I once tried what I thought was a fantastic idea as an English teacher: have students create a movie trailer for a book they had read to present to their classmates. Students did an excellent job carefully piecing together images, footage and background music using a variety of editing software. When they presented in front of their peers, we filmed their presentations and posted them privately on YouTube.
Then YouTube took down the majority of my students' videos
for copyright infringement. Oops.
I had to backtrack and learn more about copyright laws and teach this information to my digital citizens:
I also created a student-friendly printable "cheat sheets" to help students find content for their multimedia projects:
Please feel free to copy these materials and use them for educational purposes.
