I have made a movie!

This week we are working in groups to create a demonstrational movie for our individual content areas. In my case it is History and really I have struggled to find a topic that I can make a 5-6 minute demostrational movie about. I have puzzled over it for a while and finally my group decided to do one on a science experiment which is going to be much easier. The assignment is much more than just making a movie of sorts, or it is at least to me. By making movies and different things using imovie students can learn a whole new aspect of what ever topic that you teach. Lets face the facts here in our day the students in school thrive on things such as face book and technology of any sort so when you as the teacher introduce a topic using a movie that you made yourself it will get the students attention and they will take something from it. Imovie opens up doors to do digital field trips and presentations of things that you may not other wise get to cover. This assignment will be challenging but I can apply the principles and things that I learn from it into helping my students better understand History. I may not do to many demonstration movies but I can do other things that will help the students learn the material better.