Photos, Music, Voice Recordings - Are we done yet?

The group took additional photos today of some things outside in between the rainclouds. We still need a photo of the class, the green house and old school building.

We have more Voice Recordings than we can even use in the video. We used a MP3 player that is also a digital recorder to collect thoughts from teachers. A few students discussed that voice recordings over slides with information written on them would not "look" or "sound" right. We plan to use music over such slides and try to insert voice recordings over photos with no major information written on them.

As for Music, we found public domain, free downloads of music. It was mostly classical in nature, however one student came early to "listen" to some of it and choose a few songs to use in the movie. It was a great site, very well organized, check out the link.

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.