Exercise 4: Draft Video Script

Cuong Q. Lam

University of Houston

Dr. Chad Jones

CUIN 6320

Commentary from Dr. Jones:

Nice job on this assignment - a well researched and developed script. Your task will be to make sure that
you can make this well thought out text engaging with your voice. Research material can feel sterile, so
you will need to make sure your voice inflection helps bring your message alive and engages your
audience. One question I have for you is from your introduction. You start off discussing technology, but
your script is more about classroom design and systems management. Where does the technology
introduction fit in? I would consider looping back to that idea somehow in your script or consider removing
that piece. Over the next week or two, be thinking about what images you can use for this project. You list
one image for each paragraph, but you will need MULTIPLE for each paragraph. It will take you 15-20
seconds or more to reach each of those and that's a long time to sit on a single image. Your ideas are
specific, yet broad, so you can easily find the images you need, but I would start thinking through what
they could be right now.
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Classroom Environment & Student Engagement

Cue Music – https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/once-again

Voice Over in Back Ground

Cue – Cue Multiple pictures with 2-3 sec intervals in between with teachers in a classroom teaching
student

Script: “Today, teachers are faced with the challenging task of cultivating a classroom environment that

engaging, supportive, and encourages students to self-learn. In this video we will answer the question:

Can the classroom environment be organized in a specific manner that will encourage student

engagement? “

Voice Over in Background

Cue- Pictures of multiple pictures of traditional classroom with Bare walls and desk

Script: “Traditionally speaking the classroom of my past was bare, white, wall room with rows of seating

facing a white board with a teacher’s desk in a corner. This organization of a class never made me feel

compelled to come to the class and also made me feel that the class didn’t have that much to offer. This

blank canvas of sorts can be physically altered to represent a new school of thought offered in “Cultivating

Classroom Spaces as Homes for Learning. Middle Grades Review” which showed that a classroom once

renovated created an environment that helped prompt learning in students. “(2017)

Voice Over in Background

(Cue multiple Pictures of Beautiful Classroom and where I talk about seating, lighting, decorating the
walls)

Script: “One of the main characteristics from the study showed that by physically altering the room

such as rearranging seating, adjusting lighting, decorating walls with student work, utilizing candles for

aromas, and providing auditory stimulation in the form of background music provided an improved

classroom environment that set itself apart from other classroom counterparts. Ultimately the idea was
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to make the classroom a home. The opinions shown by students in the study showed a preference over

the renovated room over other classrooms.”(2017)

Voice Over in Background

Cue Multiple Pictures of Students in Beautiful Classroom engaged in conversation with teachers

Script: “The next characteristic that was given to students was the freedom of choice inside a classroom.

This was done so by giving them a variety of seating options inside a classroom which included chairs,

bean bags, stools, or even ability to stand, and the students own choosing of where to sit. The goal of

choice was to allow students the pre-emptive training to make personal decision by themselves which

allows them to learn the skill of decision making and ultimately making life’s greatest choices.”(2017)

Voice Over in Background

Cue Multiple Pictures of Classroom Teachers and Students working Together

Script: “The last characteristic given in the study was classroom management which basically allowed

students to provide input on the policies and procedures inside the classroom in conjunction with the

teacher, and having open communication with other students during non-instruction times. Doing this

further adds to the environment of a classroom that ultimately helps students understand that they are

important contributors inside the classroom.”(2017)

Voice Over in Background

Cue Pictures of a Bright Future Classroom

Script: “Overall the study concluded that the steps taken to improve a classroom resulted in one that

better created for a dynamic learning environment which empowered students to make contributions to

the classroom in the form of their work and decisions resulting in a robust learning environment.” (2017)

End Music Innovative Music

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APA Reference

Flynn, L., & Colby, S. R. (2017). Cultivating Classroom Spaces as Homes for Learning. Middle Grades

Review, 3(3). Retrieved from:

http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.uh.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ116562

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