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Mali Videos

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The students in Ashley Marshall’s 3rd Grade class have been researching Mali and wanted to present what they had learned in a new way. They used their research material to write scripts for their group. Then they selected pictures from Britannica and Virtual Share to use as the backdrop for different scenes in their script. Ashley and I introduced the class to the green screen feature on PhotoBooth and they spent the following week recording each of their clips. The completed clips were then moved into their student folder so that the students could easily access them to create their finished product in iMovie.

For our next lesson, we used iMovie and the students pulled in all of their Photobooth clips and added transitions and titles. Once their videos were exported, the teacher put them on Vimeo so they wouldn’t take up so much space on her blog. Check out some of the final products!

2nd Grade Habitats Project

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The students at Maybeury Elementary have been studying different habitats and how they may change over time.  They also learned how animals must adapt in order to survive in their environment.  The students worked in small groups to research their habitat using the interactive glossary, ebooks, videos, etc on Discovery Education Science.  Next they worked with their teacher to find pictures of their habitat and write a script.  Finally, we filmed one habitat at a time using Photobooth with different photos as the background for different parts of the script.  Here’s an example of the desert habitat group:

Habitats from Karen Hues on Vimeo.

2nd Grade Weather Report

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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.