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4-501 Video Poetry

This post has student poetry videos from class 4-501. Click the title of the post to watch the videos.

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Goals for this Website Share what’s going on in the classrooms, and at school with the community Transform our school into 21st Century Learning Environments Teach students to understand the world they are living in, in a safe and guided way. Give them the skills to become lifelong learners, and responsible members of the online [...]

iMovie Step-by-Step guide for Teachers!

Hey PS 130 Teachers, For those of you who have participated in our video productions this year, or were wondering how it’s done, I created an online (and printable) tutorial for creating slide-show, or image-based videos in iMovie. You can check it out here: Teacher Directions for using iPhoto and iMovie to make image-based “Slide [...]

RE-worked 4th Grade Video Poetry Schedule

4th Grade Teachers, I’ve been keeping our schedule and ongoing production notes using the following “Google Doc”: PS 130 4th Grade Video Poetry Unit It will be updated weekly until we finish the project.  I will publish it to our website as an archived resource when we’re through.

4th Grade Video Poetry Unit, May-June 2008

NOTES FROM 5.9 PLANNING MEETING Video Poetry Production Plan Students will adapt written poems into digital multimedia poetry productions using laptop computers. teachers will select one student-written poem to adapt students will sketch storyboards outlining criteria for an image for each line, or stanza of their poem, and write down the key words they will [...]

Agenda for 4th grade Media Education

Today’s Agenda Introductions Scope of work — 6 Meetings Discussion of available technology: iMacs 3 Watkins/502; 5 iBooks Val/503 shaky; Brown 0; Silberman 16 PCs Overview of NETS Standards and 130 Goals Showcase 130 tech work to date: Blogging & Video Production Check out 3rd grade planning posts and resources on the staff website (tutorials, [...]

Hey PS 130, What do YOU do when you get angry?

Class 3-307 is talking about what we do when we get angry.  Read our comments, and leave your own comment telling us what you do when you get angry to make your self feel better.

Growing up Online — PBS Frontline Documentary

From a review I published on TheMediaSpot.org: “The PBS Frontline documentary, Growing Up Online, is an exploration of the digital world that kids are spending a lot of time in these days. Frontline may tend to put a hard spin issues like this, but this one was SCARY… And I’m not even a parent! If [...]

Introduction to iMovie, First Grade

Today we are introducing the first grade classes to the iMovie video editing program on the Apple/Mac computers. Goals: create simple slide show presentations using digital photos and student narration develop teachers’ understanding of how iMovie can work in the classroom get students to understand that making a movie is an alternative way to communicate [...]