[eMINTS] Movie Maker in the classroom

[Liscombe, Eleanna L.]

We just had our session as well.  My kids were in the middle of the "Day
in the Life of a Water Droplet" webquest from the eMINTS website and
were getting ready to write a 5 day journal about their experience in
the water cycle and through the different states of matter.  I decided
to let them make a movie instead.  

I first showed them a movie I'd made about my vacation.  Then, we
storyboarded my movie.  (Kind of backwards design....so they could
understand really what the different sections of a storyboard stood
for.)  Then, I had them complete 2 slides of their own movie on a simple
storyboard I made in Excel.  After 2 slides, I taught the basics of
Movie Maker and let them explore and experiment.  (My trainer had
created a file full of water/rain photos and music from the web for them
to import.)  Now, since they have a well rounded knowledge base of the
capabilities of MM, I'm going to have them finish the storyboard, using
a rubric from the webquest, and then create the movie. J


Eleanna Liscombe
3rd grade eMINTS teacher
Harvest Ridge Elementary
http://harvestridge.fhsd.k12.mo.us/eliscombe
"We are preparing students for jobs that don't exist yet." -D. Warlick  


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