Movie Maker

Movie maker is an easy to use video programme in which you can create videos using still images and audio.

This digital tool has many benefits for classroom learning as it is a simple and easy to use programme that keeps the focus on learning the content not on the tool itself. It allows students to be able to express their knowledge in a subject area in an engaging way. This digital tool can be used by all age learners as well as by the teacher for presentation purposes.

Through the use of such an effective digital tool in the classroom learning environment students learning is enriched. Students are able to create and present information on a particular topic in many different ways. They are then able to communicate the information with their peers and school community through sharing and presenting their video.
I would use this digital tool in my own classroom due to its effectiveness on students learning. The tool engages students in the learning where students may not be engaged if it is not used. There are also so many different ideas for the use of such a tool in the classroom .Students could use it to solve maths problems and present these to their peers with the video, as well as for writing tasks where students create digital stories. The possibilities with movie maker in the classroom are endless.

Links can be made here with different E Learning frameworks such as productive pedagogies and blooms taxonomy. The implementation of this tool also fits with the engagement theory where students work in groups to solve a problem and create a video with the solution. There would be decision making, problem solving, reasoning and evaluation taking place in this learning experience creating a digitally rich and deep learning environment.

Here I have added a youtube clip about movie maker in the classroom. It gives examples of great ways to use such a digital tool in the classroom as well as states the benefits for students learning.