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School Video News - John Churchman - Grades 6
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School Video News provides valuable resources and on-going professional guidance for educators developing technical expertise in video production. Their free monthly magazine is full of technical articles written by industry professionals. The web site posts examples of student projects, production tips, school profiles, and product reviews. The teacher page contains articles that focus on issues common to educators, provides legal tips on copyright laws, book suggestions, video tutorials, information about grants and competitions. An especially good feature is the excellent lesson plans and activities that come complete with an email contact for questions or feedback. Subscribe to their monthly magazine or follow their twitter posts @schoolvideonews.
This site is a fantastic professional development resource to enhance educator’s technical expertise in video production. There are articles and a wealth of information about possible grants and competitions. Those who have grant money to spend will find the informative product reviews helpful for making equipment decisions. The discussion board is great way to reach out to other professionals and develop a personal learning network. Facilitators of school television productions or broadcast journalism will find not only informative technical advice but also guidance about ethical decision-making and how to handle controversial subject matter. It is worth it to subscribe to this site, everything is here.
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Divide students into cooperative learning groups to explore the site. Have student’s jigsaw various articles from the "Production" page and research the stages in production and the responsibility of each team member’s role. After assigning positions to student, ask them to do more in-depth research about the expectations of their particular job. Have students create multimedia presentations about their job, such as having students create an interactive online poster ("glog") using Glogster EDU, reviewed here.
Recommend video tutorials or articles on subjects such as how to build dollies, create green screens, lighting, design backdrops, shoot angles or how to monitor a sound track. Help students take incentive for their own learning by merely directing them to informative on-line resources. |
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| The Daily Shoot - James Duncan Davidson & Mike Clark - Grades 6
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This site will spur student photographers to expect more from their work and to learn from others. Each day "The Daily Shoot" posts an assignment meant to motivate and encourage photographers across the world. A daily tweet on their twitter account (@dailyshoot) announces that day's assignment. Simply shoot, upload, and share your response. There are 12 different photo-sharing services available to use. Upload the photo and tweet out a link to the @dailyshoot. Be sure to include an assignment hashtag in the tweet. There are no submission deadlines or due dates. Feel free to go back to past assignments and post to them. Students who are not quite ready to share their work will enjoy browsing through the pictures other photographers have taken. The Daily Shoot is not only an opportunity to learn more about photography but a chance to develop the discipline of daily practice and self-motivation.
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Have photography students participate in the daily assignments. Since Twitter is the choice platform for sharing, be sure to check with a school administrator before setting up individual accounts. Consider setting up a single teacher account and have all the students use that login to avoid safety concerns. Check to make sure your school does not block this site. To avoid some of the above issues create your own class blog for students to post their photos to. Use tools such as Glogster as a space for students to post and share their photos reviewed here. Have students write poetry or short stories to accompany their photograph. Publish student work online using a tool such as Bookr (reviewed here) reviewed here. Participating photography students may enjoy saving their work in online portfolios such as Pullfoilio (reviewed here). Remember to get parent permission before posting any student work on a sharing site and to post a link to projects on the class website. |
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| Medal Maker - National Gallery of Art - Grades 3
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Use the National Gallery of Art's Medal Maker to commemorate a historical or personal hero. Students start by selecting a hero and explaining why that person deserves a medal. Then students design the medal and print the award for sharing.
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During a history unit, have students research an important figure. Using their research, they can create a medal to award the important historical figure. Students can print their final copies and share them with classmates. Have students create podcasts using a site such as PodOmatic (reviewed here) to share WHY their historical figure is their hero. |
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| September 11 Teacher Awards - Tribute World Trade Center Organization - Grades 0
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Are you looking for ways to inspire meaningful discussions of September 11th and to help make sense of this tragedy? The Tribute World Trade Center Visitor Center of New York City presents awards to honor teachers who have created exemplary educational projects for students to express and sustain the memory of September 11th. This site shares their projects from the globe and involving all aspects of the arts and humanities, including history, language arts, visual, media and performing arts. Although this site is mainly designed for grades 5-12, there are some activities for younger elementary students found in the "Resources for Your Classroom" section of the site.
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Use these award winning ideas to commemorate September 11 in a lesson to demonstrate unity or build worldwide understanding. Use the concepts as a springboard to a collaborative project. Ideas vary from sending chains of origami cranes as a wish for peace, composing and singing a song for unity with an online tool such as Woices (beta)reviewed here), writing letters to local politicians, creating poems and transforming them into digital videos or multimedia presentations using Voicethread reviewed here, or taking responsibility for the environment while creating a sense of community by planting gardens. Choose from many ways to inspire students to recognize the importance of September 11 and to involve them in working together to become a more tolerant society. You might be so amazed with the results that you will want to submit your students’ projects to be considered for next year’s Tribute Center September 11th Teacher Awards. The annual award ceremony takes place on February 26, to commemorate the 1993 first attack on the World Trade Center.
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| Grabba Beast - Tangible Worldwide - Grades 0
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Grabba Beast lets you build your own beast. It is similar to Mr. Potato Head (with some additional art elements). Students will enjoy choosing from an extensive library of body types and parts and then assembling them into a repulsive, darling, or absurd beast. Viewers can build their own beast, edit those belonging to other users, or generate a completely random creation. Fully grown beasts can either stay in their on-line gallery, turn into an ecard, change into desktop wallpaper, or travel to a social networking site. Saving the beast requires a student to enter their name but does not ask for additional information beyond that. Using a pseudonym might be a good alternative to real names. Of course you will want written parent permission before submitting student work to this online gallery. Unfortunately, it is not possible to download the beast as a decent size JPG. Grabba Beast in the winner of both the "Best of Entertainment" and "Best of Show" 2010 WebVisionary Awards. This site is just plain fun (and educational)!
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Grabba Beast offers an opportunity to improve the imaginary talent of students and stimulate their ability to produce several creative ideas. The site provides the opportunity to continually modify and change beasts. This demonstrates to students that new ideas often originate from combining of materials and characteristics in different ways. Have students describe the attributes of their monster, create a character profile, or write clues to help others identify their beast. Push student’s creative abilities even further by asking them to adjust their monster so that it can perform various tasks. You can also have them create beasts that fit mythical environments through adaptations, thus reinforcing science concepts creatively. This activity would work well for individual or pairs of students in a lab or on laptops. |
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| NEN Gallery - National Education Network - Grades 0
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Here is a copyright free gallery of over 50,000 high quality images, video clips, and audio files for the educational community. View the gallery online and download free files, without having to register or create an account. Registration is necessary for the uploading of files. Moderators review all content on the site before posting. Registered users can store content in separate online albums. Search the site's resources by keyword, subject, instructional age, or phrase. The site originates from the United Kingdom so you may notice some spelling differences from American English. The gallery files reflect this particular geographic location, history, culture and language.
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Bring history lessons about the 20th century alive by reviewing World War II photographs, videos, and interviews with survivors from the United Kingdom. Then ask your class to upload photographs of artifacts, people, film clips or conduct interviewers with survivors in their own community. Record the interview with a site such as Vocaroo reviewed here. Compare and contrast the experiences of both groups during the War. Have students in family and consumer science research fashion, clothing, food, and/or drink from various locations and time periods. Enrich an anticipatory set about William Shakespeare with photographs of his birthplace, Macduff's castle, the Globe Theatre, and his cottage in Stratford. Younger children will enjoy the numerous digital images of animals and antique toys. Prepare a series of topic albums for students to access and use for research by using the sites "My Album" feature. |
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| Muse - Drew Wilson - Grades 6
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Design is an integral part of our everyday life. Explore a design gallery from contemporary artists across the globe. The site's creator, Drew Wilson, interviews commercial artists and reveals their background, inspiration, and what equipment they use to create their work. Find intriguing designers and learn about the artists who influence their work. The site also features aspiring designers, animators, or filmmakers who submit projects to Muse.
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This site will help students become more aware of how visual design surrounds us and influences our choices. Students studying art, digital design, animation, filmmaking, advertising, illustration, fashion design, or consumerism will find this site a valuable resource. They will view what currently happening in the design world, the role artists play in the creation of various projects and what equipment and programs they use. Ask students to explain common fashion trends, analyze how color evokes mood, discover the avenues of work experience artists follow, or discuss what makes one project's work more unique than another. Use images from this site as part of a unit on advertising and consumerism, as well. Have your students create an interactive online poster ("glog") using Glogster EDU, reviewed here to visually explain an advertising technique, design concepts or elements, and collect examples. |
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| Pullfolio - pullfolio.com - Grades 8
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Teachers First Edge Review: For slightly adventurous technology users. Create an online portfolio created from your flickr set of specific photos. Choose your photos by choosing a set or a specific tag. Pictures are displayed in an elegant and beautiful format. Since Pullfolio is not flash based, the ipod/iphone app is another plus. Pullfolio instantly updates as you update your flickr set or continue to use the tag. Use the free version or go pro to use your own domain and access additional features.
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Skills required: Users must be able to add pictures to a set on flickr or use a specific tag for particular pictures. Register for an account using a password. Be sure to choose your username carefully as it becomes part of the url of your portfolio. Follow the directions to identify your flickr account with Pullfolio.
Safety/security: An email address is required for registration of this tool. Tip: rather than using your personal or work email, create a free Gmail account to use for memberships. If you plan to have students register individually, you may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how to set up GMail subaccounts to use for any online membership service.
Have students create their own pullfolio, but why not create a class pullfolio that showcases student work? If using as a class pullfolio, pictures will not be attributed to the individual students. Create some way of identifying pictures to various students. Require students to tag their pictures with their initials as well or create a comment with their initials in the picture's description.
Possible Uses: This tool would be a great asset to a photography or art class but can be used in any subject area. Create a pullfolio of pictures that showcase life around us, or in a Math class to show various Math functions in man made structures and nature. Use this site to take your geography class around the world (virtually). Have students create presentations in any subject area and narrate the pictures rather than doing a traditional oral report. Speech and language on lower grades or ESL/ELL teachers could create pullfolios for vocabulary development, tagging them for positions, feelings, etc. Involve students in taking the pictures, then share the resulting pullfolios for them to practice their new words. |
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| fastr - a flickr game - random chaos - Grades 3
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Guess what a group of photos have in common with this simple game that draws from flickr images. The game shows a group of images, and you must guess what "tag" the images have in common.
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Share a fastr game on your projector or interactive whiteboard to get the mental juices flowing at the start of class. Build word choice vocabulary for speech/language students or ESL/ELL students as they guess what word the photos have in common. Extend the experience by having students create their own groups of images (perhaps even taking their own with a digital camera) to support a curriculum concept, such as "omnivore" or "well." Use this tool in combination with a Flickr search tool such as FlickrCC reviewed here to help students understand tagging and see how an unusual combination of images can share the same tag. |
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| Historic Tool Construction Kit - Karnebogen - Grades 3
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This online "Kit" allows students to create stories with Medieval graphics a la Bayeux Tapestries and antique-style text. Students drag the selected picture onto the screen and click on text to begin writing the story. They can change the graphic to its mirror image easily. Options include deleting the page or going on to a new page in the story. Students can save, e-mail, and view other historical tales already created. Although the graphics include plenty of men, animals, and buildings, there do not seem to be many females available! Given the historic source of the graphics, this alone could spark an interesting discussion about the Bayeux Tapestries and the times when they were produced.
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Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students use this story writing site to summarize historical tales or to creatively imagine and display what might have been if historical events had gone in a different way. Have students write a blog entry from the perspective of a male, female, or even animal during this time period. Use this site as an inspiration for developing student's own system of pictographs for story-telling. |
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| Web Resizer - webresizer.com - Grades 2
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Teachers First Edge Review: for slightly adventurous technology users looking to change file size of a photo quickly and easily. This site is quick, easy, requires no registration, and FREE. Upload your image to this site in order to create a smaller file size for use on other sites and applications as well as adding effects such as corner rounding, rotating, tinting, changing contrast/brightness, or adding borders/edges. Upload an image up to 5 MB to alter easily with this site. Web resizer automatically reduces the file size to create an optimized image. Be sure to click "apply changes" once you have finished making selections. Click "start over" to remove previous changes. Download the image easily in a JPEG format.
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Provide the link to this site for students to use in altering and resizing images for use in presentations and online applications. Be sure students understand the file size needed for the various sites that are used in class (for example, wikispaces has a 20 MB file size limit.) |
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| Do Ink - DK pictures Inc. - Grades 2
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Teachers First Edge review: For moderately adventurous technology users. Use DoInk to create original artwork, animations, and even collaborate with others. Feel free to use elements from others artwork in your own creations. Download your creations to your computer or upload to a social networking site such as Facebook. Use this free resource to unleash creativity.
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Skills required: Create a login with your email. Click "Create" to begin. Use the commands along the top to add text or images, draw, color, and create animations. Drag elements from other drawings to yours. Save your creations either in your account, or download directly to your computer. Listen to the video tutorials created by Do Ink as well as other users on how to best use the tools.
Safety/security: Creations can either be marked private and therefore hidden from the rest of the world. If marked public and commented upon, creations can be viewed on the main page. Be sure to check with district policies concerning posting of student work online and student registration with emails. Students must have individual accounts (email required). Check your school policies about accessing/sharing student email on school computers. You may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how. Consider creating a class account for student use. All students would have access to the creations made in the one account. Be sure to spell out what is considered appropriate and also thought of as destruction of content. Though the main page shows contributed content, reviews of the site have shown no inappropriate content. Teachers should be wary though and check the public page frequently.
In the classroom: Use DoInk for any creative work. Create animations of any concept including Math, Science, etc. Draw mitosis, the parts of a cell, or creating fractions from an object. Use the art commands or animations to show a process such as cell division, retell a story, make an animation or cartoon about a writing prompt, and many others. Allow students time to make their own avatars. Learn about niche and habitat by creating artwork that depicts the personal niche and habitat of each student. Create animations for historic figures to tell their stories or for literary characters to explain their motivations and inner thoughts. Animate processes such as the water cycle or make a whole-class animation of the life cycle of a plant. Begin a drawing of a cell and allow other students to collaborate on its creation. |
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| Timelines.com - Timelines, Inc. - Grades 4
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Teacher's First Edge Review: For moderately adventurous technology users. This site, containing tons of timelines is great for a number of different content areas. There are many video clips included. Search for the timeline of your choice, browse topics or people, or play timeline trivia. Topics range from Mark Twain to Women’s Suffrage to The Beatles to Lord of the Rings (and countless others). There is a lot of information written in a clear, understandable manner. Plus, the pictures help tell the story of the timeline. You can also contribute by creating events, voting, commenting, and adding descriptions, photos, and videos to this site.
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Skills needed: To contribute to the site, you must register. Registration requires an email address. To add events to the site, locate the "add event" found at the bottom of the Timelines.com homepage. Follow the very clear (with samples) directions to insert your own event. Viewing the timelines is simple. Click to watch videos, view the maps, click “Like” or “Dislike” or make comments by clicking on the words.
Safety Concerns: Monitor what students are viewing in the premade timelines. Also, teach students appropriate events to include and check their work before having them submit work so that they are more accurate. Registration requires an email address. Create a free Gmail account to use for memberships. If you plan to have students register individually, you may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how to set up GMail subaccounts to use for any online membership service.
Possible uses: Use the timelines on the site in science class to help students understand the history behind discoveries that they take for granted, such as the the space race. Today's students have never lived in a world where traveling to the moon was not possible, and understanding the history of the event could be very helpful in understanding the magnitude of such an event. This site would also be useful in art or music class. Have students investigate the history of their favorite group or type of music and create a multimedia presentation to share with the class. How about a video (including music, of course). Share the videos on a site such as SchoolTube (reviewed here).
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| Jackson Pollack - Miltos Manetas - Grades 3
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Create your own piece of art using style and technique similar to Jackson Pollack. Click on the arrow to be taken to your blank canvas. Just click your mouse and watch the painting begin. Using your mouse, drag and click to disperse paint. Left click to change the color of the paint.
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Use this site as an anticipatory set on Jackson Pollack. Students can create a "painting" and share it with a partner or the class using a projector. Since the site paints via “mouse-overs,” it can also work on interactive whiteboards that use a special “pen,” but not on touch-sensitive ones, since these boards have no idea where your “mouse” is hovering. Research Jackson Pollack paintings and biographical information. Then go back to the site and have students again create a "painting" following Jackson Pollack's style. Have students explain why their painting follows Pollack's style. Create a class wiki to share paintings and explanations. Possibly compare these with images in other artist’s styles. Want to learn more about wikis? Check out the Teacher’s First Wiki Walk-Through reviewed here. |
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| The Abacus - Luis Fernandes - Grades 5
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This site takes students through the history of the Abacus across various cultures and time periods in addition to showing how to use an abacus for calculating math problems. Students can follow directions to make their own abacus. Click to practice using an abacus to solve problems in addition, subtraction, square roots, cube roots, and more. Explore some of the artistic renditions of the abacus as inspiration for a visual-artistic math project.
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This site would appeal to gifted math students. Have students learn about the abacus and challenge them to find another influential math tool. Ask your students to create a multimedia presentation from the information or demonstrate the use of an abacus on an interactive whiteboard. Challenge students to create a video and share using a site such as SchoolTube (reviewed here). Have students compare and contrast math tools using an interactive whiteboard. Have groups compare two tools using a tool such as the “Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram” (reviewed here). |
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| Bookr - pimpampum.net - Grades 0
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Teachers First Edge Review: For slightly adventurous technology users. Use this resource to quickly and easily create a book from a series of flickr pictures. Click on the fields on the front of the album to add a title and an author (both required to share the finished product.) Enter a flickr user name to view that user's (or your) entire album. Drag a picture into the field of the page. Change to full page for the picture or to create a border around the picture. Add or remove pages by clicking the + or - buttons in the lower right. Change pages by clicking on the lower right hand corner. When finished, click publish. Share your creation by entering an email address. Copy and save the url of your book to find later. Currently embed codes are not an option. This site does not require a login. Start over by clicking "Recycle" which will overwrite your previous album. Click "view archive" to view the albums of others.
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Skills required: Bookr is so easy to use. No registration required and albums are simple and easy to create. Be sure to keep the url of your creation to look at and share later. Be sure to check out this review to learn how to get your own collection of photos to use in your album.
Safety/security: When viewing albums created by others, keep in mind that there may be inappropriate materials, however, none have been viewed at the time of this review. Since Bookr does not collect information or require a login, this can be used by young students. Be sure to create a place to collect the url's of the created works to find easily later.
In the classroom: Use from Kindergarten to high school, including science concept tales, poetry books, general writing, math problem solve-its, and more. Use Bookr to create animal books, what I did last summer, places I would like to visit, vocabulary albums with definitions and related pictures, and more. Here is a link to a nice grade 1 example. ANY grade can use this tool, depending on the amount of direction by the teacher. Another idea, have students create personalized books for their parents or grandparents for special occasions (Mother's Day, Father's Day, or Grandparent's Day). |
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| Creative Sessions - Tuts+ - Grades 6
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Explore the world of graphic design and cartooning through mini-lessons on Character Illustration and Illustrative Lettering, and more. Click "Browse sessions" to see the latest offerings on this blog-style graphic arts site intended to help users of (expensive) Adobe creative software. You need not own the software, however, to click on images and explore a series of ten mini-lessons and galleries of images created by artists in the field. See inspiring new ways to create graphic fonts and artwork either on paper or using free digital paint tools such as Queeky reviewed here or Tuxpaint reviewed here.
Read the art concepts and try specific challenges to improve skills and refine your artist's eye. These "sessions" actually took place over a ten day period with professional artists participating and submitting work, but the archived results remain online. Note: Because the artwork is submitted by the general "artist" public, teachers would be wise to preview before sharing the site in class.
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Share portions of a "Session" on a projector or interactive whiteboard as the intro to an art lesson on text, fonts, or advertising. Share this link when students are creating their own digital comics in support of curriculum content in any class. Provide this link along with art options for student projects to address visual learners and feature visual/spatial intelligence. Art/digital arts teachers will want to share this link on their class web page as a student reference for working independently. Tech ed teachers will want to share the typography ideas and information from today's professional graphic artists. |
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| Making Glass Online - Making Glass Online - Grades 8
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This site offers the latest glass making techniques along with videos of the process. Learn the history and view step-by-step videos. Find information on glass blowing as well as marble making and stain glass making. The tools and materials needed for glass blowing are discussed as well.
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In Art, view the different techniques and the processes used in creating hand blown glass objects. In Science, discuss physical and chemical changes, melting and boiling points of glass and other compounds, how different elements and techniques can create different effects. Create informational posters or materials that can showcase different techniques, the science behind them, and some great examples that are works of art. Have your students create interactive online posters ("glogs") using Glogster EDU, reviewed here. |
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| Image Match - Triptico - Grades 4
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Image Match is an engaging interactive classroom tool and resource that challenges students to think creatively and promotes interesting group discussion. The objective is for students to select images that represent or symbolize categories that the teacher has designated. For example, the category could be characters from a literary work, themes, or important historical figures. Additionally, students validate their choices by explaining why they chose a particular image. The image bank consists of pictures that are open to interpretation rather than specific closed-ended images; therefore, encouraging critical thinking. To get started click on “Use the Resource.” Be sure to read the details of how the game and scoring work. The game requires that one team member (or the other team) not be able to see the initial image selections.
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This ready-to-use interactive white board tool has many exciting options. Introduce it to the whole class and share it as a review or to challenge students. Provide time for students to work in teams on individual computers to compete against each other. Then take it to the next level, by having students create the categories, either in class or for homework. This is a great favorite to share on your web page as a go-to activity when students are working in the computer lab and finish their assignment early. An extension would also be to have teams create their own collections of images using an online presentation tool such as Animoto, reviewed here or even Voicethread reviewed here and have classmates "guess" which character or historic figure he/she is alluding to. If you use Voicethread, other teams can "guess" by commenting. The social aspects of the discussion are vital, though! |
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| Go Animate - GoAnimate - Grades 9
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Teacher's First Edge Review: for moderate to advanced technology users. Use Go Animate
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cartoon type presentations. Students will have fun unleashing their imagination and delivering a message through creative animation.
Flash is required. Get it from the
TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
Here is a very simple animation example:
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Skills needed: Create an account to login, but use the application right away (without waiting for an email confirmation). Video tutorials are available, and many functions are easy to figure out once you play with them. Choose from many templates or start with a blank screen. Create your cartoon using Saturday morning cartoon characters or a variety of other characters such as presidents, commercial characters, and many others. Add your images, such as faces or background pictures and customize additional characters, sounds, etc. Control length of sections, voices and sounds, and delete or add sections through the time line along the bottom. Save your creation easily and share to your favorite social or bookmark site; copy a link to share with others, or copy and paste the embed code into your wiki, blog, or website. Creations are saved in your account online and can be kept private or made public.
Safety/Security concerns: Use Go Animate as creators have recognized its broad use in education and have created this education portal separate from the non-K12 world. Caution: check student creations during the process. Students will need an email address to create an account. Check your school policies about accessing/sharing student email on school computers. You may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how. Also check your district's policies on displaying and sharing student work. CAUTION! This site includes the ability for the general public to submit their own animations. Be sure to preview for content inappropriate for your classroom. You may want to limit use to whole-class activities or prohibit accessing the public portion of the site. The home page has loud music and links to many “public” animation projects, so firm policies and/or practices to avoid "exploring" these are vital.
Possible uses: Students can sum up debate ideas using animated characters or present simple concepts from researched material to introduce to the class. Students can tell book report stories, create fictitious stories or present ideas in a fun format. Challenge students to use this site to tell the history of political figures, historical figures, or historical areas. Use this site to teach about chemical properties, scientific figures or discoveries, or great moments in Science through animation. In language arts class, you can use this tool to apply concepts of narrative patterns or characterization. Teachers of gifted may want to assign students to create an entire animated series. ESL/ELL or world language students could create animations to practice their new vocabulary. Why not have students create a comic strip about their mom or dad for Mother's or Father's Day or honoring someone else special in their lives - - even the school custodian, nurse, or secretary!
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