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iPad with Do ink Green Screen App & iMovie
Green screen (Curtain fabric) or these little beauties... http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50295288/ A Space to work in, some hooks and green tape to stick things together, should we need to...
Throughout all of KS2, all classroom doors have 2-3 hooks above them to allow for 5 green screens to be created within each year group area. The screens can come up and be stored carefully in a matter of seconds and provide the opportunity to do some photo editing (see Photoshop Mix) as well as video editing. There are plans afoot to paint a part of the wall and put down a large (green) rug in the school to create a green screening area... We'll keep you posted!
Our Journey so far!Nursery
As part of a project for Handa's Surprise, the nursery area had it's very own green screen put up at great expense... 5 whole picture hanging hooks and two 15Dhs shower curtains! (I even threw in a green box to store them in, which in itself could come in handy!!) I had planned on creating a more professional area for green screening, and might still do, but for now this is the perfect quick fix for anywhere in the school! The teachers were brilliant in their use of their iPads and took to filming their children and using the green screen features to teleport them to a scene in Africa. The children themselves were delighted and then had some of their 'modelling catwalk struts' uploaded onto SeeSaw, which gave them a place to store content and to share with their parents safely and securely. It also gave the children a GREAT starting point for discussion and placed them firmly at the heart of the book. (SeeSaw - I talk about this amazing app/service later on in the blog, Shameless link/plug).
The picture below shows the screen itself, and I'll put a few examples of the videos created on here just as soon as I can. Year 4
As part of a project on saving Endangered Animals, Year 4 used the iPads and Green Screens to create a persuasive advert to encourage people to stop hunting and killing endangered animals.
The research done to create these was very good from the children and they really thought about the language features they would use to make it convincing. It was our first go and we soon realised that when working at the same time as other year groups, and when recording in full frame quality, we would quickly run out of useable space on the iPads - cue lots of frustration. We got around this by reducing the video quality and systematically deleting video or content that were 'mistakes'. We were also able to save aspects onto our dropbox accounts, although in the time constraints of lessons this proved to be problematic, as was accessing or uploading the videos afterward. I soon realised we needed a much more efficient way of saving and accessing the work for everyone concerned, and that a shared area accessible to all is something that we needed badly in the future. (well... yesterday really, but you know what I mean!) Below are a series of videos that I created to help structure the lessons, have a look and see if they're of any help to you in creating things... I think I confused things by alternating apps along the way, but certainly this multi app multitasking is a skill that can easily be mastered by those digitally savvy children... of which there are many!
After doing the unit in the first term, the children left at the chance to act in front of the screens again to deliver their Humanities content, shown in the very entertaining videos below!
Year 5
Year 5 had a ball using the green screening technology and adapted really quickly to its use. The examples below show the content they were able to produce and their levels of enjoyment and enthusiasm seemed always very high when I observed them at work. (Particularly when they showed visiting children from the Japanese School how to use it!)
I think it's a fantastic tool to put the children at the heart of a scene, or to role play and excite the children. the links to Geographical and Historical application, as well as the link with english, give the opportunity to really enhance their learning experiences, and should be something each year group attempts at least once a term!
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AuthorWith the computing curriculum becoming more about coding, creation and collaboration over the basics of word processing and document making, The curriculum we deliver needs to change. Here you can see what we are doing to work on and develop this using what we have available to us. . Archives
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