Building+Academic+Vocabulary+Videos

Purpose: To assist other students at Thurston High School with improving their academic vocabulary in Math, Science, Social Studies and Language Arts.

Follow the structure of my TONE video below. If you are going to deviate from this structure, you need to get approval from me first. media type="custom" key="26622104"

__**PRE-PRODUCTION STEPS**__: 1. Create a group that is no larger than 3 people 2. Choose a vocabulary word from the jar. 3. Sign up for a FREE [|Animoto Account]. If you need to use an email to activate first, try using your 12345678@southredford.net account. If that doesn't work, use your personal gmail account. Choose "EDUCATION" as the option for the pull-down menu. 4. Do research on your vocabulary word. Look it up. What does it mean in the context of your specific content area (LA, SS, SC or MA). Find pictures or videos that help YOU to learn the word.

1. Navigate to[| Creative Commons] 2. Search for images in EITHER the Attribution License or Attribution-NoDerivs License 3. Read the license descriptions in the side panel to understand the two different license types. 4. Create a screenshot for SIX different images to represent your vocabulary word in a video.
 * PRODUCTION STEPS**
 * To create a screenshot on a Mac, hold down Command Shift 4 to get a set of crosshairs. Draw a box around the image you want to capture. The images will end up in the downloads file unless you tell it to save to the desktop.**

1. Go to Animoto and click, CREATE. 2. Choose a template. You'll need to find a free template and this could be a bit frustrating. 3. You can have up to 8 images, including slides in your free 30 second video. 4. Your first slide should be a title slide with your vocabulary word on the first line and a definition below it. MAKE SURE everything is spelled correctly. 5. Add your screenshot images. (You can include a caption on some, all, or none of the shots. Your choice.) 6. Your final slide should be a repeat of the first slide. 7. Find copyright free music in the music library that you'd like to include with the video. 8. Make sure to save your work at whatever step you leave off. Otherwise, your work will not be there when you return to work on it. 9. Preview the video and then press publish. 10. Export your video to a 360 p quality MP4 file.
 * POST PRODUCTION STEPS****