Making Decimals

We used plasticine to explore the meaning of decimal numbers.

Here is a time-lapse of everyone at work

eBooks

The Process
From woe to go!

1. Ideas
2. Brainstorm words, events, details
3. Draft in writing book - edit one
4. Type up
5. Double space text
6. Print for paper editing
7. Make changes to digital copy
8. Re-edit
9. Fix all final errors
10. Save to dropbox
11. Open on iPad in Dropbox
12. Copy text and paste into eBook creator
13. Save as a PDF back to Dropbox
14. Share link on class blog

    

Reviewing Learning

Use time-lapse to record a review or assess prior knowledge about a topic.

In these two videos a group of girls and a group of boys worked together.  What you don't see is the cooperation and the organisation that is going on out of view of the camera.

The same outline plan was used for both groups.  The starting point for these two films is the same.  This was done to provide a model for the students top plan their own work and to allow the groups to function together.

Both films are record of our thinking about our Olympics Learning.  They took about 30 minutes to create.

Time-lapse Lego

Here is another way to use Time-lapse to tell a story.

You need a lot of patience to create a film like this.

Tip: Start small - have a simple project idea to try out - make mistakes and learn from them

Step 1. Have an idea

Step 2. Draw a plan of what you want to do

Step 3. Collect the tools, equipment and prepare what you need to make your film

Step 4. Fix the camera so that it can't move

Step 5. Define your film area so that you only film what you want to

Step 6. Don't have too many characters or too much happening at one time

Step 7. Move your characters fraction by fraction to create your film

Good Luck

Let's Brainstorm some movie ideas

Time Lapse - Sketch

Watch this short video created by a time-lapse of a sketch book.

These short films are a great way to communicate stories or explain concepts and ideas.

What story could you tell in the same way?
Step 1. Think of something simple to explain
Step 2. Do some quick sketches to plan your idea (Tip - the order you do things in is key - so plan well)
Step 3. Time lapse yourself doing good quality drawings
Step 4. Import your film into imovie and add your voice commentary.

Time-lapse Cooperation

Everyone in the class contributed to this creation
I shared a plan and then we created it together in about 20 minutes.

Animation With iPad

How to create an animation on your iPad

We have Animation Creator on our class iPads - try it and see if you can create something

News Music Challenge

Here is a challenge for you.

Use Garageband to create a new piece of music for our class morning news.

Or

Create a piece of music as an introduction for a special news feature, sports or science feature

Or
create a pice of music for a story you have written and add the music to your eBook.



Here is a short lesson on how to start making your own music.

Postings

publish evidence of the work completed and the story of how a project was completed
what was learnt
what worked what didn't work
reflective evaluations

Blog Posting Outline

My Plan
what is your idea?
what are you going to do?
how will you do it?
what are the steps you need to go through?

Do
What did you do?
evidence examples
description


Review
what happened
what worked
what didn't work?
what would you differently next time?
how would you change what you did if you did it again?

First Comic

Well done Preston

Preston made this comic using the iPad

How do you do this?

Step 1. Copy pictures from the internet and save them in the iPad photo collection

Step 2. Open up the iPad Comic application

Step 3. Select a comic layout and import the photos

Step 4. Add speech bubbles and dialoge

Step 5. Remember to save your comic before you close

What ideas do you have for a comic?

Yes you can import any pictures and make a comic with them

Yes you could make multiple pages and then create an eBook

Yes you can change the style of the picture so that photos look more like a comic book

Let's Brianstorm some ideas and I'll add them here.