Making 'Always be an Up-stander' Movies by App Smashing with Stop Motion and iMovie in Year 3

In iMovie the audio string is always green and the movie and image strings are always above. The white line, called a Play Head is used for aligning and inserting to the strings. 

The students in Mrs Muraszko's class continued to use their skills with Stop Motion app to create short role plays of how to be an up-stander not a bystander to bullies. They then learned to export the movies directly from the Stop Motion app to the camera roll as a movie. As they worked in groups using one iPad they learned to use Air Drop to send the Stop Motion movie to all of their own devices for working on their iMovies individually. All students then learned how to create a new movie project in iMovie and import the Stop Motion video to the string. They then imported an image to be a title screen via a Google Advanced Search and finally added relevant theme music (seen as a green string above) to match the topic i.e. powerful, uplifting etc.

Creating Fractions Tutorials with Stop Motion in Year 3

The students in Mrs Muraszko's, Mrs Pott's and Mrs Wood's class learned how to create short fractions tutorials to teach others using the Stop Motion app.

Firstly, in their pairs (to save time and get clear pictures) the students cut out fractions from a whole with paper and used sticky notes to be their title screens. Then one of the partners held the iPad to get a clear and stable photo, while the other partner used the overlay slider to ensure that the next frame is overlaid as closely as possible to the previous frame for a smooth transition, kind of like a cartoon. The students used the sticky note 'titles' to help with this.

Then, the students took approx. 12 photos to put together as their stop motion movie. Finally, they recorded audio to align with their photo frames and complete the tutorial of fractions 1/2, 1/4, 1/8

Design and Digital Technology Challenge in Year 5

The students in Mrs William's and Mrs Adam's class have been working through a Design and Digital Technology challenge this Term. Initially, they went through a 5 step ideation process - Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype & Test. Through this they were able to frame their ideas of what to build as product ideas that provide solutions to a problem that are realistic and actionable.

 

 Then in groups the students selected their best product ideas and began designing a product.

They then began building their first Prototype, referred to as Mk I, Series 1 or Version 1.

After building their first Prototype the groups investigated other forms of technology such as Sphero and Makey Makey. The students agreed that knowledge of these technologies integrated into their projects enabled them to be able to excel or score the highest mark for many of their rubric gradations such as Planning, Coding and Design.

Finally, each group learned how to conduct a Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats (SWOT) analysis of their First Prototype to provide evidence of their re-design process. These were Air Dropped as a Keynote worksheet template. The groups then swung into action to redesign their Mk I prototypes and some groups made significant improvements to their products. These Mk II prototypes informed by a SWOT analysis will enable the students to satisfy the curriculum requirements to provide evidence of re-design through a process and score highly on their project rubric.