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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Greek Myth Animation playlist and total collection Fall '12

Wanna get more details about using Animation Creator to make Greek Myths, check out the previous post:

 

Final Greek Myth Animation Creator works by 6-2 Fall '12

 

Or you can check out some of the best works of animation that my 6th graders created within this YouTube Playlist

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Student Stop Motion films on why they should be BYOD

Students were asked the question: "Should Horry County Schools be a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) School."

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They did research, wrote original skits and created props and backgrounds. I love animation, and wanted them to play around with Stop Motion animation. Some of them used objects in my class or themselves to get used to the app. 

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Afterwards, students teamed up with a partner or two and switched off between the role of animator and camera operator on the iPad's iMotion app.

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It took the majority of a week for the students to shoot their 750+ frames, so that they could create a thirty second short (@24 frames per second)

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The students could then edit and enhance their films with the iMovie app. I wanted each student in the group to add their own version or cut to the film, so they uploaded the video to a shared folder in Dropbox, and then downloaded the video to their own iPad.

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Some of the students were just immersed with making their own music in the Garageband app, which could then be imported into their iMovie project. Whereas other students were content with the basic songs that came on the iPad.

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This blog post features nearly every film that my 7th graders created.Some of them ran out of time to make music/titles, so I made a video of those and posted it to You Tube

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 Check out the rest of the shorts that the kids made and see if you agree or disagree with the concept of BYOD in schools.
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Monday, January 28, 2013

Final Fauvism Paintings with Drawcast

Wanna see the previous post and lesson plan to do this in your class, check out

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This student created a Fauvist inspired painting of President Obama by using a Complementary Color scheme of Purples and Yellows

 

Fauvist Painting Rough Drafts w/ Drawcast

 

After the students learned the basics of contour sketches and color schemes, they did a bit more advanced work than their hand by taking a photo of one of their classmates, or downloading a public domain photo

Thursday, January 24, 2013

I am Featured in the Launchpad Leaders Program for use of Toontastic

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I was asked by Launchpad Toys to submit information and this video for utilizing Toontastic in such a creative way

You can also check out a previous post I made about using iBooks to review their Toontastic Memoirs

You can also view the iBook of Toontastic Memoirs by 7th grade BWMS Media Arts students

You can see the full Mission Plan as a PDF on the Launchpad Leaders sitel 

Monday, January 21, 2013

I am Featured in November Parent News Magazine for use of Minecraft

Skim on through to page 10 to find an article written by one of my collaborting teachers Mrs. Baker and her article Get App...ppy

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You can also view the article on the Parent News Magazine web site

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Toontastic memoirs student films YouTube playlist

Here are some of my students Toontastic movies featured in a YouTube playlist

Don't forget to check out my previous Toontastic posts such as the iBook we made out of them or the Toontastic Memoir lesson plan

Friday, January 18, 2013

Fauvist Painting Rough Drafts w/ Drawcast

By introducing my students to Fauvism, they were able to create a simple piece of art that showcased Complementary Colors and Contour Line

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My Media Arts students get to make too much traditional art, so it was fun getting back into artistic concepts such as color and line. You can see some of my previous posts that utilized Color in the Classroom

7th graders took a photo of their hand with Drawcast. See some of my other posts that we used Drawcast to make art. They then did a contour sketch of their hand using the foreground layer. Once they had a good outline, they painted the midground with the appropiate color scheme with complementary colors

I look forward to their final project where hopefully they incorporate monochromatic or analogous color schemes as well

 

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Build Your Wild Self Stories : iBook of 6th grade BWMS Media Arts digital storytelling

Check out a previous blog post about Build Your Wild Self Stories

to get the individual stories and more details. Scroll down to read the full PDF version and the iBook version

Don't like PDF's? How about you download the iBook and read it on your Apple device

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Saturday, January 12, 2013

My ultimate guide to Minecraft in Education : YouTube playlist & Yahoo!! article

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Click the link below for my Yahoo! Voices article 

How to Download Minecraft : the Minecraft App in School Project

You can also check out my YouTube playlist of all of my Minecraft in Education videos

 

Or you can go back through all of my previous Minecraft Posts

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Manga Camera / Comic Book app creations within Pages (samples and lesson plan)

After my students played around with the Manga Camera app, they would then edit the photos in Comic Book! You can see some other examples on a previous Manga Camera blog post

They then arranged all of the edited photos into Pages along with a caption for what was going on. Here are the PDF's and if you scroll down lower you will see the instructions I made up. These are just a few of the most colorful pages I saved in PDF's, every student saved their file as a Pages document to be inserted into an iBook in the near future. 

If you scroll down to the bottom of this post, you can find out how to do this with your class and the rubric to grade it with

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Magna_script_Cameron_.pdf Download this file
Magna_Script_Keiana_Haigh.pdf Download this file
Manga_scrip_Tyler_.pdf Download this file
Manga_Script_Brent_7-2.pdf Download this file
Manga_Script_Cody_Hardee.pdf Download this file
Manga_Script_Devin.pdf Download this file
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Manga_Script_Laly_7–2.pdf Download this file
Manga_script_Megan.pdf Download this file
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Finally, here are the step by step PDF instructions that show you how to do this with your class

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And here is the Rubric by which the students will be graded

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