How to Sneak a Monster to School - The Movie - in Year 3

The student's in Mrs Pott's class used their procedure scripts of 'How to Sneak a Monster to School' to create iMovies of their procedures. The students learned to select, input and edit audio ranging from theme music and voice overs for their movies. Many used their headphones to do their audio editing as required in the general capabilites for ICT curriculum.

Butterfly Life Cycle Keynotes in Year 3

The students in Mrs Murazko's and Mrs Wood's class created Keynote presentations with animations teaching others about the life cycle of a Butterfly. The students had the benefit of a real life cocoon to observe whilst creating their presentations in Keynote on the iPads.

Autobiography and Biography Stop Motion Animations in Year 6

The student's in Mr Hort's and Mrs Wallace's class began creating their biography and autobiography stop motion animations. After planning them with Popplet and Simple Mind app the students collected their materials for their backgrounds, characters and objects to build their animations scene by scene with a large variety of paper, lego, clay and figurines used. Further, the students utilised their iPad holders that they had designed by applying a full Design Thinking process accounting for angle (side or birds-eye-view), lighting and distance from the lens.

Researching and Planning Biographies and Autobiographies in Year 6

Popplet App

Simple Mind App

Google Advanced Search

In Mrs Wallaces' and Mr Hort's class the students used 2 different mind-mapping apps to plan and research biographies/autobiographies. Some used Simple Mind while others utilised the simple format of Popplet app to plan their subsequent research. The students found that their plans helped inform their research and conversely they were able to add to their plans through their research.

Multiple Movie Editing in Year 3

Movies created in Explain Everything can be exported to iMovie. 

The Explain Everything movies appear like any other movie input in iMovie.

We also learned to make credits for our movies which acknowledged all online sources used in making the movie.

In Mrs Murazko's, Mrs Pott's and Mrs Woods' Year 3 classes the students learned to create movies from multiple movie files or sources using iMovie app. As the students had learned how to create explanations in Explain Everything already they thought it would be a good source for adding to their procedural videos they are creating in iMovie. It was also a great opportunity to learn how to created credits that can acknowledge sources obtained online using the text titles to reference websites that they researched using a Google Advanced Search.

iMovies about Monsters in Year 3

Students can order their video, images and audio inputs easily with the string.

The Year 3's in Mrs Pott's class continued to develop their iMovie creation skills through making a movie based on 'How to Bring a Monster to School'. As they developed their procedures for doing this they created scenes that matched in their movies. Their audience was younger students which they identified need simple and specific language to understand the procedure.

Digital Life Cycles in Year 3

The Life Cycles Keynote worksheet airdropped to the student devices.

Students created their own life cycles in Keynote using elements such as arrows and image import.

The students in Mrs Wood's and Mrs Murazko's class used Keynote to enhance their understanding of life cycles by creating a presentation for others. After completing a digital worksheet that familiarised them with the inputs, outputs and editing elements the students were able to create life cycles of animals of their own choice.

Design Thinking iPad Accessories in Year 6

Extracting and idea and designing by sketch.

5 Stage Design Thinking Process - Plan/Ideate/Design/Prototype/Test

The students in Mr Hort's and Mrs Wallace's class used the the Design Thinking process to add an element of Design to their Digital products - a biography or autobiography stop motion animation movie. After using the Stop Motion studio app in Science to produce a short animation about Symbiosis the students were well placed to engage with a larger and longer creation. However, as part of the planning phase it became apparent that an iPad holder of unique design was needed. The ideas were plentiful and the designs very unique.