Create professional looking movies with this app using pictures/photographs/video. You can create a quick movie trailer with transitions and music all ready pre-made for you or create a full movie where you can choose your narration, transitions and music. This app is $4.99 but very well worth it.
Technology Integration Ideas
- Documentation: Use the camera and microphone to record student work and performances. You might record students reading, to track progress, video record a student playing a short riff in band class, or record a performance in Phys.Ed, or pretty much any other course.
- Peer Feedback: Use video as a great medium to get students to begin to provide each other with feedback. Watching in pairs or small groups can become a catalyst for powerful conversations.
- Self Reflection: Students learning to be self aware and provide self-feedback is one of the most effective things we can teach our students. They can watch themselves doing some sort of performance (as described in Documentation above), and give them some structure or checklist to follow.
- Creating Movies: Youtube is the most popular and powerful search engine for kids, it is how they communicate. Students also should be learning how to create movies so that they can be active participants in the media. iMovie makes it easy to include elements such as text, transitions, visuals and music; all elements that make the medium a powerful one.
- Story Telling: have students tell personal stories and turn them into digital stories using pictures and images from their classroom and their lives.
- Photo Essay: Photo-essays are powerful ways to convey messages through visuals and text. Students can easily add text-based-slides to iMovie using another app called iMovie Extras.
- Field Trips: Field trips / Field studies are great, and students can use the iPads video recoding/editing capabilities to document the experience so that they can bring it back to the classroom.
- Creating Instructional Videos: We learn best when we teach something: students can quickly make instructional videos using iMovie and the iPad, by recording them selves and their peers, and cutting the moving into a logical sequence of instructions.
iMovie Implementation Steps
1. Before planning, give students 30 minutes with iMovie to explore the features (or show them the features). Giving students time to "play" with iMovie will help them see what they will need to plan for.
2. Use one of the planning templates below to have students plan our their iMovies. What images will they use? What music will they use? Will they narrate? What order?
3. Get out iPads and have students start creating their iMovies. If they are narrating, think about having them go to a corner or quiet area of the room so as to eliminate background noise.
4. When students are finished, you can upload their video to your YouTube account. Here is a guide on how to do that.
1. Before planning, give students 30 minutes with iMovie to explore the features (or show them the features). Giving students time to "play" with iMovie will help them see what they will need to plan for.
2. Use one of the planning templates below to have students plan our their iMovies. What images will they use? What music will they use? Will they narrate? What order?
3. Get out iPads and have students start creating their iMovies. If they are narrating, think about having them go to a corner or quiet area of the room so as to eliminate background noise.
4. When students are finished, you can upload their video to your YouTube account. Here is a guide on how to do that.
iMove Planning TRAILER STYLE Templates:
iMovie Tutorials
iMovie app tutorial. Part 1 from Mike Padilla on Vimeo. |
iMovie app tutorial. Part 2 from Mike Padilla on Vimeo. |
iMovie app tutorial. Part 3 from Mike Padilla on Vimeo.
I'm Done! How to get your iMovies from your iPad to YouTube.
Examples from Grandview C4 Classrooms!
Belvidere's Mrs. McIntyre's 5th Graders American Revolution Reports (Spring 2014)
The Battle of Yorktown from D. McIntyre on Vimeo. |
Conn-West Mrs. Lares 1st Graders Make an Animal iMovie (Spring 2014)
Grandview Summer School 2014 Peter Pan Movie Trailer
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Martin City's Mrs. Williams 5th Grade iMovie Reports (Spring 2014)
Mrs. Moore's 1st Graders October 2014 Weather Movies |