Students are having a great time creating and editing Anti-Bullying movies.
- Motivational/Inspiring video for someone experiencing bullying
- Anti-Bullying Campaign
- Characteristics/Personality traits of someone who stands up to bullying
- How you would end bullying in Your school
Editing and Special Effects fabulous! We got taping/drama part done super fast. Kids had oodles of fun editing - adding music, transitions, title, inserting videos, split screens. Just viewed near final products. Kids felt proud of themselves - professional looking and sounding.
Students need to go back and play with music volumes, professional credits.
BEWARE - GREAT ADVICE
Kids had "Peterborough" show up in their title. The 'locator" - which on so we can find our i-Pads, needs to be turned off for editing. There is a way of turning this off so it does not automatically show up on the screen. Go to Settings...privacy...location services...toggle off i'movie. This should solve the problem!
Obervations
Boys tend to be more focused on the technical piece. They needed pushing to get the dramatic/artistic pieces done. Girls tend to be more focused on the drama, and needed pushing to get the editing pieces done.
Still editing. Look for fascinating videos attached to my next blog.
Still loving "Explain Everything" as a quick way to check our thinking before a math summative. Catching the odd misconception! Great stuff! Kids are getting fast at creating and sharing slides.
Still having fun. iPads are becoming a more functioning tool and less a play toy!!!
Showing posts with label communicating math thinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communicating math thinking. Show all posts
Monday, 14 April 2014
Monday, 6 January 2014
Explain Everything
Many of my students have begun to use Explain Everything as a means of communicating their thinking in mathematics. It provides kids with the opportunity to record their thinking in a variety of ways (i.e. orally, visually, and in writing). It also lets students record and then listen back to their own explanation so that they can self-assess to determine if they have clearly articulated their thinking.
Strengths: Students find the app easy to use, they can use the "screen capture" function from other apps (such as "Geoboard" or "Protractor") and embed the pictures into their Explain Everything file, then annotate their work with arrows, captions and other 'bits' of information. Students can write directly onto the screen or use the keyboard option (this is important when you are working with students who lack fine motor control. When students can only write directly onto the screen, they end up using up the screen space very quickly, making it difficult to organize their work). Students can audio record their thinking at the end of the working time or while they work at solving the problem so that I can "listen in" to their thinking at my convenience. When it comes time to consolidate, there is solid documentation of what has been tried so that others can benefit from the problem-solving that has occurred.
Limitations: We haven't figured out how to edit the audio so that long pauses and unnecessary dialogue can be deleted. It would be helpful to have access to a shape creator and other math components on screen so that students could be very accurate without importing from other apps.
Strengths: Students find the app easy to use, they can use the "screen capture" function from other apps (such as "Geoboard" or "Protractor") and embed the pictures into their Explain Everything file, then annotate their work with arrows, captions and other 'bits' of information. Students can write directly onto the screen or use the keyboard option (this is important when you are working with students who lack fine motor control. When students can only write directly onto the screen, they end up using up the screen space very quickly, making it difficult to organize their work). Students can audio record their thinking at the end of the working time or while they work at solving the problem so that I can "listen in" to their thinking at my convenience. When it comes time to consolidate, there is solid documentation of what has been tried so that others can benefit from the problem-solving that has occurred.
Limitations: We haven't figured out how to edit the audio so that long pauses and unnecessary dialogue can be deleted. It would be helpful to have access to a shape creator and other math components on screen so that students could be very accurate without importing from other apps.
Students are able to share their work with me via Google drive as an MP4 file.
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