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“Directing” Education: Teaching Our Students How to Create Videos for EducationSession Description“Directing” Education is a BYOD session that will show librarians how to bring the use of technology into their library and especially into their lessons. It will focus on tools that will help children direct an audio or visual message using various tools available through the Internet or apps. Introduction (1:30)Good morning and welcome to this session, “Directing” Education. Firstly, my name is Erin Harcum and I’ve been in education for fifteen years now. I received my Master’s degree for special education from Old Dominion University in 2003. I actually started teaching in 2002 at the high school level, where I was for two years. I decided that I would rather teach at the elementary school level and switched when I saw the opportunity. I was in the elementary school for three years before I was moved to the middle school. I didn’t want to go, but I went and ended up loving it and I have been there ever since. I’ve been in all of the core classes at some point during my career, but I do have to say that I think my favorite is Language Arts. I am currently in my fourth semester of classes at ODU, working toward a Master’s in Library Science. I am married and have two children, but there are more animals in my household than there are people. We have six chickens, four cats, and two dogs. No, I don’t have a thing with even numbers; it just ended up that way.SlidePresentationTimeRunning Time1What I want to share with you today are ways that we can get our students involved with technology and creating videos; how we can get the kids to be the directors rather than us always being the directors. All of the technology that I’m going to share with you today is simple and easy to use. 0:302:002The first piece of technology I want to start off with is Voki. This is a tool that allows you to create audio recordings. Lets watch a short example of this before I go into more detail. 0:302:303Voki has a website online that allows you to use the product on any device. If you would rather, you can download Voki’s app on and Apple or Android device. With Voki, you are able to get a free account, which is always a plus. With the free account, you have access to various characters, backgrounds, and voices. You can record using your own voice, or you can type your message and an animated voice will speak the message you type. You can save your message as well as share it with others on social media.0:303:004As with all things, there are a few limitations with Voki. With free accounts, you are only able to record a 60 second message. Of course, if you pay for an account, you are able to get more recording time. The same goes for the characters and the backgrounds you get to pick from. The paid accounts give you more choices. There are still some choices that you can work with using a free account. 0:303:305While Voki is definitely fun to play with, there are educational uses for it as well. It can be used to give speeches, such as with a famous person like Abraham Lincoln. It can also be used with students to practice their reading. They can record themselves reading a few sentences and then listen to it play back so they can hear areas they need to work on. This is especially good for students who struggle with reading. The SOL I want to focus on right now, however, is a first grade reading SOL. It’s Oral Language 1.1, which states, “The student will continue to demonstrate growth in the use of oral language.” Bullet c goes on to say that the student will “participate in a variety of oral language activities, including choral speaking and reciting short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns. “ For the activity using this SOL, students will receive a poem to learn how to read. Students do not all have to get the same poem. Students can take a copy of their poem home to practice until they come back to the library again. When the students come back to the library again, they can then record themselves using the Voki program. Students can pick which character they want to be and what their background is. After all students have recorded their poems, the class can watch all of the presentations. These can also be used for Pre-K and Kindergarteners to listen to or posted on a website for parents to listen to.1:305:006Here is the URL for Voki. Let’s take about 10 minutes just to play around with the free version to see what it is like. Any age can use this technology; early elementary age to high school. It is a pretty easy tool to use.10:0015:007Alright, as you can tell, it can be kind of addicting to play with right?! Which character do I want to use, what accessories do I add, where is my character going to be? The kids will really get into their assignments with Voki.Does anyone have any questions about Voki?3:0018:008The second tool I want to let you know about today is Tellagami. Lets watch a quick example of Tellagami before we talk about it. 0:4018:409Tellagami is available as a free app, so you won’t have to spend money to purchase it. With Tellagami, students can create their own animated message. They will again, get to create their character and their background. A message can be recorded as well and the character can move around and have different expressions on their face. You are able to save your message and it will go to your camera roll and you can share your messages to social media. 0:3019:1010One limitation that comes with Tellagami, however, is that it is only available for Apple devices and it must be iOS 6.0 and up. Another limitation is that there are locked tools on Tellagami that are only available if you complete an in-app purchase. There is also an educational app available that comes without in-app purchases, but it is $4.99 to get the app.0:3019:4011Tellagami is a great tool to use at the beginning of the year to have students create introductions of them. Later on in the year, it can also be used to summarize a story that has been read or to create a book talk. Specifically, however, I want to focus on the physical science SOL 6. “The student will investigate and understand forms of energy and how energy is transferred and transformed. Key concepts include a) potential and kinetic energy.” With Tellagami and this SOL, students can create an animated message showing and explaining the differences between kinetic and potential energy. The video does not have to be long, but can show if the student understands the difference between the two. This app is pretty easy to use and can be used with elementary, middle, or high school students.1:0020:4012This tool does have a website you can visit, so lets take about 5 minutes to look around the site.5:0025:4013Does anyone have any questions about Tellagami?3:0028:4014The third tool, you may have seen or maybe you’ve even used these videos in class. I know I found videos created through it and used them in class, wondering how in the world I could create my own video. Well, now I know. The tool is called Powtoons. Lets watch an example of a Powtoon’s video. 1:0015With Powtoons, you will need to set up an account. You can get a free account, but you will need to create the account so you can log in and have access to your materials. With Powtoons, you are able to create animated videos. You might think you can’t do that, but you can! There are tutorials to help guide you through the process. I have tried it and you play with it over and over and you will get it. It gets to be kind of addicting actually. But, if you still aren’t sure of what you are doing, the site has a help center that you can chat with or talk to and they will help you through it.0:3029:1016I told you that you do have to sign up for an account. You can get a free account, but like with everything else, if you want more access, you have to pay for an account. They do have different packages you can pay for and of course the one you pay the most for gives access to all that they offer.0:3029:4017Of course there are many educational ways you can use Powtoons. If there weren’t, I wouldn’t be up here telling you about it. One idea is for students to use it to create a book trailer or a book review for other students to watch. A second idea is for students to create a teaching video to share with the class. Each student can have a different topic they are responsible for teaching and the way to present it to the class is through Powtoons. The SOL I want to focus on for this tool is a language arts SOL for 8th grade. The strand is Communication: Speaking, Listening, Media Literacy 8.1, which says “the student will use interviewing techniques to gain information.” Students will be required to choose a character from a book or story they have read and create an interview. They can do this paired up with another student, create interview questions and take turns interviewing each other as if they are the book character. They will then need to work together, to create a video of this interview to publish. As the librarian and since they will be doing this activity with you, you can easily get students to share their video with you so you are able to embed or link them to your website for parents to see.1:0030:4018Why don’t we take about 15 minutes playing with Powtoons. I’ll let you know when time is up playing with it because it is hard to break away from.15:0045:4019Does anyone have any questions about Powtoons?3:0048:4020The last tool I have for you today is one of my favorites. I just learned about it in my classes over the summer and I just can’t wait to start using it. We see it used every day and a lot of schools are starting to use it as well. It’s called the Green Screen. Let’s take a look at some students using a green screen. 0:4049:2021Looks fun and easy right? Well, it is! Of course, there is no site or app called green screen, but there is this site and app you can download called Do Ink, which is for the green screen. You will need an iPad or iPhone to use this app, but other than that, all you need is a green backdrop, which can be a green piece of bulletin board paper or a green sheet. It doesn’t have to be fancy and it doesn’t have to be expensive. While the product from the green screen can look expensive, it is actually a pretty cheap tool to use! The app itself is only $2.99. It isn’t a difficult tool to figure out how to use either. If you aren’t able to figure it out based on the instructions the app gives, it has tutorial videos available. With this app, you are able to find and save various pictures you may want to use as backgrounds. You can even find animated backgrounds to add to your video. 0:3049:5022The only limitation that I have noticed about Do Ink, is that it requires an Apple device. It is not available on Androids.0:1050:0023There are so many exciting activities and projects you can use a green screen for. Students could create their own news show and give news reports daily to the classrooms. They could also complete a research project and creatively give the report using a green screen. Looking at an 8th grade SOL, Communications: Speaking, Listening, Media Literacy 8.2, students could complete a book review report. The SOL states “The student will develop and deliver oral presentations in groups and individually.” For the book review, students will choose a book to read and then come to the library green room station on their own time to complete their book review. These book reviews can then be added to the librarians website so other students can watch them and determine if they want to try reading that book. While older students can use the app and green screen independently, younger students will probably need some assistance from an adult.1:0051:0024Here is the link to the Do Ink website. Let’s take about 5 minutes to browse the site.5:0056:0025Does anyone have any questions about Do Ink or the green screen?3:0059:00Conclusion (0:30) [59:30]We’ve learned about four different tools that everyone should be able to use in their library. They are all pretty easy to use and younger students as well as older students can use most of them. They all include a free account except for Do Ink, but there are apps available for the Green Screen that are free. I’m not sure how good they are to use, but I have seen some out there. I hope that everyone was able to learn something new that they can take back to their schools. Are there any questions about any of the tools that you may have? ................
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