Birds on a Wire - http://birdsonawire.wikispaces.com
Intro -
Elementary age - making videos - teacher or student created videos
Teachers make a fun video to teach a specific skill - chn watch then share what they have learnt with a video or... they made - on a blog so they can learn and share again at home
Digital kids and the way they become connected to content - more involved - flipped
Means that digital recording can be incorporated into the curriculum not an extra
Project based learning
Watch & learn from these videos 24/7
Teacher made video tutorials:
9 most difficult comprehension strategies - chn could watch it over & over again
Making Predictions in Reading - chn watch, read then have an opportunity to respond to the question - "What do you think will happen next?"
What is Inference - Humpty Dumpty - then chn make own video to show their understanding & learning
How to make a Keynote - Apple or Power Point - make slides - do voice overs - save it as a movie on your desktop then upload to youtube - Youtube channel needed
Apps to make videos to youtube to show learning:
Blabber - "One Lucky Penguin" - story
Puppet pals - book review - "Strega Nona" - made a script etc
Green Screen - "The Time Machine App" - live action video - chn place themelves in front of a picture background
Keynote/PowerPoint
Animoto - advert, book trailer
Voki - "Conferring with an Avatar" - editing tool - use a voki (instead of chn peer editing their work)
Blabber - writing video - "If you take a mouse to school" - Format Factory to upload to blog - movie
TagWhat - digital story making
Free Apps for iPads
Photocard - use Photo gallery - Bill Atkins - nature photos - link to Google maps
Splash math
Stickman
Bluster
123D Sculpt
iDiary
Puzzle from Discovery Channel - making puzzles from a video - interactive puzzles
Cinepuzzle
Poll Everywhere -online poll - favourite app today
Comic Life in the classroom workshop - comicliferocks - wikispaces.com/home
Comic Life is a fun application that can be incorporated into all curriculum areas
- edtech experts
- lots of resources & ideas on website
- give explicit instructions to chn for tasks - make templates for them to use to begin with
Jennie