Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Thursday's Schedule

This is an important day for movie making. We have to get all of our slides created. We can deal with color, animation, and background later. The students who worked on it yesterday spent a bit too much time on those "extras." Here is the plan:
1. Check the blog
2. Type your WIKI journal entry
3. Meet at SmartBoard to get into groups and gather last remaining photos and voice overs needed
4. Photo and recording groups head out; others stay behind to work on movie
5. We need to find and decide on music TODAY!
6. We need to decide on a TITLE today!

Photos, voice recordings, & fact collecting - OH MY!

Today, Wednesday, they worked in their pairs to collect digital media for the video - voice recordings and photos. One group also interviewed the Superintendent to cover a few questions we had not answered yet. Overall 4 students used digital cameras and 2 students learned how to use a MP3 to record someone talking.

We also began creating the movie with Windows Movie Maker. 6 students were imported photos and inserted text into the movie today. They also played around with the text color and animation. About 2 and 1/2 minutes of video has been created. We are still in need of a good title and some free source GOOD music, if we can find any.

In between all this they each were able to visit several links on the blog and "play games," apparently one of many goals they had for the week. Stop Disasters is a favorite among them.