iMovie and Digital Images

The Productivity Tools Project is due for all T/Th classes. Please turn in all portions of the project at the beginning of class.
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9:30 / 11:00 classes -- iMovie Project

Public service announcements have been around forever. It is incredible what an impact 30 seconds can have -- think about Smokey the Bear and the Crash Test Dummies. Using video in education has been around for a long time, but it is just in recent years that it has become simple for classroom teachers and children to create and edit their own educational videos. The Apple Learning Interchange gives multiple examples of using educational video for teaching content standards.

You'll want to review the project guidelines for this project. We will use iMovie for editing. iMovie HD is the software available in the iLife suite on Macintosh computers. PCs have a similar software called Movie Maker 2.0 -- but it is not as easy to use in its existing version. Today you'll learn the ins and outs of the software. We will edit video during the next 3 class meetings.

For Thursday's class:
1. Bring your tape of no more than 8 minutes of raw footage for your video.
2. Bring any music that you want to use as background on your video.

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12:30 / 2:00 classes - Digital Images

Over the past few days you have utilized a number of technologies on the computer. In each of those programs you probably worked with images and animations (clip art). You either inserted clip art from the library within the application or navigated to the Internet to gather clip art. Fortunately with the advent of digital cameras (and scanners) we are able to insert any number of various images into computer applications.

Today we are going to spend some time working with digital images. Why use a digital camera in the first place? This page lists some advantages and disadvantages.

Once you make the decision to use digital cameras in your classroom, what is the best way to proceed? There are a number of resources you can take a look at to see how others have used them.

• Students with special needs
• ESOL students
• Science
• Math
• Writing

This page offers a compilation of various lessons across grade levels and subject areas.

The Apple Learning Interchange offers an abundance of lessons and ideas on using digital images. From the home page use the key word iPhoto in the search box. From there you should have several pages of lessons and ideas to look through. Here are 3 different ones for you to take a look at:

• Past and Present
  Social Studies, grade 9-12
• Fabulous Fairy Tales
  Language Arts, grade 4-6
• Mystery Numbers in Everyday Life
  Math, grade K-3

Once you have a digital image there are a number of ways you can manipulate them. Office applications have various editing tools we will use. However, there are several other programs out there: Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Digital Image Suite 10, Picasa, and iPhoto are just a few.

Today you will spend some time locating digital images to use in teaching. The images you find should relate to the content area you have chosen to work with for the semester.

Download the digital images template. Use the template to create a lesson idea using digital images. For example, you may have an image of a house being built. That image may serve as a story starter for your students. A math teacher may insert several pictures of buildings with odd shapes. The purpose of that lesson could be for the students to identify whether the angles and the buildings are acute, obtuse, or right angles.

Use the images you found today to complete your assignment. The Digital Images assignment is due Tuesday, September 20 at the beginning of class -- you should bring a printed copy of the completed template.

For Thursday:
1. Begin capturing video for your iMovie project.
2. Work on the Digital Images assignment - due Tuesday, September 20 at the beginning of class.