Play Holiday Traditions by Vicki Clarke - Games on TinyTap 1. By Vicki Clarke,DTAinc & DTA Schools, Holiday Traditions for Families2. During this holiday season, we have many traditions. Let's take a look at some you might know! Lights, Camera . . . Engagement! Three Great Tools for Classroom Video How many times have you thought to yourself, "In what way can I spice up this unit and make it student-centered?" One great way is to let your students be creative using video. With all the tools and technology available, making videos is easier than ever for you and your students. Recently at the annual National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Becky Ellis, Greg Kulowiec and I presented three different ways you can use video with your students in the classroom. Below is the slide show we used to introduce these tools: There are plenty of ideas and resources available through the links we shared. 1. Step A: Sign Up Animoto is an easy-to-use website where you and your students can create 30-second videos for free. Step B: Try It Yourself, Then Show Your Students The great thing about Animoto is that all you have to do is follow the easy steps they provide. Step C: Share with Your Classes Students really enjoyed watching and presenting their videos. 2. Shoot the video. Step A
4 Good Digital Storytelling Apps for Android November 21, 2015 Digital storytelling is a great way to engage students in a wide range of multimodal learning activities where they get to practice key literacy skills. It is also an effective method in helping students express their own narratives in both written and verbal media. In today’s post we are introducing you to some good digital storytelling apps to use on Android-operated devices. For those of you using iPad, check out this resource instead. 1-Tellagami “A Gami can be an exciting tweet or status update. Story Dice is a creative tool to prompt ideas for plot, character, and setting. 3- WeVideo 'The WeVideo Video Editor helps you capture memories and moments wherever they happen, and turn them into amazing videos to share with others, across your favorite social networks.' 4- Animoto Turn your camera roll into beautiful, pro-quality videos.
untitled A Perfect Match: PBS and Student Journalism Few academic courses cater to teaching 21st-century skills better than journalism. In the student newsroom, teens engage in reporting, writing, editing, video production, and live broadcasting. I speak from experience. For all of those reasons, I can’t overstate my support of the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab, which “connects high school students to local PBS stations and news professionals in their community to produce original, student-generated video reports.” Last week at SXSWedu, I heard Managing Editor Leah Clapman, who directs the Lab, speak about what she and PBS are doing to help students produce high-quality journalism—and in so doing, also learn about problem solving, information gathering, information synthesizing, and teamwork, essential skills no matter what profession students ultimately pursue. Curious to learn more about the program, I reached out to Clapman. “Our goal is really not to encourage students to become broadcast journalists, per se,” she says.
FriendStrip 120 Christmas Trivia Questions & Answers, Games + Carols It is time for Christmas and everything associated with the holiday – gift shopping, great food, and family gatherings. Make your festivities more fun with a game of Christmas trivia questions and answers or use our trivia lists for a Christmas trivia quiz. You can also become a Christmas expert with our selection of Christmas trivia. Start at the beginning of the article or choose a section covering your favorite Christmas trivia. We have also included some guidelines for using Christmas trivia games. You may also like Christmas Party Games and Icebreakers for Adults Christmas Trivia Questions Use our Trivia Questions and Answers to play a trivia game. Christmas Movies and Books Who was the star of the Christmas movie Jingle All the Way? Christmas Foods Which milk-based beverage is available around the Christmas holidays and comes in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions? Christmas Traditions When was the first Christmas card sent? Christmas Trivia Questions and Answers Christmas Carols
Video Projects | Richard Byrne Presents Click here for five video projects that you can try today. 1. Create a short video using Animoto, YouTube slideshow, or 30hands iPad app. This video could be used to introduce a new topic, create a book trailer, or introduce yourself to the class. 2. 3. 4. *Planning the student video project. -How much time can you allot to this project? *Assessing the student video project: pre-production. *Assessing the student video project: post-production. Animoto makes it possible to quickly create a video using still images, music, and text. WeVideo is a collaborative online video creation tool. Creaza Education (www.creazaeducation.com)—not to be confused with a similar commercial product called Creaza—is a suite of tools that I started using this summer. Loopster is a free video editing tool that is more complex than Animoto, but not as full featured as WeVideo or Creaza Education. Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-stylevideos online.
Fastest Way to Create Comic Strips and Cartoons - Toondoo Christmas Quiz 2017 It’s early December and for the past three years, I have produced a Christmas quiz template that can be used for the holiday season. This year is no different. What’s new Left: The Christmas Quiz 2016. Right: The Christmas Quiz 2017. Last year, I released a present themed version of the Christmas quiz. However, the game also incorporates icons and design elements from previous versions and other PowerPoint games. I didn’t want students to lose any points. If students click on an image of a Santa and answer the question correctly, they are given the points associated with the gift. A star is worth 3 points, a gold present is worth 2 points and a red present is worth 1 point. Like Mystery Squares, the students don’t know where the higher value icons are, so this means that the higher-level or more confident students won’t dominate the game. Download the Christmas Quiz 2017 PowerPoint template Top-left: The title slide. The type of questions used is determined by the teacher. Moving Icons
Cinema Paradiso: How to create a winning short video | : the readiness is all One of the biggest questions I got last summer wasn’t, “How was the Google Teacher Academy?” but rather “How did you make your Google Teacher Academy video?” If you want to be accepted to the Google Teacher Academy, The Apple Distinguished Educator Program or the DEN Summer Institute you will need to create a short memorable video. Perhaps you are a student looking to create a video for a contest or scholarship. Now I know what you are thinking. best watched in HD Now I’m not going to tell you how great that video is, I’ll let Science Teacher- Misty White from Texas tell you. “I could not have done any of this without a little inspiration and encouragement. Wow. So I’m going to share with you how I made it, and some personal advice. For weeks Chris Long and JR Ginex-Orinion (a past graduate of GTA-NY) asked me to apply to the 2013 GTA. “just go for it, we’ll figure it out.” So in the middle of the last two weeks of school I had one week to plan, record, and edit a video. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Storygami's Building a Tool to Add Context to Web Video Each week we’re profiling one company that has been selected for Boost – our early-stage startup growth program. Catch up with these companies in person at The Next Web Conference Europe on April 23 & 24. Video is great for telling stories, but it can’t always tell the whole story. Storygami is on a mission to change that. You could use Storygami to add background to a news bulletin, share related articles in documentaries, show product close-ups in a video demo or insert calls to action in branded content. Brands like Virgin Media, Al Jazeera, Unilever and Thomson Reuters are already using the tool. We chatted with Storygami CEO Heidi Lindvall to find out more about the company and how it plans to revolutionize video on the Web. Tell us what you do in two sentences. Storygami makes online video smarter by letting anyone embed related content into their videos. How did the company get started? Myself and my co-founder Guy Gunaratne ran a video content company called Codoc together.