If you have never made a social skills video before do not be intimidated. Today was my first time ever creating a social skills video and I was surprised by how easy it was. There are a few simple steps you need to take.
1. Think about the background of your student, their needs, strengths and the appropriate behaviours you want to model/reinforce.
2. You need to think about which situation you want to model the appropriate behaviours in. Ex. How to behave during school assemblies.
3. Break the task into small steps and write a simple script.
4. Act out each of the steps to complete the task, modeling the appropriate behaviours.
5. Text and voiceover can be added very easily to the video.
To create our social skills video we used a video camera, although you can use iPod Nanos and they are very easy to use. We did all of our editing in Windows Movie Maker. At first we had some difficulties with Movie Maker, but it did get a lot easier once we figured out how to edit our clips. If you have extra time it is easy to alter the timeframe of your clips, the color of your text, your transitions and the placement of your titles. My group had a lot of fun making our social skills video. The best part about social skills videos is that they have been proven to help reduce anxiety and improve the behaviour of students with autism in a given context.
I have never made a video social story or have had to upload it from one device to another and was quite daunted by this when we were first told this was an assignment. However, I agree with you Jill, this was very easy to do. The program is very user friendly and I now feel as if I am a director in the making. I will definitely not be deterred to use this type of technolgy in my school for students! Glad we had this opportunity.
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