Customize Images, Sounds & Settings - Sharendipity

This was a very easy game to create, although I cannot figure out how to get my last match to stay put. "Quizlet" does not want to stay on the bottom with "Understanding". Once I created my game, I could not find a way to go back to edit it. That is one feature I wish I could find! Our district pays for subscriptions to Quia, which is also a site that creates different games that my students greatly enjoy. Here is my site, although you cannot see any games I have created on this page, it is a good website for educators. Quia

Gaming in education is a way to help students learn in an enjoyable way. Our students have grown up with video games and using them for educational purposes is "fun". A game, or a challenge, or a puzzle are all ways to engage students in learning and a game such as this is no exception. Whether it is used for review or learning new material, it is a good tool for the classroom.

Creation Activity 5(ED635): Video and Podcasting - iMovie

The movie making tools are certainly at the highest level of Bloom's Taxonomy because students create with these tools.  The first video was made with my students and I trying to figure out how to use a green screen, but after we mastered using a green screen, the students created fantastic videos, placing themselves in a news room, Australia, even the moon.  It was creative and fun.  The second video was filmed entirely by students who knew what we were looking for.  They gave me the camera and we edited,  added the music in the background, and our video was complete.  In the process, the students learned how to do all the editing.  A more detailed explanation is below for each video.

This is a first run on using a green screen in iMovie!  At the PETE&C Discovery Pre-Conference last year I won a green screen and we have had a great deal of fun with it.  In this video, you can see that I took a picture of our Math team, then I tried to add the Bucknell logo behind us because we won "Best of State" at a competition held at Bucknell!  As you can see, one of our students (top right) was wearing a shirt that was too close to the green in our green screen!  That is a hazard to watch for.  Some teachers have used an orange screen because no one usually wears orange, except at Weatherly because our school colors are orange and black.  We then took the image of our team and added someone waving.  Hope you enjoy this "first look", we have now gotten this down and if you would like any help with green screen, let me know or I could bring the green screen to our next class to show you how it works, it is portable.  

                        

 

The second iMovie was created for the CFF map of 1-11-11 to showcase technology at Weatherly.