Advertising the Colonies with Green Screen, Pic Collage, and iMovie

Our students have been so excited to try our new green screen. Mr. Wegner's fifth grade Social Studies classes were the first large group to test it out during their American colonies unit. After learning more about the 13 original colonies, students worked in groups to learn more about one particular colony. Their task was to create a video advertisement persuading others to move to their colony.  By app smashing with Green Screen by Do Ink, Pic Collage, and iMovie, students were excited to take on the role of American colonists and news reporters to create an original video advertisement. View their results below. To which colony would you like to move?
       

We are digital citizens!

I cannot believe that the end of the first quarter is almost here!  Students in Integrated Technology have spent the quarter learning about digital citizenship.  Lessons have included everything from Internet safety to cyberbullying to website evaluation.  As a culminating activity, students designed their own project to showcase what they have learned about digital citizenship.  Students used a variety of tools to share their knowledge including Go Animate to create animated videos, Google Sites to create websites, Bitstrips to create online comics, Adobe Voice to create a digital story, and iMovie to edit their own live videos.  Here is a sampling of products from our new digital citizenship experts.

Ally and Hayley's website

 

 

Booktrailers using iMovie

Eighth graders in Mrs. Koshollek's Language Arts class have just completed reading utopian/dystopian novels of their choice following their study of The Giver by Lois Lowry. To celebrate and share what they have read, they created booktrailers using iMovie. Students had the choice to use the movie option or the trailer option. They used a mix of video and photos as well. Check out a sampling of some of their creativity.

 
 
 

Retelling Scary Stories with iMovie

Sixth graders in Mrs. Dachelet's READ 180 class just wrapped up a unit reading scary stories.  To share one story that they read, students created trailers using iMovie.  Each group read one particular story of its choice and then mapped out the main events of the story.  Students brainstormed words and phrases that revealed the important plot elements, but did not give too much of the story away.  Then, they used iMovie's trailer templates to create the videos featured below.  Play their story trailers to find out more about what they have been reading.  Are you interested in reading these stories yourself?  Come into the library and we can help you find them.