Lights, Camera, Action!
In the create process it's an opportunity for us to pass on our knowledge and inspire our learners to create exciting things to share like blog posts, a poster, a painting, a song, a letter, a story, a dance, baking, knitting something and even voice recording.
The most important thing I learnt about the Media is that it is all about the SISOMO - Sight, Sound and Motion. Using these 3 important concepts enhances our imagination, influences our innovation, and drives us to pay attention to detail to make connections.
I believe it is imperative that we as educators get into this habit of scaffolding new creative ideas and developing those creative ideas to empower students to feel confident in developing their skills in their creations, and to take ownership of their own creative master pieces.
It's a given that creating takes time to learn and develop new ways of sharing things, so it's important that lots of time during the week is set a side and given for students to produce their own creative ways of sharing their learning, after all, Rome wasn't built in a day.
I created this amazing piece of animation with the instructions from my wonderful facilitator Nicola:
For my very first time, I am pretty impressed with myself on this one. Who would have thought that you could make a great animation with Google Slides and have fun doing it too! I'm definitely going to introduce this my capable students and see what they come up with.
Another piece of information I found very useful, was that Youtube is a maze of madness if not used wisely! We need to ensure the content we link and provide is appropriate for our students, especially if they are watching a selection of videos from a channel they have subscribed too.
And, (this is a big and), if they have their own channels, (those who are 14 and up, or have parent consent), we also have to ensure that our students are being cyber smart when posting content on Youtube. So much travesty for such a very popular website!
I recently found that embedding the videos directly from Youtube into the class site, reduces the tendencies that our students have to go off task and click on other videos. No more adding links to Youtube on the class site for me!
Just because I can, I've embedded one of my favourite animated videos from Youtube.
Watch at your own dispense:
Well that's all from me today.
And, if you have reached this point, you are a legend! Thanks reading!
Stay tuned for the next post!
Tino pai Nicky. I'm glad you're so passionate about creativity. I've definitely realised how important it is to me personally over the past few years. I'm really interested to see how we can nudge students so that their creations can be used to teach other students. Do you know how to speed up your animation so that the slides flick though quicker?
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the positive feedback. Now that you have mentioned it, I am starting to think how the students creations can be used to teach each other. I was wondering how to speed it up also, but I have not found out how yet. Do you possibly know how?
Hmm, I'm not sure I can work out how to go quicker than one slide per second. I will try and find out. You could always make a screencastify of your slides with you flicking through them with your arrow keys.
DeleteKa pai Nicky. What a great blog post. In answer to your question about speeding up your animation, go into the HTML code and the default setting is 3000 (which is 3 seconds. You can make this number smaller to go faster or bigger to go slower. Let me know in our digital bubble on Friday if you need more support.
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Kia ora Nicky, what a fabulous post and your animation is delightful. I do hope you post a followup sharing some of the DLOs your students create.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for sharing the YouTube at the end- I had not seen that and it is a keeper.