Video Production in a Cooperative Learning Environment

There are several roles that take part in making a video that, as a teacher, you must think about. Your role in the video is the producer. The producer is responsible for seeing that the video is created on time and on budget. The producer is also responsible for hiring a crew (your students). Before ‘hiring’ your crew, explain all of the positions and responsibilities. You can either let your students choose their role, or assign a role to them. Because creating a video requires a team effort, you can assign multiple students to a role.

Your more creative students might be drawn to the screenwriter position. This position requires them to create the content of the video. The more outgoing students will likely want to take on the role of the talent, the actors and actresses. The students that try to run the classroom any time you’re not looking will love the role of the director, which is the person that direct their peers to stay on task. Your more introverted students will want the behind-the-scenes positions, such as the camera operator, editor, technical director, costume, makeup, and set and props staff. There’s literally a role for every student in your class. When the final product is complete your students will have worked together to create an awesome project that they will proudly show off to everyone.