My FSF 1P class (grade 9 applied French) is working to create "ME" presentations where they introduce themselves (family, friends, hobbies etc.) to the class orally and through some creative medium (poster, powerpoint, webpage, movie etc.) Lacking exposure to technology, most of my students were opting to create posters or powerpoints, even after I excitedly showed exemplars of previous students who create film versions of the projects. (I was so sure they would want to try filming after seeing the exemplars, but sadly, they didn't.) So, they started working on their projects. I decided to try harder. I pulled aside a couple of students and told them that I just wanted to show them how i-movie worked in case they wanted to change their minds about their medium and try something new. I called on these two girls in particular because they appeared very bored and annoyed at having to do this task. After the three of us snapped a few pictures and filmed a few clips around the room, I proceeded to show them how to use that footage in i-movie and to add text, music, sound effects etc. into their film. Once they saw how fun and easy it was and how it produced quality product, the two girls shrieked in delight, grabbed the i-pad out of my hands and started to create film versions of their projects. They went from being bored to quite engaged! Not only that, but their enthusiasm was so contagious that it caused other students to approach me for a tutorial on i-movie and on educreations so that they could re-think their projects. When I asked the students what had prevented them from exploring the film option in the first place they said that when they saw the professional quality of the exemplars I showed, they figured it would be too hard and that only expert tech-types could create something like that, not amateurs. They were thrilled that the technology was so easy to use. What a beautiful sight to see grade 9 applied French students get SO excited about an assignment! :)
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Tuesday, 26 November 2013
education + creation = EDUCREATIONS!
Hello All
Nice to read about the various uses and ideas surrounding our new tech! :)
For the past few weeks I have had my students using the i-pads in a variety of ways. Below is a list of activities they have been doing collaboratively or individually with the assistance of i-pads.
1) Using the Educreations app, students have made posters that are interactive. Upon designing a poster that has traditional images and text, they have also added music, their own narration and extra drawings or images that appear throughout the recording of their poster "show". This activity was very successful. Students were engaged, had fun, were able to take their creativity to the next level and became quite proficient with it, very quickly. They then shared their posters in various ways-- with a partner, in a carousel seating and in front of the whole class.
2) Using the Videolicious app, students created 1 min. films (with images, film clips, background music and voice over) of a description of a character from the novel we were reading or of an advertisement for a product (media study).
3) Currently, as a course culminating activity in French, students are creating their own short films. They are collaborating and working on their scripts at school and from home using Google Drive and are using the i-movie app to film and edit their work. I am still learning how to use this app in order to train them through this. They are SO EXCITED about the real time nature of Google drive and are thrilled to create movies as a final task.
4) Currently, another class has written children's short stories (for thier grade 1 reading buddies) and would like to create digital, interactive versions of their texts. Using the Educreations app or the Book Creator app, they will record images of their books and of their voices reading the books, page by page. This will provide an excellent resource for the grade 1 buddies to have digital story books that they can read, listen to, and follow along.
It's been a great start and I am excited to learn more and implement more ideas!
Cheers!
Rebeka
Nice to read about the various uses and ideas surrounding our new tech! :)
For the past few weeks I have had my students using the i-pads in a variety of ways. Below is a list of activities they have been doing collaboratively or individually with the assistance of i-pads.
1) Using the Educreations app, students have made posters that are interactive. Upon designing a poster that has traditional images and text, they have also added music, their own narration and extra drawings or images that appear throughout the recording of their poster "show". This activity was very successful. Students were engaged, had fun, were able to take their creativity to the next level and became quite proficient with it, very quickly. They then shared their posters in various ways-- with a partner, in a carousel seating and in front of the whole class.
2) Using the Videolicious app, students created 1 min. films (with images, film clips, background music and voice over) of a description of a character from the novel we were reading or of an advertisement for a product (media study).
3) Currently, as a course culminating activity in French, students are creating their own short films. They are collaborating and working on their scripts at school and from home using Google Drive and are using the i-movie app to film and edit their work. I am still learning how to use this app in order to train them through this. They are SO EXCITED about the real time nature of Google drive and are thrilled to create movies as a final task.
4) Currently, another class has written children's short stories (for thier grade 1 reading buddies) and would like to create digital, interactive versions of their texts. Using the Educreations app or the Book Creator app, they will record images of their books and of their voices reading the books, page by page. This will provide an excellent resource for the grade 1 buddies to have digital story books that they can read, listen to, and follow along.
It's been a great start and I am excited to learn more and implement more ideas!
Cheers!
Rebeka
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