7.1 Storyboard a video project

 

 Today's post is very special, because it is collaborative! It was created with Aurora's Learning Adventure, Nurinu Teacher and It's Pateacher Corner. The task was to create an educational video.

Here you can find the script we created and the information we used in a Google Docs. Moreover, you can see the storyboard we designed as the basis for our videos with Canva. 

Story Board - YouTube video

Critical questions and problems encountered

The first issue we encountered was choosing a topic. We chose for Fridays For Future, as it is a trending issue, and started looking for information. Related to the format, we went for a Youtube video where the owner of the channel introduces a topic and moderates a debate between experts. 

The hardest part was to create the dialogue. Our goal was to create a short video to be used in a flipped classroom, not taking much time from students. At the same time, we tried to condense the most important information, using vocabulary adapted to the students’ level, but adding interesting words too. In our storyboard we added the effects we wanted to include. 

Discoveries

I was not aware that Canva had templates for storyboards. It seems that have templates for everything! That facilitated the task as we were already used to work with ir. Plus, it is collaborative, so it saved us a lot of time. 

* The uses and connections, pros, cons and Martyrating of Canva are detailed in this post*

Stay tuned for the final result! We hope you like it. 

4.3 Create an infographic about your subject

Visual representations of information or data.

I created an infographic to be used in Natural Sciences, in 6th grade for the topic of the digestion using Canva.

Digestive Process by Marta Díaz-Madroñero Ramírez

Critical questions and problems encountered

At first I was overwhelmed by the ammount of templates that were available. I looked twice and I noticed that half of them were premium. However, it was not like other resources where the free version was terrible compared to the premium one, in this case the free ones were very interesting. 

I went ahead, chose a template and started adding my touch to it. I wanted to change the colours and I found out how to do it quickly: there is an option on the left bar called "more", then you click on "styles". There, you can find pre-made colour palettes instead of creating them by yourself, along with fonts.

Everything was too good to be true. Once again, the premium version ruined my ideas: most of the pictures were only available for the premium version. I had to look for the pictures outside Canva, adding them to my infographic giving credit to the authors. I used Flaticon for the pictures, changing the colour to match my infographic. I highly reccomend it, even though I could not save more than 3 for later, you can download as many as you want.

Discoveries

As many tools suggested by our master's degree teacher, I knew Canva but I had never used it before. I supposed it had basic resources, like images and frames. Nevertheless, when I started investigating I found out it has a lot of stickers, charts, lines... 

Moreover, you can add video and audio from your desktop, which is unusual for this type of plattform as they usually allow you to link resources or pay for the premium version.

Uses or connections

It has a lot of potential, specially for education: infographics, videos, lesson plans, bookmarks, schedules, posters... It can also be used as teachers to spread our own resources by using the templates for Facebook or Instagram. Even to create your resume and impress the principal of that amazing school you want to work at!

Martyrating

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Pros: 

• Easy to use
• Nice and varied free templates
• Wide options for customising the elements (colour, size...)
• Many free elements to use
• Wide variety of fonts
• Allows you to insert images, videos and audio
• Embed content from other apps

Cons: 

• Many pictures and templates are premium

See you in the next post,