6th and 7th Grade Week 8 Agenda Creative Writing 2009-2010

Monday, October 26, 2009

Step into the PhotoBooth:
Learning how to take video
clips and still photography

1. Login/Check Website/Journal
2. Checkin
3. Photobooth Introduction
4. Interview Video Clips
5. Save
6. Logout
7. Checkout
8. Dismissal

 

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

And Action: Recording
and taking photos in Photo
Booth

1. Login
2. Check Website
3. Journal
4. Check-In
5. Complete 30 second interview
6. clips with Photobooth (Students will
7. be asked to complete at least 3
8. different 30 second clips)
9. Saving Photobooth images and
10. movies to your folder
11. Rename files of images and movies
12. Save
13. Logout
14. Check Out
15. Dismissal

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Introduction
to iMovie

1. Login/Check Website/Journal
2. Check In
3. Why do people make movies?
4. iMovie Example
5. iMovie Introduction
6. Create a Project
7. Insert Titles, Transitions and
8. Photographs
9. Introduction to iMovie
10. Save your work and log out
11. of your computer.
12. Check Out
13. Dismissal

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Editing Audio
and Video in iMovie

1. Login/Check Website/Journal
2. Check In
3. iMovie Review
4. Insert Titles, Transitions and
5. Photographs
6. Insert Audio/Edit Audio
7. Insert Video/Edit Video
8. Edit Video
9. Save your work and log out
10. of your computer.
11. Check Out
12. Dismissal

Friday, October 30, 2009

Workshop and Review
in iMovie

1. Login/Check Website/Journal
2. Check In
3. iMovie Review
4. Edit Video
5. Save your work and log out
6. of your computer.
7. Check Out
8. Dismissal

What will you make your project about?

In Creative Writing, the two main things that are taught are the software programs iMovie (Windows Movie Maker on  a PC) and Keynote (Microsoft PowerPoint on a PC).
For this journal entry, write down what you would like to create a slide show and/or a movie about.

If you need ideas, check the ideas for projects tab above or click this link.

October 5-9, 2009 Agenda for 8th Grade

Monday, October 5, 2009

1. Login/Check Website/Journal
2. Check In
3. Program for Tuesday, October 6, 2009, Room 322 Creative Writing Gallery
4. Refer to website (2 minutes)
5. We will all check in. (5 minutes)
6. We will then all set our computers up and Post Project Signs
7. View the different groups’ projects and leave comments on Poster Project Signs (we will rotate every 5 minutes)
8. You will end up back at your group.
9. Finish Final Projects
10. Create “Project Sign”
11. Save them to YOUR folder
12. Keep files open
13. Do not log out
14. Check Out
15. Dismissal

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

1. Login
2. Open up your final project
3. Write your final Journal
4. Presentation of Gallery show will begin
5. Refer to website (2 minutes)
6. We will all check in. (5 minutes)
7. We will then all set our computers up and Post Project Signs
8. View the different groups’ projects and leave comments on Poster Project Signs (we will rotate every 5 minutes)
9. You will end up back at your group.
10. Final Check out
11. Dimissal

Wednesday, October 7, 2009/ 8th Grade/Session II Begins

1. Check in/Introduction/Seating Cards
2. Expectations of Room 313
3. Orientation to your iMac
4. Pages/Journal
5. Save/Logout
6. Check out/Dismissal

Thursday, October 8, 2009

1. Login/Check Website/Journal
2. Checkin
3. Photobooth Introduction
4. Interview Video Clips
5. Save
6. Logout
7. Checkout
8. Dismissal

Friday, October 9, 2009

1. Login/ Check Website/ Journal
2. Check-In
3. Complete 30 second interview clips with Photobooth
4. Saving Photobooth images and movies to your folder
5. Rename files of images and movies
6. Save
7. Logout
8. Check Out
9. Dismissal

Extra Credit in Ms. Juarez’s Social Studies Class

Extra Credit

Extra Credit

You can use your final project as a social studies project related to your social studies class.

Use iMovie or Keynote to create a project related to your studies of the American Civil War.
Some ideas.

Create a movie or slide show presentation about the Emancipation Proclamation.

Answer one of your social studies inquiry questions with a movie or a slide show presentation.

Ask Mr. Loreto or Ms. Juarez for ideas.

Project Option 1: Make a Movie

You can make a movie using iMovie.

You can a movie that does one of the following things:

• tells a story (like your journal entry about something that happened over the weekend)
• explains an idea or concept (like your journal entry for your dream school)
• expresses your opinion (like your journal entry for 5 things  you like)

Look at the requirements below for your project requirements (and here is an example)

iMovie requirements (must contain the following):

• photographs
• video
• audio (either music and/or narration)
• transitions between media clips
• titles including a title page and an end credits page
• must be 1 to 2 minutes in duration