This summer, two of our Computer Technicians organized a summer computer camp for students entering 5th and 6th grade this coming school year. Students learned how to create their own movies and songs using Apple’s iLife software on the Macbook laptop computers. The students will take this knowledge into the new school year to create amazing projects for their classes!
This iMovie trailer was created by Bryce, and shows how you can use a combination of video, Photo Booth, and screen recording to create a great project.
Evan put together a compilation of failed stunt moves. He used iMovie to reverse and change the speed of video to add some humor and creativity to his project.
Kaitlyn Keller created a project in iMovie using themes and transitions. She also composed the background music in GarageBand.
Students also created songs and loops using GarageBand.
Mrs. Lynn Nestor’s first grade class used Flip video cameras to record each other’s animal reports. The students worked together to operate the cameras and record their speeches. They also created visual aids to serve as the background.
Mrs. Susan Knight’s third grade class used Photo Booth to record their food nutrition projects. First, they created Wordles to serve as the background. The class then wrote scripts to educate each other about different food groups and nutrition.
Mr. Chris Adam’s fifth grade class used Keynote to record and symbolize poetry. The students selected their favorite poem to read and found pictures to symbolize the poem as they recited it.
Thanks to our computer technician, Mr. Matt Ritter and our Instructional Coach, Mrs. Jane Brennan, for working with the teachers and students to create such great projects!
Recently, parents of students at Harry S Truman Elementary School had the opportunity to see examples of students learning at the annual Curriculum and Technology night. The featured projects below are from grades 1, 3 and 5
5th Grade – Dominican Republic
Fifth grade students at HST have been very busy working on a variety of technology projects to showcase their learning about the Dominican Republic for Diversity Day. Students created informational posters, newsletters, and brochures using Pages, Keynote, Garage Band and iMovie. These projects demonstrated student learning about the history, geography, economics, culture, and travel of the Dominican Republic. This year, our students utlized “green screen” in their movie projects. Students were able to import their own image in the foreground of the movie to appear as if they were on location in the Dominican Republic.
3rd Grade – Matter
Third grade students have been studying matter in science class. Each child created a keynote presentation describing the 3 states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. The slideshow consisted of at least 4 slides. The children then presented their slideshow orally to the entire class.
1st Grade – Mother’s Day
Mrs. Attar’s Mother’s Day Tea took place on May 9, 2012. Mrs. Attar invited her student’s mothers and grandmothers to attend. The tea started off having the students place paper corsages on the mothers as they entered the room. Everyone was then treated to hot tea, cold drinks and cookies. The students shared a Keynote presentation with the mothers in which students designed their own page on Keynote, writing why they love their moms. Miss Westfall, HST computer technician, helped record the students. After the presentation, everyone watched a short picture story “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch. Finally, the students sang 5 Mother’s Day songs and made a flower craft with the mothers as a Mother’s Day gift.