Attribution http://blog.rozee.pk/2010/05/12/effective-team-leader/ & http://icon-king.com
Great meeting today about the continuation of the DEECD WMR Hobson's Bay Network Students as eLearning Leaders continuing for Grade 5 students in 2011.
These were my ideas below, which were thrown into the mix. The final outline when completed, will really build on the successes of 2011.
Download my presentation to the project team. Download HB Students as eLL
Session Two went really well
• All groups finished storyboard, which contained description of action, location, costumes & props.
• Demonstrated how to use [Flip] camera without tripod by using the non camera hand as a brace.
• Discussed shots from Extreme Wide Shot to Extreme Closeup. Also how to pan.
• When to pan or zoom or when not too!
• Students all got hands on practice time with the cameras.
See updated teaching notes. Download Digital Video Grade 2
With the end of the school year approaching in Australia, I've decided to teach all the grade twos movie making!
The Task
1. Production time: five x one hour sessions.
2. Text type: narrative.
3. Topic: A re-telling or a "Fractured Fairy Tale" [ Rocky and Bullwinkle ride again!]
4. Production teams: 4 - 5 students
5. Equipment: Flip cameras, iMac / iMovie
Just completed week one, students are very excited!
Download my lesson presentation here Download Digital Video Grade 2
Will write about the progress each week. The idea is that each grade can show there movies to a buddy grade in the last week of term!
Two years ago I wrote some activities for a Design Creativity & Technology unit about model Billy Carts. This activity was pitched at years 5 & 6. These activities are still around in my other blog, http://ictedservices.typepad.com/elearning/billy-carts/
However, this time around these activities have been refined and compacted a bit! They are also better supported for student learning, with more tutorials and screencasts.
I've created a model website for students with examples, some instructions and assessment rubrics. It is available at http://www.ictedservices.info/billy_cart_2011/Home.html
Any queries about this unit, just ask!
[As with any software recommendations in my blog and websites, what I write about, is my opinion only and I take no responsibility for anything going wrong with your computer, server, network etc.. Please read the conditions and product disclosures and EULA for each application. Always exercise care and caution!]
Missed out on blogging about this great student event at the Collongwood Children's Farm and Abbotsford Convent earlier. eTrain 2011 was conducted on March 22 & 23, 2011. This is the fourth year that I have been asked to work with students at this event. Again students constructed a website about the farm with rich multimedia, using iWeb and the rest of the iLife suite. A great couple of days.
Student website is at http://www.ictedservices.info/etrain2011.htm
This ANZAC Day blogpost comes from a number of sources. It originally starts with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28.06.1914, my great uncle's involvement in what followed, his army records that are available on the web and a great video project which involves school students for Australian students in 2011 on themes of
• War Stories • Forgiveness • Culture • The Home Front • Legacy •Our Community.
The latter part of this started for me in hearing an Elluminate web conference from the History Teachers Association of Victoria [ HTAV] on the 1000 Poppies project in early February this year. This recording is still available for download at http://guidetoinnovation.ning.com/events/remembrance-day-1000-poppies. Also see the HTAV's website at http://1000poppies.org .
You can find out everything that you need to know about this great project from these links. It is certainly a great idea to link two events which are traditionally honoured and taught in schools in Australia [ANZAC Day, 25th of April and Remembrance Day, 11th of November] and move the teaching of them into the 21st Century through the use of video, the internet and Web 2.0 technologies.
Back to 1000 Poppies activities for students a bit later though.
What this did get me thinking about, was my own family World War One story. My great uncle [my paternal grandmother's brother], Norman Max Pontin, [or as some records show Max Norman Pontin], enlisted in the first Australian Imperial Force [AIF] on 12.07.1915. He left Australia on 16.10.1915 and ended up killed in action on the Western Front [ Bullecourt, France], on 11.04.1917.
None of this is unique or special, it is the story of a tragedy that affected one Australian family amongst hundreds of thousands of Australian families of during World War One and beyond. My great uncle was blown to smithereens and what remains lies of him lies under, what is now in summer, peaceful green fields. His name is remembered on the wall of the Australian War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.
What is great, is that the records of Australian World War One diggers are freely available on the internet. For my great uncle's war record go to Australian ANZACS in the Great war 1914-1918
http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/index.html and do a search.
But the best thing was being able to get my great uncle's service record at National Archives of Australia http://www.naa.gov.au/
The service record goes for some 60 pages starting with this page.
The most harrowing find in these records was a copy of a letter, written on behalf of my great uncle's mother, by his brother, looking for some closure, a body to bury really..
One that has never been found.
Every family in the world has one of more war stories in its history this is one of mine.
The futility of war is just unbelievable, but in fact if humanity can use history to learn from the mistakes from the past, then activities such as the 1000 Poppies project are truly significant.
One of its activities is a short video competition for school students on those themes I mentioned in the opening paragraph. See http://www.1000poppies.org/network/images/poppiescomp.pdf . Students have only about 6 weeks to complete their video [which includes over two weeks of holidays]. I asked grade 5/6 students at the school where I teach, who would be interested in entering the 1000 Poppies Challenge? This was on the basis that I would be only a resource, lend cameras, teach editing skills etc., but that the video to be completely planned, shot and edited in the students' own time and that production teams could be no bigger than three students.
What amazed me about my invitation was that 20 students turned up to the first lunchtime meeting about the Challenge, which is about 10% of the total grade 5/6 enrolment in the school!
Now maybe not all the six production teams will complete their videos, but it does indicate what a strong influence ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day still has on today's students.
Will post again when some videos are completed.
Am I getting old or what? I open the The Age here in Melbourne today, to find that the new year [and decade] is headlined by the fact that Baby Boomers [or at least the first ones] are now 65 years old! O.K. do the math, yes it’s true. 2011 minus 1945 [ the end on WWII] equals 65.
But the bigger shock was on last night’s news which was that the roll ever of Kodachrome had been processed. This is sad news! I know that I never missed the decline of the 78 rpm record, or the 8 track cartridge or Betamax. I do now miss the decline of Pianola piano rolls, now that I have inherited a player piano.
But Kodachrome! Deserving of having a song written about it, it was so high tech in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Every Baby Boomer will remember being bored witless by the family slide nights, particularly if you had a uncle with a 35mm camera and enough money to afford those yellow boxes of Kodachrome. If you were really lucky he may have been on a trip to Europe and was prepared to show you all those slides at one sitting. Kodachromes from a moving bus or train were a particular highlight.
But hang on didn’t I go to Europe in the mid 1970’s? Didn’t I take endless Kodachrome slides? Yes I confess I did, but they are still in those little yellow boxes in storage somewhere, just waiting to be converted to jpgs with one of those little slide converter devices [ZOMG!]
For the historical record this is me captured in Kodachrome, out the front of my old house, probably on the way to Sunday School, circa 1959.
Links to the Kodachrome and its sad passing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpaNJqF4po
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12095771
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/07/23/128728114/kodachrome http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1343015/Last-roll-Kodachrome-film-developed-digital-revolution-brings-75-years-camera-history-close.html
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• Hopefully this will not be the last Slide2Learn Conference. Well done guys!
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1. IEAR.org is now set up for Teachers who want to post "Student App Reviews" http://www.iear.org/student-app-reviews/ ... Spread the word!
2. Let's add 30 more teacher reviewers before the end of the Summer. Spread the word! We could have 2 app reviews a day! Let's help each other to leverage these devices in the classroom ... http://www.iear.org/iear/2010/3/5/app-reviewers-wanted.html
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