9 Podcasts for Teachers and Kids What! A podcast? I know what you’re thinking. Sounds complicated. Sounds expensive. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Language, Camera, Action! Motivating Young Learners with Video (by David Dodgson) Back in the sepia-tinged days of 2010 when I was still very much finding my way around blogs and Twitter, I was virtually introduced to Barbara and she kindly offered me the chance to do a guest post here on Teaching Village about how I used PowerPoint in class. 18 months on, we again get the chance to collaborate as part of the EVO 2012 Digital Storytelling for Young Learners team along with some other fantastic educators, namely Shelly Terrell, Özge Karaoğlu, Esra Girgin, Jennifer Verschoor, Michelle Worgan, and Sabrina De Vita (full details are included at the end of this post). As part of our EVO event, I will co-moderate a session about Video Stories with Young Learners with Özge. As a prelude to that, am delighted to have the chance to return to Teaching Village to share some of the ideas I’ve used in class, often with little more than a video-recording device and some editing software – and creative young students of course! The Strange Show! Life on Mitrax
LocoMotive Labs: Products - LocoMotive Labs Kid in Story Book Maker makes it easy and fun to create visual stories to support learning, social modeling, and early literacy with your child as the star character. How Kid in Story Book Maker WorksTo personalize the stories, LocoMotive Labs’ unique Locolens™ image detection technology allows you to superimpose your child or student onto the template backgrounds – similar to “green screening.” Just snap a portrait (or use one already saved in your library), and let Locolens™ pluck your “kid” out of the picture and place him or her in the story. 4 Steps of Magic 1. 1 2 3 4 Features - Pre-made story templates - Create custom stories with your own images, text, and narration - One-of-a-kind technology makes it simple to superimpose your portraits over the visual narrative - Share via email or Dropbox Templates Kid in Story’s templates come to life when you place your child or student’s picture on every page. Children with Special Needs Reviews
Rule of Thirds The Rule of Thirds is perhaps the most well known principle of photographic composition. The “Rule of Thirds” one of the first things that budding digital photographers learn about in classes on photography and rightly so as it is the basis for well balanced and interesting shots. I will say right up front however that rules are meant to be broken and ignoring this one doesn’t mean your images are necessarily unbalanced or uninteresting. However a wise person once told me that if you intend to break a rule you should always learn it first to make sure your breaking of it is all the more effective! What is the Rule of Thirds? The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both horizontally and vertically) so that you have 9 parts. As you’re taking an image you would have done this in your mind through your viewfinder or in the LCD display that you use to frame your shot. Another Rule of Thirds Example
Story Maker Futurelab - Resources Archive - Publications, reports & articles - Web articles - Machinima and education Flag for follow-up - use this tool to flag up items that you’d like to read later (use the customise page to view and manage these flagged items)Print - send a print-friendly version of this page to your default printerSend to friend - e-mail a link to this page to a friend September 2007 Diane Carr CSCYM, London Knowledge Lab, IOE, University of London During machinima production a computer game’s protagonists become actors, its dungeons or domestic interiors become virtual sets, and the player takes the role of director. Creating machinima can be as simple as logging into a game and recording the action as it unfolds in real time. As with computer games, teachers and practitioners are considering machinima’s relevance to education from a variety of perspectives. As this brief outline indicates, some machinima techniques call for advanced skills, while others are open to the complete beginner. Educators working with machinima weigh the advantages posed by different games. References
Little Bird Tales - Home Digital Video in the Classroom Students are exposed to basics in video project composition. Activities include learning how to build visually effective shots, how to use music to enhance the feel of the presentation, and how to create a movie project that is designed to keep a student’s attention in the context of teaching standards-based material. Review materials, get links from class, and view the syllabus. Email me with any questions. Assignment: YouTube Channel Create a channel (or homepage) for broadcasting on YouTube. Custom URLChannel Art (Image Header)Featured Video (Unsubscribed Trailer)Avatar/Profile PictureTwo educational playlists on your channel Additionally, submit the YouTube Channel form (found online at How to share a folder in Google Drive For your first assignment, you’ll need to upload 9 photos, and share them with me.
Creative Comic Interview with Bill Zimmerman of MakeBeliefsComix 19 Flares Twitter 15 Facebook 0 Google+ 3 LinkedIn 1 inShare1 19 Flares × It was a great pleasure to interview Bill Zimmerman for last week’s webinar on Creative Comic Collaboration For Fun Fluency development. Bill is the mind, heart and soul behind MakeBeliefsComix.com I’ve been exploring comics websites and creating all kinds of different comic lesson plans for the last few years. But why all this fascination with comics? Watch my presentation and study my slideshow to find out. Webinar Slideshow In the meantime, for every fascination there must be an initial inspiration. I really wanted to talk to Bill Zimmerman about the comic site that has inspired me so much, and I was thrilled when he agreed to do this interview. Let the interview begin: 1) Do you have a personal story behind the building of the MakeBeliefsComix website? My own love of comics and understanding of their value as a learning tool began when I was a child. Special announcements:
Making a Silent Movie (| Digital - teacher | Education in a technological world) During this half term, I've been busy working with our three lower school classes on a rather special project in their ICT lessons. It all began back in April when I blogged about an app I discovered in the app store that would allow a user to create an aged movie. My brain began to think just how I could incorporate this technology into our planned topic of 'Movie Making'. It seemed too good to be true - crowbarring a video creation app into a topic on movie making? How easy would that be! So, my plans began to take shape. However, I quickly threw all of that out of the window, because the BBC showed the first part of a series from Paul Merton all about the birth of Hollywood. Lesson One consisted of watching parts of the Paul Merton programme. In our second lesson we began to sketch out the ideas for the storyline. During the evolution of their work, some of these ideas were amended, or dropped, as they realised that it was either too hard to achieve, or too hard to film.
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10 Video Projects Every Teacher Should Try Making classroom movies has gotten much easier now that cell phones, tablets and other devices feature video capabilities that are high quality and simple to use. And happily, we’ve found that students love to use video—it’s a format that they understand and that sparks their creativity. Here are ten ideas to try in your classroom today. Make a Book Trailer: Challenge students to design a movie-style trailer that excites their classmates about a must-read novel or nonfiction book. Try Digital Storytelling: Digital storytelling is a great format for students to share more about their lives or to present about a person in history. Film a Thank You Note: If you need to thank a visitor to your class or an awesome parent volunteer, try filming rather than writing a thank you note. What’s the best video project you’ve ever done?