I found the new version of windows movie maker to be less easy to use than the older verion on windows XP. There was no option to see the movie in a time mode which made it impossible to stretch clips out and increase their duration. With the proper training and materials students could easily be given assignments where instead of a report or project the end product could be a movie. I invision such an assignment being like a google docs assignment where each student or student group would be given a section of a chapter on which to produce a movie clip. Each clip could then be watched in sequence to create a complete overview of the chapter.

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