Here are the thoughts from my rambling mind today:
Create: The doing demands challenges and creative thinking for students :-)
Last week Natalie and I saw the blog post of a boy who used his knowledge to create an ANZAC scene and acted out the 'life of a soldier'. It was clear that as he was acting out he was using the knowledge he had, but he was learning too.
Here is what I have learnt today:
- Google Drive is the default for students to video themselves ( I knew that but thought its a good reminder to have it here).
- Use You Tube channels for over 13 year old students only.
- When making a YouTube video make sure that it is unlisted which means others can't search for it. Then the video can only be accessed via a link.
- Turn commenting off for the YouTube videos.
Setting up the account was awesome!
YouTube! I have sooo many playlists but they were not set up properly, neither were my YouTube settings - thank you. Now I am inspired to go and make some videos.
Videos - students need to be entertained and learn at the same time - Sisomo - Sight, Sound, Motion
Get a tripod!
Elements of media
Recording videos with your phone - always in landscape when videoing (I always forget that).
We video is something I might use, I have used green screens in the past and made videos for a school TV channel and it was so much fun for both the students and myself. I think that I will be looking into doing this again. We have just done some report writing in class so a perfect opportunity to record some videos using the reports as scripts.
Live Streaming - YouTube, drone, /Google Meet
Live Stream sports events -Fusion can support... wow! This has so much potential - imagine streaming Cross Country to parents who cannot attend.
Film Festival - 3mins max video time - there are a number of film festival opportunities out there:
Podcast - comes to you, an Audiofile does not.
Chromebook Apps:
Music lab
Online voice recorder
Google slides
Screen castify
- I want to make a money video as I could not find a good NZ one on YouTube.
Google Draw
What size is best for A5 or A4 paper? or for Blogging?
Using a png means there is no background or you can use : https://www.remove.bg/
Google Slides
- Some tips and tricks for creating a LCS
- Drag and drop
There are two options for drag and drop Google Slides
- Students do the activity
- Students create the activity to show their learning
Dragging stacks of objects is handy for when you want students to drag a number of items in a Google Slide. This makes me think about the money video and to match it I can do a money activity.
- Select group of images - arrange - align to the centre, middle
- One way for images to be fixed and not move around when other things do need to be moved around is to create your images or forms - take a screenshot and then insert the screenshot as your background.
As most techies know there are some things we want our technology to do for us that it cannot do just yet or is not part of the programming. In this case we need to think outside the box and find solutions to make the apps work for us!
Once my video and DLO are finished I will post them to my blog.
