It’s important to organise the information we share through our blogs to allow users to effectively access previous posts. Two ways to do this are through categories and tags – but what are they? How are categories and tags different and why should we use them? In the following video, Bec shares the different ways categories and tags make it easier to organise your blog’s content.
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In last Monday’s TLT, Bec and Clint showed us how to use Scheduling Assistant in Outlook to book a meeting. It is still a bit tricky when making a time with teachers, as class times do not currently feature in calendars, however, this is our recommended method for making a time to meet with specialists… such as Bec and I!
Sam
The ES are doing great things in Seesaw, including lots of student, teacher and parent activity. There are a range of different settings you can explore to find ways to customise the Seesaw experience to your class or grade level. In the following video, I’ll show you how to:
- Add specialist and co-teachers to class journals
- Edit students’ preferred names & icons
- Add parents & allow parent access
- Add/edit folders & skills
- Allow student comments & “likes”
We will continue to add Seesaw resources to the Ed Tech blog. In the meantime, please let Bec and myself know anytime you have a question or celebration around Seesaw or if there is another resource you think would benefit the school.
Sam
The following tutorial steps students through setting up a Story for a specific class in DX. Stories can only be set up by students and shared within your class. Sharing can be between you and the student, the student and selected students or between the student and the entire class. Content that can be shared using a story includes text, images, video, audio and other files linked from OneDrive.
How can I use DX Stories in my class?
- Stories can be useful when established as a journal, updated regularly by the student.
- They can be used as a way to collect and share ideas with the class.
- They can be used as way to receive feedback from the class when making decisions about a topic for further investigation.
- Digital storytelling
This tutorial will step you through recording your voice, using GarageBand, and adding loops for background music and sound effects.
How can I integrate Podcasts in the Classroom?
Here are some specific ideas for integrating audio recording into your curriculum:
- Students interview relatives about their life stories, and then combine the audio interview with family photos in a video project.
- Students write a radio drama based on a historical event and incorporate sound effects and music to enhance the story.
- Learn about different provinces in China by interviewing locals. Record the interview and then create a digital album showcasing that province.
- Students create an advertising campaign to highlight a current event in a persuasive manner.
- Write and record short stories and add music and sound effects.
- Teacher records a tutorial that students listen to on their own – share via DX and invite students to reflect on their learning in a discussion forum.
- Present a piece of writing as a class radio drama or a poetry slam.
- Teacher records and broadcasts group discussions – share with other classes discussing similar topics.
- Teachers might record students reading a story as a fluency assessment, or as a foreign language pronunciation activity. Students listen to their recording and self assess.
- On a field trip, students use an iPhone or iPad with voice recorder app to take notes and photos. They then create a guided tour using iMovie.
ISB gets very busy. This tutorial shows how you can have your various group calendars overlaid on your personal Outlook Online calendar.
Image Credit: Robeson Community College
Once you have chosen your poems to present, decide on what format you want to present your poem in:
- Kinetic Typography: Mother to Son by Langston Hughes | Video created by Christina Riley
- Narrated Visual Reading: Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein | video created by Wimbami Press
- LipDub (Here’s an example: Please Don’t Resist Me by Luka Lesson)
Decide on how you break up your poetry (you should have no more than 10-15 words per frame/slide.
If you are creating a narrated visual reading:
- Find one to three high quality image that represents your poem (please make sure it is landscape)
- Create credits like this for your last title page:
- Insert subtitles for the poem, please stick with the same font/color.
- Check timing of frames, to make sure there is enough to read the text for that image.
- Record your narration over the image.
- Share to file (include your name in the file name)
- Airdrop your file to Mr. Carter
If you are creating a kinetic typography poetry presentation:
- Open Powerpoint (Desktop Version) (Here a great tutorial here)
- Create a simple presentation with a solid background
- Create a few blank slides
- Choose the main font style you want to use.
- Copy and paste poem through separate text boxes on different slides
- Resize/move text and animate text boxes
- Play animations per slide to make sure they work the way you want them to
- Export presentation as .mov file (this make take some time, be patient!)
- Open iMovie
- Import .mov file
- Record narration over video
- Export movie file (File>Share>File), Use Medium Quality, Compress: Faster options
- Upload to Dragon’s Tube
- Embed on your blog
If you are creating a lipdub video for your poem:
- Film clips of people reading your poem (please hold your phone landscape) & consider the background and quality of your video
- Import clips into iMovie
- Detach the audio and delete the audio from the original clips
- Narrate you and your partners voices over the clip, carefully matching the lips/sound.
- Share to file (include your name in the file name)
- Airdrop your file to Mr. Carter
Most of us have used Powerpoint for a long time, but using the animation features to create a video, may not be Powerpoint skills you have (neither did we, until recently!)
Here is a great way to make an animated typography (also referred to as kinetic typography) video to present information.
Here is a great tutorial to get you started, but then use your own creativity to share your content in style.
Just don’t forget to apply the elements of design when you create.
For the Grade 6 Kinetic Poetry Project, follow these steps:
- Open Powerpoint (Desktop Version)
- Create a simple presentation with a solid background
- Create a few blank slides
- Choose the main font style you want to use.
- Copy and paste poem through separate text boxes on different slides
- Resize/move text and animate text boxes
- Play animations per slide to make sure they work the way you want them to
- Export presentation as .mov file (this make take some time, be patient!)
- Open iMovie
- Import .mov file
- Record narration over video
- Export movie file (File>Share>File), Use Medium Quality, Compress: Faster options
- Upload to Dragon’s Tube
- Embed on your blog
This tutorial shows how to add a photo gallery to a post on your school blog.
Here’s a quick video tutorial that shows you how to add a new category to your blog.
We use categories on ISB blogs to show what subject or course a blog post is for.
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