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.
2 comments:
I really like the green screen idea and think that the kids could be really creative in it's use. It seems like it would be a great tool for teaching and having the kids be creative. I would love to see how it works. The second video really showcased the talent of the kids and the music technology. I know smartmusic and we use it here at our school. I think it is a great program to use in any music program.
This is really a creative way to teach and assess music using technology!
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