Posted by roundrocktechguy on 9th March 2009
Last week Mrs. Sellers and Mrs. Gustafson conducted a Charlotte’s Web Play with their classes. Not only did they conduct the play they also recorded it. After recording it they compiled and edited the video into a nice production for parents to see. If you have access to view their wiki pages stop by and take a look! That is an awesome way to use technology! Keep up that good editing and you could have a nice carrier ahead of you. No wait scratch that, we want you staying here with us!
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Posted by roundrocktechguy on 9th February 2009
Last week we had several teachers participate in a workshop for PhotoStory 3. Our teachers learned how to take pictures from our digital cameras and turn them into a video production with voiceovers and music. We all shared ideas of how our teachers can use this program in the classroom and ideas for how they can have their students use it. Ideas like: Angle Hunts, Timelines, Noun Hunts, Talking Books, How to Vidoes, Photo Tours, About the Teacher/Student Videos, Visual Poems, Idiom Videos, Visual Dictionaries, and lots more! I hope to see some good projects coming from this soon! Check out the pictures below of our teachers taking pictures for their videos.
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Posted by roundrocktechguy on 1st April 2008
This weeks Tech Tip is for the Social Studies Teacher. You will find that Google has partnered with the NARA to digitize 104 films of history. You will find them on the Google page http://video.google.com/nara.html .
I took a look at one of the news reels from D-Day and it was amazing looking at this time in history as it happened.Teachers can use this public domain data by allowing students to view the content as it was in history. How powerful could this be?!
You will find clips from NASA, War News Reels, and the Department of Interior. The Department of Interior video about the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1936 was awesome! I loved seeing the old machinery working as I gained a new appreciation for the advancement of Technology today.
I think you will find this a great tool for teaching history and giving students an opportunity to view history through the eyes of the people that lived it.
Note: I do advise; preview each clip before you show it to your students. Some things just shouldn’t be seen by certain age groups.
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