Sultan Qaboos UniversityCollege of Education

Instructional & LearningTechnologies Department

Report About:

Windows Movie Maker

Done By:Asma Al-Kalbani 82934Nawal Al-Ghafri 82932

To:D. Alaa Sadik.

In this report we will take about Windows Movie Maker which is a fun and easy to use video editing program. It was created to achieve many objectives for example: it allows

you to easily create new movies, edit already made movies, enhance creativity, capture, edit, and re-encode media content into one video, can bring together video, audio, and other multimedia content, then arrange and edit the content to create a finished movie and save movies on a hard disk or CD, send it in an e-mail, or send it to a video hosting provider on the web.

Target Learner: Participants should already : be competent in using the mouse. Also, anyone can use this software: students, teachers, staff.

Teachers' Role:Teachers in this software can:• Define the objectives.• Guide the learners through the program.• Provide helps to the learners if need.• Manage the class and present information in funny way.

Students' Role:Student can:• Add still picture, movie clips,  sounds,

music and narration.• Add titles and rolling credits to give a professional look to the movie.• Edit already mad movie. • Add different animations.• Add transition.• Capture video.• Import pictures.• Import audio or music.• Save the movie to the computer or to CD, send it in e-mail, send it to the web or

DV camera.• Play the movie.

Features:This Software has many features. First, the pedagogical features like;• Learners can use this software to present their presentations.• Make activities.• Help introduce subjects in a new effective way. • Enhance understanding.• Gain students’ attention.

Second, the technical features like;• Provide help menu and tutorials to use the program.• Provide procedural help (rollover).

• Provide exit button and safety nets to end the program.• Provide save option.• Controllable pace, including options for stop/pause/exit the video.• Free download.

What is amazing in this software that it is easy to use and effective and there is no concern in it.

How we use it to enhance learning:We can use all the features in this software like; Images, videos, transitions, effects, music and audio to make effective subject matter movies that gain students’ attention , enhance student’ understanding , easy to encode information in the LTM and make most of students’ senses work (see, hear, interact).