WeVideo
WeVideo is an easy, drag-and-drop video editor. The app allows you to use media from your phone, access media you have uploaded to the cloud storage, and take pictures directly in the app. WeVideo applies your chosen theme to your video, including music (unless you choose to use your own) and transitions. When you are finished, you can publish to WeVideo and YouTube directly from the app!
The best things about WeVideo
- WeVideo utilizes a drag-and-drop format, making it simple to add media and rearrange clips.
- WeVideo automatically moves all of your device's media and music into the library, so you don't have to search for songs, images and videos to use.
- The theme you choose automatically includes music and transitions.
- WeVideo publishes your video directly to WeVideo and YouTube.
The constraints of WeVideo
- Your media is not sorted in your WeVideo library, so if you're looking for a specific image or video, it can take awhile to find it.
- Your options to customize are very limited, unlike the we version.
- You can't add text slides to your video, only captions along with the clips.
- You must publish your video, as opposed to just downloading it to your device.
How to use WeVideo
Original artifact made with WeVideo
How students can use WeVideo
- Math Procedures - As shown in the original artifact video above, WeVideo is a great tool for making procedural videos. Students can take images directly in the app, making it simple to photograph the steps as they go and add them directly into the video.
- Scene Re-enactments - Students can re-enact scenes from books or plays using WeVideo. They can summarize the dialogue, update it, or even do silent films where the actions and music are responsible for conveying the content and meaning of the scene.
- Experiment Summary - WeVideo would be a great tool for documenting the steps of an science experiment. Students could use images or record videos of the various components of the experiment, as well as their results. This would both summarize their learning and present their findings.
- Oral History - Students can create a video that tells the story of a person in history, or a person of interest today. They can also include images and a theme that fits the topic of the oral history, as well as the mood of the content.
- Self-Assessment - Students can create videos assessing their own work. In the video, students can include images of their work, as well as a rubric they have filled out for themselves. This reflection could include their procedure, and reflective commentary about the steps involved as well.
How teachers can use WeVideo
- Introducing a Unit - A quick WeVideo movie is a great way to introduce a new topic or unit. Just like a movie trailer gets you excited about seeing a film, a unit trailer gets kids excited about what they'll learn and participate in with a particular topic.
- Flipped Lessons - While WeVideo is probably not comprehensive enough to support a fully flipped classroom, it could certainly be used for flipping the occasional lesson, or for creating videos to assist students with their work at home. Whether the video includes images of the various steps involved, videos of the procedure being carried out, or a clip of a lecture, a quick WeVideo product could easily assist students and their parents in understanding the content at home.
- Feedback - Teachers can record a quick audio track with their devices, take some images of student work, and compile a short video offering feedback of student work.
- Work Examples - WeVideo would be a great way to compile examples of student work you want students to be able to reference when working on a particular project.
- Modeling Collaboration - Teachers collaborate all the time, in lesson planning, PLCs, grade level meetings, and so on. However, we rarely think to let students look in on our conversations to they can see what real, quality collaboration looks like. Shooting a quick video with a device and making a WeVideo with it allows students to see how they should behave and participate when working in groups.