HW 7-3 Creative Potential of Video in Classrooms

I think that Creative Videos have a lot of potential in classrooms, because of the range of use that teens and adults can implement it into their art practice. Just as the article with Kylie Peepler's "The New Digital Arts: Forms, Tools, and Practices, the author mentions that with smartphones, on the rise, participation of instant posting to media and sharing sites, enables more teen users to post on sites such as Youtube, Instagram, and Facebook, or even snapchat. Teens are video tapping themselves more to show their artwork, beauty tips, and daily lives though sharing videos in the social networking sites. With Youtube and Vimeo, it allows teens or even pre-adolescents to use other softwares such as Final Cut pro, Photoshop, iStopMotion, and other softwares to polish their creative videos in order to be shared in their channels for Youtube and Vimeo.

Teens love to use social media, and they love to express themselves whether it is though helping people by sharing their daily struggles of being an adolescent, because boy do we know how hard that is, or by sharing make-up tips, or just making funny videos, teens are going to be into it. In the future or even now, for classroom activities, teens are using videos as a platform for building a foundation for a unique channel that brings something new to the table for the world to see through media. It also brings communities together to spread awareness about the arts, social/political issues, history, literature, and many more. Teens are using iStopmotion from what I have seen thought observations that we as MA Intial Certification majors are required to do for our course, FieldObservations. IStopmotion opens so many doors for students to tell stories, and just to simply explore the media presented to them at hand. Final Cut also gives them an opportunity to be creative through visual effects, or using it as a music video platform, to polish movies, making a video about interviews, or maybe even a DIY or a tutorial video.