Movie+Trailers+--+A+Digital+Tease

Presenter: Stacy Wolfe Time: 9:30 - 10:15 Room: 1101 Contact: wolfes@rlasd.k12.pa.us

__Description of Presentation Learn about the ways to incorporate web 2.0 tools and movie maker software into your language arts classroom.

Huck Finn Movie Trailer Info __

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A Raisin in the Sun Web 2.0 Tool Project__ ____

__If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email!__  Presentation Blog/Notes: Multimedia in the classroom ~ Integration of text, animation, sound, and video in the classroom (web 2.0 tools – web based applications) ~ Keynote/ppt (can change to a web based tool online) Benefits: ~ student accountability ~ work from home ~ many options ~ fluid Detriments: ~ Internet based ~ Fluid (constantly being updated) Classroom Application: ~ __A Raisin in the Sun__ project that included music/poem/visual creation ~ 4 days to create and 3 days to present – Students presented with a web 2.0 tools ~ Students collaborated and learned tools together (2 students needed to use the same tool) Tools used: ~ Onetruemedia ~ Scrapblog ~ Jaycut ~ Joggle ~ myPlick ~ slideshare ~ JayCut ~ Slide Rocket ~Slide Roll ~ Voice Thread ~ Glogster ~ Slide Boom ~ Animoto ~ CogDogRoo – place to find these Web 2.0 tools Other ideas: ~ Scrapblog with Emily Dickinson’s poems ~ Use Circavie to chart an author’s life ~ Choose a character to blabberize ~ e-mail presenter for the other ideas Making Movies: ~ Why make them? …engage students, higher order thinking skills… fun… creative ~ Why do people see movies? (Purpose of making movie trailers) ~ Watched 2 trailers (of movies that the students did not see or could not see) ~ Discussed parts of the movie trailer ~ Watched 2 more movie trailers ~ The Assignment was for students to make their own movie trailer… (no more than 5 mns – most are 2-2 1/2 minutes) ~ Students scripted, acted, filmed, edited (divided up into 6 groups of 5). Students had multiple roles ~ Each group was given a different genre of a movie (Satire, comedy, romance, drama, action, musical) Steps to making the movies: ~ Step 1: Planning (3 days for students to storyboard (found online), create scripts, plan     costumes and props) ~ Step 2: Filming (2 days, filmed outside in the woods, used web cams on MacBook, some    students brought own cameras) ~ Step 3: Editing (3 days, used iMovie to add footage, music, sound, effects, and title slides – students learned by watching tutorials on how to use iMovie) ~ Step 4: Red Carpet Premier (Students dressed up & walked on the Red Carpet – invited admin and the press (even parents) to experience, held in aud to watch the “big screen”, gave out “Leo Awards” Was it worth it? ~ YES… students learned teamwork, troubleshooting, technology skills, independence, pride, ability to try new things  ~ Teacher burned DVDs of the trailers for students (charged $2 a DVD)

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