Alex made a difference in her community by helping others with the simple idea of a lemonade stand—we want your students to think about what they can do to make a difference in their community. Challenge your students to reflect on the statement: How Can I Make a Difference and then use digital tools to create a 45 second commercial video. We know 45 seconds isn’t long - - but it’s about the time to takes on an elevator and sometimes that’s all the time you have to convince someone! Each school is eligible to submit one commercial entry.
Make a Commercial. We realize that there are a lot of digital tools available to create a commercial! Your final submitted video must be saved as either QuickTime .MOV, Windows .AVI, or .MPG files— these are the most common formats and they work well within the YouTube system. We specifically recommend the MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format at 640x480 resolution with MP3 audio. Resizing your video to these specifications before uploading will help your clips look better on YouTube.
Upload Your Commercial by April 28th! After your commercial is produced, upload it to Google Docs (you’ll need a Google Account). Please name your file “SCHOOL NAME - ALEX LEMONADE VIDEO.” Once it’s uploaded, click on the file and then click “share.” Please share your video with mdknight@gmail.com. We will post all of the videos on MAGPI K20’s YouTube channel on April 29th. If you need help with this process, please email mknigh@magpi.net.
Rate the Commercials! After MAGPI has uploaded all of the commercials to MAGPI’s YouTube channel, we will send out the link (and post it on the blog), so you can share invite students, colleagues, friends and family to view and rate the commercials. You may even want to have your class view all of the commercials in class and rate them as a class! We’re asking everyone to rate the videos based on the question “How well does the video answer the question: how can I make a difference?” The commercial with the highest rating will be played during our wrap-up videoconference!
Need some inspiration? Take a look at the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation Video about Alex!
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