iMovie - Finishing up the assignment

You've finished the first portion of the iMovie project - creating a digital story. So, you've learned the tool, but we haven't yet talked about how this tool can assist in the teaching and learning process.

There are multiple examples of teaching with digital video and still images. Let's view a few of them:
Watershed Documentary - High School Science
A Living Alphabet - Elementary Language Arts
Meet the Artist - Middle School Social Studies and Art

You can view many more lesson ideas/student examples at the Apple Learning Interchange.

But creating digital video and still imagery is more than just a digitized retelling of facts. You can use images to help students with problem solving and decision making -- these would be LoTi levels 3-5. What standards in your content area lend themselves to digital images? What learning styles can be supported by the use of digital images? What teaching strategies can be supported by using digital images? Does it matter who is creating the image - the teacher or student? Does it matter as far as LoTi levels? Learning?

For Thursday:
1. Review the iMovie project description. Completing the movie with your group was only half of the project.
2. Create a new webpage called: digital images
3. On your new webpage, write a brief description of the iMovie that your group created and provide a link to the movie.
4. On the same webpage, list 4 examples of teaching/learning with digital images. Include a mix of video and still examples. Use screen shots and descriptions to tell about your examples. You can do a search with the phrase "teaching with digital images" and you'll find a wealth of resources, or you can search the Apple Learning Interchange site for your 4 examples.
5. Also on that same webpage, write a reflection on the process of developing digital images for teaching and learning. Talk about what you have learned and how the examples you found can be used in your subject area/grade level. Make sure to discuss examples of teacher and student use of the tools.
6. Review student samples from Maymester to get an idea of the types of things you can write about. Just remember that the video portion of the assignment was different during Maymester but the reflection portion of the assignment was identical. Make sure that you are not plagiarizing another student's work - but you are using their work to get an idea of what is expected for this assignment.
7. Publish your page. You will not need to send the address to me via email - I can access it via your other pages already created.
8. Please note that I have been extremely lenient about late work so far this semester but I will not continue to do so. Without a late pass, this iMovie assignment will not be accepted after 10:30 on Thursday, June 22. That means that your page should be uploaded correctly with the information described in the project description. You should not be working on the assignment at the start of Thursday's class or asking for assistance in the web page development process. If you have questions about the assignment, they should be addressed well before 10:30 am on Thursday.