We'll meet for our last iLife PLP from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. at Eastern Middle School on Wednesday, March 18th. We will be looking at iMovie, and here is a wonderful example from Greenwich's very own Chris Harris, the MTA at Hamilton Avenue. I asked Chris about how he did it and he explained:
Linda Swenson writes: Chris, I loved it. May I link it to my blog for the PLA iLife participants?
YES
What did you do to change the song?
We had to go to a choose a song by an independent artist, who has open an copyright permission. The original song was a Song By Stone Sour. The record company gave permission to use in the school but could not put in internet, so we went to macjams.com and found a song by a independent artist who wants their music to be used.
What kind of video camera do you have? Did you use iMovie (which version)?
I used an old Canon Mini Digital Camcorder, it eats tapes, but has a firewire connection, so we connected directly to a laptop and recorded directly to iMovie.
And this with everything else going on with Ham Ave! Wow!
Thanks!
Check out Chris' post:
HAS Kids Against Bullying
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Our Next iLife PLP is Wednesday, February 18th
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
All I needed was a day or two off so I could put together this blog for our class. Typical, right? We want to use technology in our classrooms or media centers, but it takes days to piece it together, and I'm talking uninterrupted time here! There is little opportunity in the school day for learning, creating and troubleshooting. So, what I'll try to do for our sessions is roll out a few basic projects that we can do immediately. That will be our jumping-off point, and then we can look at some examples from other schools to pique our interest and plan our next class. The next class on February 18th we will start with iPhoto, so try to bring a disk or portable drive with 12-15 photos.
The books I mentioned in the first session are posted on my book shelf to the bottom right of this page. I added one I did not show you in class, SLIDE:OLOGY by Nancy Duarte. While it is written with Powerpoint in mind, the principles apply to any visual presentation and I found it helped free my thinking from producing text-reliant projects.
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