Video is everywhere in communication these days, including on Reels, TikTok, and Youtube, where our students are. Building creative video projects into ELA can help leverage students' interests in these platforms toward building skills in research, storytelling, speaking, and building an argument. Not to mention skills within the genre itself, which are bound to come in handy in many fields.

So today let's dive into video in ELA. We'll cover the best tech platform for straightforward editing, and explore six different project ideas. Hopefully by the end of today's episode, you'll be feeling excited instead of intimidated to get started with your first classroom video project.

Related Links:

Tutorial for creating videos in Canva: https://sparkcreativity.kartra.com/videopage/createavideo 

Sign up for a free Canva for Education Account: https://www.canva.com/education/ 

Free Canva Confidence course: https://sparkcreativity.kartra.com/page/getCanvaconfidence

Amanda Gorman's "Earthrise": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwOvBv8RLmo 

Ada Limón's "A Poem for Europa": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgWbeDNPD6o 

"Enryo" (stop motion animation film): https://smilodon-tulip-cb8w.squarespace.com/winning-submissions (2nd video down)

Documentary Project Unit on TPT (also in the video projects section of The Lighthouse): 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Documentary-Film-Project-l-ELA-Project-l-ELA-Projects--10462782?st=a50b80660705713d043c9b0e88e8adbd&utm_source=Spark%20Podcast%209%2F10%2F24&utm_campaign=documentary%20film%20project 

 

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