Reviewing the videos

Once the videos are completed its time to review and quality check them before sharing. 

Ask the students:

• What are we looking for when we review the videos?
• What should you be looking for from a topic point of view?
• What will make a good video from a computing/editing skills point of view? 

Establish a set of criteria that the finished videos can be judged against, but ensure that the accuracy of the content and the quality of the explanation are among the criteria. 

Alternatively, you can use our Evaluation sheet:

 

 

Discuss how giving and receiving feedback is an important part of life and a way that we can improve, but it must be done fairly and sensitively. Most people can accept criticism when it is constructive and fair, as it feels helpful. Remind the students that unkind or unnecessary criticism can be hurtful, serve no useful purpose and are not welcome here. 

Play your own video (if you have had a chance to make one) or someone’s from the class that is happy to be peer evaluated. Go through the assessment form together asking for their suggestions and modelling the sort of comments that are useful and appropriate. 

Ask each team to swap iPads with another team and watch each other’s videos and evaluate them against your agreed criteria. 

At the end ask everyone to give their assessment forms to the creators of the videos they watched so they have time to look at the feedback. If there are any changes that need to be made they can go back to iMovie, make the edits and then re-save the video to the Photo Library. 

 

Sharing the videos

Depending on the tools you and your students have access to, the following methods may vary slightly, but we have provided guidance on using Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive as sharing options. 

 

Using Google Drive  

Before the lesson, sign in and open your Google Drive. Create a new folder for the tutorial videos. 

 

 

Name the folder and click CREATE. 

 

 

Inside that folder consider how you want to organise the videos your class has created. Having them in subfolders should make it easier for the students to find what they need. If your students have covered a range of subjects that would be an obvious way to organise them, or if they have just focused on one subject, such as maths, you could use the national curriculum programme of study sections (as shown below). However you choose to do it, make a new folder for each category you choose.

 

 

Finally, click on the main ‘front end’ folder drop down arrow and choose Share

 

 

Click the Gear icon.

 

 

Then make sure the following option is unchecked.

 

 

Proceed to enter the email addresses of all the students in your class. You can do this one at a time, or you can paste them in in bulk from another document. If you have a class Google group set up you can also just enter the group address and everyone in the group will get access.  Click the Send button to complete the sharing. 

 

Lesson Task

Ask the students to check that they have exported their finished (and checked) video from iMovie to the Photo Library on their iPad. 

If students have their own school iPad (not a shared device) you may prefer to install the Google Drive app on their devices for them to access the videos that way. 

If not, you can access it via a web browser as you would on a computer. Ask the students to open Safari and sign into their NTLP or school Google account and open Google Drive. 

(If your school uses our NTLP system we can provide you with your students’ account details and passwords, or if required, do bulk password resets for your class. Contact support@ntlp.org.uk for this.)

Once in Google Drive, they should go to Shared with me in the left hand menu and look for the folder you shared with them. Talk through the sub folders you have created and where you would like them to put their videos. Ensure everyone knows which folder they need to put their video into. 

 

 

Ask them to browse to and open the folder where they want to upload their video, then tap New > File upload and choose Photo Library.

 

 

 

Then select the video file and tap Done.

 

 

Once the video uploads you should see it appear in the folder. Keep an eye on which one it is (if other people are uploading videos there at the same time) as it will have a fairly random file name. You cannot name files in the Photo Library on an iPad so it will appear as something like the one in this example IMG_0123.MOV. Immediately tap it once so it's highlighted blue, then tap the three dots on the menu bar above and choose Rename.

 

 

Ask the students to rename it with an appropriate title that makes it really clear what is being taught in the video, then add their names and tap OK

 

 

The video should then appear in the folder with its new title, and be ready to watch (videos can sometimes take a minute or two to be processed before being available to watch).

 

Using Microsoft OneDrive

Before the lesson, sign in and open your OneDrive. Create a new folder for the tutorial videos. 

 

 

Name the folder and click Create. 

 

 

Inside that folder consider how you want to organise the videos your class has created. Having them in subfolders should make it easier for the students to find what they need. If your students have covered a range of subjects that would be an obvious way to organise them, or if they have just focused on one subject, such as maths, you could use the national curriculum programme of study sections (as shown below). However you choose to do it, make a new folder for each category you choose.

 

 

Finally, hover over the main ‘front end’ folder and click the Share arrow icon.

 

 

If it defaults to Anyone with the link can edit, click to change this to People you specify can edit. 

 

   

 

Proceed to enter the email addresses of all the students in your class.  Click the Send button to complete the sharing. 

 

Lesson Task

Ask the students to check that they have exported their finished (and checked) video from iMovie to the Photo Library on their iPad. 

If students have their own school iPad (not a shared device) you may prefer to install the Microsoft OneDrive on their devices for them to access the videos that way. 

If not, you can access it via a web browser as you would on a computer. Ask the students to open Safari and sign into their Office 365 account and open OneDrive.

Once in OneDrive, they should go to Shared in the left hand menu and look for the folder you shared with them. Talk through the sub folders you have created and where you would like them to put their videos. Ensure everyone knows which folder they need to put their video into. 

 

 

Ask them to browse to and open the folder where they want to upload their video, then tap Upload > Files and browse for their video in the Photo Library.

 

 

 

Then select the video file and tap Done.  You can check the upload progress by tapping the Uploading 1 item button.

 

 

Once the video uploads you should see it appear in the folder. 

 

Keep an eye on which one it is (if other people are uploading videos there at the same time) as it will have a fairly random file name. You cannot name files in the Photo Library on an iPad so it will appear as something like the one in this example IMG_0123.MOV. Immediately tap it once so it's highlighted, then tap the three dots at the end of the row and choose Rename.

 

 

Ask the students to rename it with an appropriate title that makes it really clear what is being taught in the video, then add their names and tap OK

The video should then appear in the folder with its new title, and be ready to watch (videos can sometimes take a minute or two to be processed before being available to watch).

 

 

Plenary

Ask a few people to share the feedback they received and their own thoughts on both that and their own video in general, what were they pleased with? What would they improve next time? You can also ask some students about the feedback they provided What evidence did you find to justify that comment? How could they clarify that explanation? What improvements could they make? 

Remind the students that they will now be able to access the videos for their revision at home or at school by signing into Google Drive or OneDrive on any device.

 

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