Kiva Project

We will begin our Kiva Project by researching information about the country of the entrepreneur from Kiva that you wish to sponsor. Next you will begin to create an i-Movie presentation which will hopefully persuade your classmates to vote for your entrepreneur. Below are the steps to creating your presentation. Use our Kiva wikispace for resources.

1. Research and chose your entrepreneur
2. Storyboard your persuasive writing
3. Collect pictures for your presentation
4. Place pictures on the i-Movie timeline
5. Record your voice and synch with pictures
6. Create a credits page
7. Add transitions
8. Add background music

Illegal Immigration Persuasive Writing Movie

You have read about the different points of view regarding illegal immigration, and now it is time to choose a side and write a persuasive piece which will be turned into a movie. Once you have finished the writing, you will storyboard it and decide which pictures will be used in which sections. Use the websites below to collect pictures for your movie.

Pixabay
Morguefiles
Wikimedia Commons

Next you will create a movie in iMovie complete with voiceovers and music.

Book Trailers

You have seen movie trailers from studios which advertise their movies. Now it’s your turn to create a book trailer, in iMovie, for a book you love! We will begin by exploring and watching book trailers created by other students and teachers.

Visit the LiveBinder for examples of Book Trailers by students and teachers and all resources for this project.

Next we will choose a book and write the script for the trailer. Use this Book Trailer Storyboard document to type your script. We’ll search for or take pictures and find music for the trailers using the resources on the LiveBinder. Finally we will use iMovie to put it all together and record the narrative. See my example below.

Do You Want To Be My Friend?

Today we will begin to work on our class movie based on the book Do You Want To Be My Friend? by Eric Carle. Each student will be either the mouse or one of the animals.

  • Read the book in class then decide how the animals might answer the mouse if they could talk.
  • Mice-Practice your line, then we will use the green screen to shoot you saying your part. Ms. Mellman will make mouse ears for us.
  • Animals- Practice your part, then we will use YakitKids to make the animals talk.
  • We will then use the Green Screen app to put it all together.
  • Finally, we will bring it into iMovie to add music and sound effect

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Kiva Project

We will begin our Kiva Project by researching information about the country of the entrepreneur from Kiva that you wish to sponsor. Next you will begin to create an i-Movie presentation which will hopefully persuade your classmates to vote for your entrepreneur. Below are the steps to creating your presentation. Use our Kiva wikispace for resources.

1. Research and chose your entrepreneur
2. Storyboard your persuasive writing
3. Collect pictures for your presentation
4. Place pictures on the i-Movie timeline
5. Record your voice and synch with pictures
6. Create a credits page
7. Add transitions
8. Add background music

Showtime!

The Kiva movies are complete! It’s time for the movie critics to rate each movie and choose their favorite. We will be using the rubric on the Kiva wiki to rate the movies. The highest rating movie will be funded. Click below to view the movies at our wiki.

Digital Storytelling: The Hand-Me-Down Project

We will begin to get organized for the big Hand-Me-Down Story Project. You have completed the first step of interviewing your family members to gather information about a story that is often retold at family events. The next steps include:

  1. Use Inspiration software to create a graphic organizer that will help you write the actual story.
  2. Collect pictures and scan them into the computer.
  3. Write the story in Word.
  4. Storyboard the story for iMovie
  5. Narrate the story in iMovie, arranging words, pictures, and music into a heartfelt tale.

Compliment Corner

Today is the day we will celebrate and share the Hand-Me-Down Project movies that you created. Leave a comment (complimentary, please) for each story on the author’s Compliment Corner page as you move around the lab listening to each story. Then visit Ms. Shapiro’s computer and add a comment about your thoughts on creating the project.

Hand-Me-Down Stories

Today we will continue to work on the Hand-Me-Down Story.

1. All pictures should be placed in iPhoto and merged into one event.

2. Completed your storyboard today, if you have not done so.

3. Open iMovie HD and create a title for your story in the editing section.

Digital Storytelling: The Hand-Me-Down Story Project

We will begin to get organized for the big Hand-Me-Down Story Project. You have completed the first step of interviewing your family members to gather information about a story that is often retold at family events. The next steps include:

  1. Use Inspiration software to create a graphic organizer that will help you write the actual story.
  2. Collect pictures and scan them into the computer.
  3. Write the story in Word.
  4. Storyboard the story for iMovie
  5. Narrate the story in iMovie, arranging words, pictures, and music into a heartfelt tale.