Technology Tools to Assist my Lesson

Last night I attended a TIN PD.  TIN stands for Technology Information Night.  There were three presenters.  Each presenter talked about a different way to incorporate technology in their classrooms. The first presentation is related to a lesson I plan on teaching in my next placement.

The first presenters spoke about iMovie and how you can make not only movies but trailers.  We were taken step-by-step through the process of creating a movie trailer on iMovie.  This was really good because there are limitations when making a movie trailer when using the trailer function through iMovie.  The second presenter spoke about how he used movie trailers as a book report assignment for his grade 6 class.  Listening to the presenter speak about his experience was great for me because I intend to do a similar assignment with my grade 7 class in my next placement.  This lesson I have mentioned in previous blogs but once again, my students will be creating commercials to promote how they would like to make an impact in the world.  I recently found a book titled "Pay It Forward Kids".  This book will provide my students with current students around their age that have made a positive impact within their community.

To help along this project, today in my ICT class I was introduced to a site called "Inspiration" were you are able to create concept maps and graphic organizers.  This I plan to use as an activating strategy to get my students thinking about the different types of community involvement or ways to make a positive impact within their community.  This way students can become more familiar with deeds that may inspire them to develop what their commercial will be about.  As a class we will make a master mind-map, before they break into pairs/groups to begin creating their storyline.

Having the option of iMovie or iTrailer will allow my students to use the program that will best challenge them to create their final project.

I like that with this program these projects, with permission, can be exported and uploaded to the class website so that parents can see what their children are working on in class.

As this lesson comes together, I will keep you posted on how the students are enjoying the assignment and how the lesson is going overall.

~ Miss Laing