of imagine-create-experiment-share-reflect-imagine. For instance, as you worked on Scratch projects, you learned about the process of design. Typically, you started with an idea, created a working prototype, experimented with it, debugged it when things went wrong, got feedback from others, then revised and redesigned it. It’’s a continuous spiral: you get an idea, create a project, which leads to new ideas, which lead to new projects, and on and on. Look for interesting and convincing ways to transmit your ideas with reference to this process of design. You can use the documents that have been published in the course page in PantherNet that give in formation about "Scratch Programming Concepts", "Scratch Reference Guide", and "Creating with Scratch".
The following paragraph can give you an idea about the Sharing phase:
"Once you’ve created a Scratch project, you can share it on the Scratch website, the same way you might share videos on YouTube or photos on Flickr. Or you can embed your Scratch project in any other webpage – for example, embedding an interactive Scratch animation on your school blog page. You can get new ideas for Scratch projects by browsing through projects on the Scratch website. If you like one of the characters or images or scripts in another project, you can simply download the project and use parts of it in your own Scratch project."
The last part of the video is for you to provide “tips” for 6th graders who will be starting a similar course next term. Some example tips are listed below:
- Start simple
- Work on things that you like
- If you have no clue what to do, fiddle around
- Don't be afraid to experiment
- Find a friend to work with, share ideas!
- It’s OK to copy stuff (to give you an idea)
- Keep your ideas in a place where you can refer back to them
- Create scripts, take apart existing scripts, remix
- Lots of things can go wrong, stick with it.
To give you some ideas of the video that you have to create, take a look at the video from Nathan Sitkoff, a real game designer, who explains his career.
Remember that an important indicator of success using Scratch is shown when you not only demonstrate how you applied the "process of design" to learning but also how much you understand and articulate the core ideas underlying this approach (imagine-create-experiment-share-reflect.)
This video will be created using iMovie. At the end of the project, you will share the video in your own blog Web sites, just like I have done using the sample below:
Use relevant sounds in your video as well as text, images and transitions.
For more information on this final project, please look at the following grading rubric.
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