Pedagogical basis for the student produced video projects

Research shows that projects involving student video production have the potential to motivate student learning in deep and meaningful ways, providing opportunities for them to reflect on their experiences and construct their own learning. Video production requires integration of aural, oral, textual, gestural, spatial, and multimodal communications, and language required to communicate about images, music, motion, and film.

Participation in video production projects provides opportunities for students to develop a variety of skills, including critical viewing skills, language and communication skills, observation and investigation skills, collaborative learning skills, thinking, reasoning, and problem solving skills, project management and organizational skills, and visioning and analytical skills.

Video production is interactive, immersive, and student centered. It helps students build skills across the curriculum while developing greater understanding in the given content area.

Students enjoy producing and publishing their work for an audience. Publication in turn provides more opportunities for interaction and feedback.

From "Creating and Assessing Video Assignments"

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