WeVideo is a highly robust online video editing tool that is free for up to 15 minutes of export time per month. Since WeVideo is web based students can start a project in school and continue at home, whatever platform they are using in either location. Additionally, students can collaborate on Video projects, allowing for more than one student (up to 5 on the free version) to participate in the editing process. Students with access to Google Apps (like here at Saucon) can link their WeVideo account to Google Drive and create shared project folders for organizing all their media and sharing with fellow students.
WeVideo is surprisingly full featured for an online service. According their site they support "All" file formats for video and images. Having spent countless hours fighting with video conversion software, this is definitely a plus. WeVideo also includes three different Editors: Storyboard, Timeline, and Full Featured. This is great for classroom settings because you can use the simple Storyboard editor for K-6 students and for quick projects, but for more advance projects and older students you can easily switch to allow for more editing options. WeVideo also has over 400 royalty-free music titles as well as graphics and effects. While basic accounts are free, WeVideo offer premium accounts for schools starting at $19.99 per year.
Digital storytelling is a great way to assess project based learning and provides a key link to the Common Core standards. With WeVideo teachers have one more great tool at their disposal.
