Monday, March 17, 2008

All the way to 5! Video

All the Way to 5! A counting movie
by Heidi Thibodeau (AKA Heidi Beezley)

Here's a video made for my Edtec 572 class at SDSU. It is meant to teach children age 18 months and older, in particular Orion, my son, how to count to five.

11 comments:

Ken Callaway said...

Hey, Heidi, I thought you didn't like listening to your own voice! You must have done that a great deal to do this video. Superb job as usual. A great way to make multiple use of a day in Balboa Park as well. Orion is fortunate; he not only has a mother who will create interesting instructional videos as he grows, but he even has five Thomas the Tank Engines! What a lucky kid!

Angie Wilson said...

Heidi - This is too cute. I love it! I bet you had a blast making it. Nice job. What a great mom you are!

mburnworth said...

Heidi
Great job. I loved the pictures. I can totally see this as a project for kindergarten students.
Misty

martyjay75 said...

Heidi,

Your video is great. Definitely worthy of being featured on Sesame Street. My twin niece and nephew loved it and they can't even speak yet, let alone count. But you were able to gain and hold their attention.....at least for a while. That's quite an accomplishment being that they're only 7 months old.

Mrs. Topmiller said...

Heidi,
You did such a nice job with your video! The tone was very soft and kid friendly throughout, and the pictures of your son were too cute:)
Excellent work!

Mrs. Lori C. said...

I am so impressed by this Heidi! Your son has a great mommy, and he will cherish your video forever. I love the photos, and the attention to detail (your son is a charmer!) You really outdid yourself on this one. I could see this on Sesame Street. You should submit it! What program did you use to do this?

Sincerely impressed!

Lori C.

Greg Johnson said...

Heidi, this video reminded me of how fun counting to 5 can actually be! Thanks for that!

1. G
2. r
3. e
4. g
5. J

Miss G. said...

Absolutely adorable!!

Craig Wilsie said...

Nice job -- you could work for Sesame Street! How did you put the numbers on your images? Photoshop? Well done!

teach75 said...

Nice video. I give it 5 stars. I agree that this video could be used on Sesame Street. Excellent!

Heidi Beezley said...

Thanks for all of the great feedback! Maybe I worked for Sesame Street in my former life. I loved making a video for my son, and it just seemed to come together better than I had expected.

In answer to Craig's question about the numbers on the images - I wish I could do that in Photoshop! What I did instead was probably kind of lame. I put the pictures into PowerPoint slides and then used the drawing tools to put numbers on them and then saved the PowerPoint slides as images. Probably Photoshop would have been easier and made more sense.