Response to "Did You Know" Style Videos

I actually am kind of tired of videos with text statistics, cutesy graphics, and dramatic music. However, I think there is an interesting learning opportunity if students are guided to think about the way messages are presented in multimedia formats. You can take pretty mundane facts and make them seem far more important than they actually are with some creative editing. Below is a quick video made with some random statistics I found on some websites (not verified at all!). This might be a fun activity for students to see how they can convey different messages simply by changing the way that information is