I'll have to agree with my classmates in saying that I enjoyed using Windows Movie Maker. It was easy and intuitive to use and I liked the way that you could toggle between the storyboard and timeline views. It was easy to import video and sound and to add captions to the photos. Another student commented that it lacks advanced editing features. While this may be a drawback, I didn't think it would have a huge impact on the tool, depending, of course, on how one was going to use MovieMaker.
One of the best features of this program for school librarians is its ubiquity - almost all, if not all, Windows PC's come loaded with it. So there is no extra cost involved in procuring it. I think students would like using it to create videos and presentations. It would appear to a variety of learners - experiential, visual, intrapersonal, interpersonal,logical, kinesthetic, logical, etc.
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I agree that Movie Maker is easy to learn. I also like that you can use the storyboard view to organize content and do the editing in the timeline view. Prior to using Movie Maker, I would have assumed this tool was too complicated for elementary students. But I’m now looking forward to trying it students in the upper elementary grades. I don’t know if I’d have them edit video in Movie Maker, but it would be great for creating narrated slideshows.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Windows Movie Maker benefits from its ubiquity. Because it is so widely available, it has in a lot of ways set the standard for movie editing software. As most people are at least somewhat familiar with its interface, future products will have to some degree emulate Windows Movie Maker in order to reach as wide an audience as possible.
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