Above is a not so good attempt at a storyboard. I found several templates on line, many being PDF's and I settled on this for this post. It is not stellar and I apologize. I tried looking for a storyboard template on Google Docs and didn't find one that I liked.
This is the link http://www.frontoftherim.net/videos.html to my video that I created. I'll be honest, I created this video three years ago as an example of a "summer science" assignment for the beginning of the 2008 school year. 6/7/8 graders were to write about something that they had done in the summer and describe the science behind their summer activity. It was a writing assignment. I had surgery in June of the 2008 and I used that experience as my summer science and then I put together a little video w/different pictures and images. There is music as well, and I narrate the entire slideshow. This year I assigned the same assignment for the beginning of the school year, and instead of a writing assignment, I assigned a "summer science Glog".
The video, when I did it, received positive comments. Common comments suggested to improve the quality of the pictures and my narration was a little rough at times. I had the video posted on my original website and I now I have reposted it on my new website. I used a Windows Video maker to make the video in 2008 and I uploaded the finished product to Screencast. I had a lot of difficulty trying to upload the video this time to my new website and I don't know what I was doing to make it so difficult. When I was in Screencast, in my account, and I would try to copy and paste into my website, the link would take me to my personal Screencast page w/my profile information. I tried emedding the link and all of the other options before I finally downloaded the video file to my website. My site is powered by Weebly and I do have the pro account, so I did try to upload the video using their video upload. It worked, however, the size of the video was almost a thumbnail size and I wasn't sure how to make it bigger to fill the screen. So, like I said, I just downloaded the file.
My students, particulary my 7th graders have made and edited their own videos for a rollercoaster PBL that we just finished. Several of them made their movies w/the Ipods, Ipads and Iphones. The final videos were truly wonderful. I provided them very little instruction and just told them to go for it. They had some requirements as to the content but they know so much about technology as it is, they there finished products were really neat.
I do try to use and incorporate technology into all of my units. My biggest roadblock is being able to use the computer lab as much I would like and not having one/one computing in my classroom. We were allowing the use of handhelds for awhile this school year and have shut that use down, at least for now. I am hoping in time we can allow the students to use them again in class, because I felt that the students were much more engaged in the instruction when they were able to post comments in a back channel or some other similar format. I do miss that interaction and engagment. Another roadblock is time, the time to use all of the information that I have gained in just the last few months via this class and the Kevin Honeycutt presentation. Now that this is completed, the next time constraint will be science common core professional development!
B. Sack
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