Slam

Here are some morning briefing, Slam Session goodies from Tamaki staff members...

Thanks to the contributors of this wiki style goodness..

Web Of Trust - Mrs Dunn

offers free tools for safe search and web browsing

WOT - Martin Luther King

Newsela

differentiated reading resource

1. Select a resource

2. Choose a reading level on the right

Quizizz-

You can either create your own or join a game

Stop Start Animation - Miss Wells

This week at the MDTA training session we learned how to make stop-start animations. They were so much fun that we all voluntarily gave up our lunch breaks to keep working on them! I imagine students would be equally engaged by making these cool creations...

HERE'S HOW YOU MAKE THEM FROM WOE (OH GOSH IT SEEMS LIKE SO MUCH WORK) TO GO (STEP BACK AND WATCH THE MAGIC HAPPEN)!

I suggest students have a story-boarding session where they write a script to keep them on track during the photography. That way their story will have direction and include the content you want to review.

Find a well lit wall of the room and set up a backdrop and a foreground. Blu-tak them down to make sure they don't shift too much.

I used a scene from a calendar, but a plain sheet of A3 works just as well. If you were going to regularly make animations you might consider having a cardboard set constantly at the ready, with a couple of props like trees... Students could also find a wallpaper online and print it, or draw one themselves.

Set up the camera. Try to keep it as steady and still as possible.

I used an old digital camera with a flat base and blu-tak'd the camera in place as well. A tripod for a phone can work. Students can use their netbooks by pulling a chair up to the desk and adding a booster (old phone books work well) so the camera in their netbook is at the right height.

Blu-tak the character's feet, make them do tiny movements, take a LOT of photos.

Blu-taking the characters feet makes sure they don't move until you want them to. Have one student moving the characters and telling another student when to take photos. The student taking the photos can position themselves under the desk, ready to click away.

What happens if I bump the camera out of position or my character falls over?

Change camera angles. That way you won't notice the big jump in continuity and it keeps the footage interesting. Think about changing camera angles anyway if it adds to the story; high angles, low angles, over-the-shoulder shots, close ups...

Once you have taken all the photos to tell your story, import them to your device.

Open iPhoto. You can find this by searching in the top right of your Mac

Import the photos into iPhoto

Open iMovie. There are now some things you need to do before you can drag your photos in from iPhoto.

Create a new project and change the properties.

If you just drag and drop the photos from iPhoto, each photo will get it's own transition. This will ruin your animation. To avoid this you need to create a new project.

Right click on the project and select 'Project Properties...'

Change the Initial Photo Placement from Ken Burns (the annoying transitions) to Fit in Frame.

Open your New Project and drag in your photos. If you watch your animation now you will notice it is quite slow, and you will probably want to speed it up...

Click on one of the photos and Command+Shift+A to select them all. Hover your mouse over one of the photos and you will notice a little cog pop up with a number just above it. Click on the cog and this box will open.

Select 'Clip Adjustments' and change the 'Duration.' I wanted my photos to flick over fairly quickly, so I selected 0.2s.

If you want some sections of your animation to flick over more slowly, select only the pictures you want to change the speed of (not all) and then deselect (untick) the box that says 'Applies to All Stills.'

Adding sound to your animation.

Once I was happy with the speed of my animation I used my digital camera to film it playing. Then I opened Garage Band and created a New Project.

I selected Vocals and then got ready to voice my animation while playing the animation on my digital camera. This was so I could see the animation while I was talking, to try and get the timing right. I hit the little red circle to begin and end the recording.

Then I switched back to iMovie and clicked on the little music note on the right. I selected GarageBand and chose the name of my recording. Then I could drag and drop it into my animation.

Other people who made their animations used the recording feature in iMovie, which is probably easier. However if you do this you can only record sound to the length of the animation and nothing beyond it.

You can also add iMovie Sound Effects to your animation.

Publishing your finished animation.

Once you are happy with the look and sound of your animation, click on Share and publish it to youtube. You will need a youtube account to do this.

Now you can share your animation to friends and family far and wide, or publish it for the public :)

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Screencasting - Miss Wells

This is how to make a screencast on a Mac using Quicktime because Quicktime is free! Screencasts record the movements on your computer screen and can also optionally record your face, your voice and the sound of your clicks. Screencasts are great for creating how-to instructional videos for your students - how many times have you explained how to create a new doc? Or search on Google? Or tried to explain to your Aunty over the phone how to find a lost email draft??

Create a screencast and just send them the link!

The first thing you need to do is to find the Quicktime player using Spotlight in the top right hand corner.

You will click to open Quicktime and may be confused because nothing obvious appears to happen. However all that happens when you open Quicktime on a Mac is the bar at the very top of the screen will change to show Quicktime player.

Click on File and select which type of recording you want. Movie Recording will include film from your webcam. Audio is just sound. To screencast without your face select New Screen Recording.

This box will open. Click on the little downward facing arrow to check the settings before recording.

To screencast without sound select None for Microphone, for sound select Built In Microphone. If you want your clicks to be particularly obvious select Show Mouse Clicks in Recording.

Once your settings are sorted you can click the red record button. You will get the option of clicking (to record your entire screen) or you can drag and select a smaller area. Perhaps you do not want all of your tabs visible?

Now you are ready to record. Have all the tabs that you are going to talk about/show/move between already open because nobody wants to watch a loading screen. Just flick between them in your tabs instead - much faster and cleaner! Once you have finished recording press the stop square and a preview of your screencast will pop up, with this black box on it:

To publish your screencast select the tiny right-facing arrow on the right hand side of the black box, and select Youtube.

Log into your youtube account, and the video will upload to it!

Have fun creating screencasts :)

YouTube Web capture - Mr Borland

Great for students videoing themselves for assessment or interviewing maybe for assessment

Step 1: Log into Youtube with your google account

Step 2: Click 'upload'

Step 3: 'Web cam capture' - 'record'

You tube Uploading video from phones to YouTube - Mr Borland

Edit a video you have captured

Step 1: Log into Youtube with your google account

Step 2: Click on your email address at the top

Step 4: Email the URL address provided for videos to be saved to your YouTube account

YouTube Video Editing - Mr Borland

Edit videos you have taken including cutting, slow motion and text

Step 1: Log into Youtube with your google account

Step 2: Click on your email address at the top

Step 3: Click on video manager

Step 4 Select the video you would like to edit

YouTube Video Creation - Mr Borland

Create your own movies on you tube

Step 1: Log into Youtube with your google account

Step 2: Click on your email address at the top

Step 3: Click on video manager

Step 4: Click Creation tools

Step 5:Click Video editer

Step 6:Select your video and common video and have fun creating

How to Mask Images - Mrs Dunn

Copy of How to mask images

Google Moderator - Mrs Dunn

google.com/moderator

Good for collaboration, student voice, differentiated teaching

*Sign in

*Create series

*Share link with students

*Presentation mode ranks questions according to most voted

Google Trends - Mrs Dunn

google.com/trends

See what is currently trending

Visualise hot searches in full screen - bottom of the page (LHS)

For Multiple searches click the squares at the top of the page (LHS)

Google Alerts - Mrs Dunn

Get news/resources/weather/traffic etc mailed to you

goog.com/alerts

Select your fields

Click Create alert

Video not.es - Mr Dunn

*Get the app from the chrome web store

*Copy the URL of your video

*Open the app, paste video URL then upload

*type key words as the video runs.

Advanced search (Images) - Mrs Dunn

*Search for an image image

*Click on the cog (RHS)

*Advanced search

*Select according to size, colour, type of image

Advanced search (Information) - Mrs Dunn

Example

*Native animals - About 122,000,000 results

*“Native animals” Quotation marks - About *836,000 results

*Click cog on RHS- advance search according to Language, Region, Reading Levels - 10 results

Google Books - Mrs Dunn

Google Books

*Select a subject/topic, click Books then select

*Advanced search narrows your search

*Add to my library

*Create a bookshelf (similar to a folder)

*Organise your book on your shelf

*Can have multiple shelves

One Tab - Helping students find & open lots of sites at 1 time! - Miss Wells

If you are like me and you have spent tens of minutes in lessons trying to direct students to open the right activity, navigate to a quiz, and finding web pages, here is the app for you!

It is called onetab, and what it does is collate all the tabs you have open into one webpage. So all you have to do before a lesson is open up all the things you want students to have open during your lesson, hit onetab, and send them the link created!

Here's how to install and use it:

First, go to the chrome apps site, and click on the store icon.

Use the search box to find onetab.

It popped up at the bottom of my screen, not the very first option.

You will see a blue button that says 'free.' (Mine is green because I've already installed it). Click on it and install onetab.

Once you've installed it, a little blue icon will always be in the top right of your chrome browser.

Next, open up all the sites, docs, forms, activities, etc that you want students to have open and use during one lesson. Hit the little blue icon that you now have in your browser, and watch all the tabs collapse into one!

You will notice above the list of links are some other links that say 'restore all, delete all, share as webpage and more.' Click on 'share as web page.'

This will open a new tab. If you select and copy this webpage address (www.one-tab.com/page/w2...etc...) you can put it in an email to students, somewhere on your site, or however you share work with students. Notice also that you could share it as a QR code! Handy :)