I have literally wanted to do this project with students for over 2 years, but the student computers weren’t fully up to date. A county refresh this past summer, and voilá, iMovie has now been updated. Ms. Armstrong’s class at Seven Pines Elementary had a blast making these projects. Now that the students really understand the whole process, Ms. Armstrong is excited to use this program again for a Henrico 21 project! This project was a 3 part lesson.
Lesson 1: The students learned how to use the Britannica Image Search website and downloaded our pictures.
Lesson 2: The students learned how to use Screencast-O-Matic to take video of our images.
Lesson 3: Using our Storyboard, we inserted our picture videos in iMovie and entered our text.
Since this was the first time we tried this, there were hiccups at every lesson along the way, but the students were great with rolling through the punches. They are also chomping at the bit to make more movie trailers for the next unit too!
Here’s a quick video of some students building their movie trailers today:
Here are a couple final products from the day! Great job, Ashton, Makayla, Alyssa, and Erin!
