{"id":15022,"date":"2018-12-12T08:34:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T12:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=15022"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:25:50","slug":"cooking-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/cooking-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting started with cooking videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recipe for video-making proficiency<\/h1>\n

\""VideoThe ubiquity of the digital camera, whether mounted in smartphone, tablet or Chromebook, is getting everyone excited about making videos in the classroom. But it can be hard to translate the squealing, hand-flapping excitement of POWER into concrete, finished products.\u00a0But making videos gets\u00a0so<\/strong> much easier when you have two things: purpose, and structure.<\/p>\n

Enter the cooking video. Now, at this point in time, the humble cooking video is a type of 21st Century lingua franca. Blame Alton Brown’s long-running Good Eats<\/a>, or Tasty and their immaculate white-tiled backsplash<\/a>, or simply admit that you’re off watching Tiny Kitchens videos on twitter<\/a> when you should be paying attention in a staff meeting. Ahem.<\/p>\n

So let’s jump in and get those spoons stirring. The purpose! A short, manageable student-produced video project that showcases student learning and builds video skills.<\/p>\n

And the structure? A shot-by-shot approach. There is no need to re-invent the wheel, people. Steal from the best–<\/span> Take inspiration from the wealth of cooking videos already existing out there. Note down what shots they use and be reassured that you and your students can get this done in two class periods. We teamed up with 6th graders at Currier Memorial School, in Danby VT, to test what it’s like to give students:<\/p>\n