A new Video Club is being offered for third grade students at Middle Gate Elementary School this school year, and students in it are learning the basics of using the iMovie program on iPads.

Library/media specialist Suzanne Hurley oversees the club. She began offering the club to third graders this year due to the perfect timing with the third grade recess period. Roughly 26 students opted to spend one recess period a week attending the club. She divided the group of students in two, so half of the students will attend club meetings in the second half of the school year.

So far, students in the first half of the club have learned how to frame photos and footage and how to record movies. They have also learned how to edit photos and footage into a trailer for a “film,” though most do not have a plot.

“They are having a lot of fun,” said Ms Hurley on January 7.

Student Aria Curi said she likes the club because she finds it fun to interview people and make movies. Ben Atherton, a fellow third grader, said using iMovie is “fun.”

As part of the club’s meeting on January 7, Ms Hurley showed student Iris Brown’s completed video trailer. All of the students watched before separating to work on their own projects.

Ms Hurley said editing the videos is helping the students learn how to do “something over and over again.”