Filming and Aviary
Today we filmed our videos for the Summer Tech Commercials. The kids took Screencasts of some of their projects and tomorrow they will start creating their projects.
After break they played with Aviary.com. The website is a multimedia creator. Students produced their own music, recorded their voices, and edited pictures for another iSpy competition.
Monday – Begin Multi Media
Links for starting multi-media!
More Augmented Reality: Collector’s Cabinet from the Getty Museum
Lots of fun today! Check out Amanda’s and Gaurang’s websites for the work they created.
Join Us on Friday at 11:30 for our Showcase. The kids will be sharing their creations from the past two weeks.
Friday of Week 1- WOW What a Week!
The following list is everything we explored and played with this week:
Photo Booth
Power Point
3d Augmented Reality – Living Sasquatch
Wii
Word Clouds – Wordle and Tagxedo (Gutenberg Project)
iSpy Challenge
Lego Mindstorms
It has been a fun and exciting week. Each kid in the workshop created their own websites to record what they created and learned about this week. This weeks focus was “tech-sploration”. Each website and software program we used involved creating virtual projects. Students learned how to create virtual worlds using Phun. They began to explore programing with Lego Mindstorms. Overall, their favorites have been building the websites and altering images using Picnik. Check out their work below:
Dhruv
OH and the winner of the iSpy Challenge is:
Amanda!
Life is a Picnik – iSpy Challenge
Today we played around with Picnik an online photo editor. The kids uploaded pictures of themselves or they found online and “improved” them. The creativity was amazing! We will share them tomorrow. The iSpy challenge winner will receive a “valuable” prize for their work.
Watch the blog for the winners tomorrow.
We also played with 3D Augmented Reality using Sketch-Up and Living Sasquatch. Several kids created videos of their Sasquatch and posted the links on their website.
Finally we began playing with Kerpoof an online movie creator and photo editor.
July 13th, Wednesday
We are finishing our google earth exploration today!
We are going to find the shipwreck of the Titanic as a group, then you will have to find AT LEAST one, more if you want, of the following things and take at least two interesting screen shots (hold down “control, command and 3″ at the same time and wait for the click).
3D view of the deepest part of the world – copy and paste the words ” Mariana Trench” into the finder and make sure you have 3D buildings layer on.
The S.S. Jassim, a Bolivian cargo ferry, ran aground and sunk on the Wingate Reef off the coast of Sudan in 2003. Now it’s one of the largest shipwrecks visible on Google Earth. Type “Wingate Reef sudan”
into the finder and zoom in on the northern section of the dark colored reef.
To sea America’s largest collection of shipwrecks copy and paste “Mallows bay, MD”. It looks like more than 20 old ships have been sunk here!
To see a beached super ship copy and paste in “Nouadhibou, Mauritania” and scroll a little bit south to the tip of the land and look for the big dark spot.
Click on the planet icon on the top tab and select Sky.
Use the finder to location at least one of the following things:
Any Planet: Mars, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Uranus (no pluto)
Any nebula: Crab, Rosette, HorseHead
Other Galexies: the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy
And even weirder stuff: Kepler’s Supernova Remnant
And then try typing in supernova, blackhole ect and find some of your own!.
First Day – Build Your Own Website, Photo Booth, Intro to Power Point and Voki
What a great start! We started the day with an introduction Power Point. Each workshop participant took a picture of themselves with Photo Booth and uploaded it to Power Point. After sharing the kids began building their websites. Each student will record what they do each day. They also built Voki’s to share what they learned each day. Below are the links for each page. Watch their progress throughout the workshop!
http://www.wix.com/summertech/gaurang
http://www.wix.com/summertech/ankit
http://wix.com/summertech/amandas
Classes Begin July 11th!
Hello Everyone!
Due to low enrollment we have consolidated all of the classes to the Weeks of July 11th and July 18th. There is plenty of space available!
Contact
Carla Fitzgerald (cfitzgerald@billerica.k12.ma.us) or Kyle Taylor (ktaylor@billerica.k12.ma.us) if you are interested in signing up!
Summer Tech 2011
summertech signup final sheet, click to download.
Instructor Bio’s:
Kyle Taylor: I am currently the 6th grade instructional technology teacher at the Locke Middle School. I grew up in Amherst, Ma and have several years experience working in a therapeutic “integration” program in the elementary schools there. Before coming to Billerica I was teaching Geography at Holyoke Community College.