The 2nd Grade students have been studying weather, so we used Photobooth to create a weather report.  On Photobooth, you can click on “Effects” and then go to the last page where the boxes say “User Backdrop 1.”  You can drag a photo straight into one of the black “User Backdrop” boxes.  Double click to open the backdrop with the picture you inserted.  It will ask you to move out of the way while it detects the background.  When the background is detected, you can move back into the frame.  Next, click on the film strip picture on the left side of the photo booth.  Click the “Camera Button” to begin recording and click again to stop the video.  Since we were doing a weather report, I put a Virginia map as the background and had the student read the weather report for that day.  You could do this for any subject you are studying.  Have fun!!

Weather Report from Karen Hues on Vimeo.