Commercials using Movie Maker

My 10 year old students were to take any commercial that did not deal with food and re-invent it to promote healthy eating. They were to make sure that there was a clear focus to their commercial. This media literacy assignment allowed the students to work cooperatively with others and to be creative. After completing a story board, they used digital cameras to record short clips and then used Movie Maker to create commercials. Using Movie Maker was everyone's first experience. As a class, we reviewed the assignments and discussed areas that needed improvement, such as timing, lighting and focus for topic. Some assignments are posted below.

Bitstrips--Comic Strips

Students wrote about a book that they read using Bitstrips.

Games-- educational

http://www.thekidzpage.com/learninggames/index.htm

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/

Virtual Posters

Some more completed posters that were created.


By: Melissa

By: Justin

By: Alondra

By: MaryKate

By: Hugo

By: Erik

By: Mark

ESL Games

English fun games for teachers and students.
http://www.eslgamesworld.com/

http://www.kidseslgames.com/index.html

Free Sound Effects

http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml

Literactive--Primary Interactive--and more

Many educators incorporate some kind of technology to engage student learning. With web 2 it is impossible not to find something on the internet that cannot be used to help support a teacher lesson or to engage students with an interactive activity. I decided to search for 'interactive literacy games' and I came across many great sites. You just need the time to peruse all of them. I did look at some and I found the following to be worth a visit
Language Instructions:

http://www.literactive.com/

htttp://www.roythezebra.com

Language Arts, Math, Science and more:

http://www.primaryinteractive.co.uk/english.htm/

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/

Resource for kids AND Interactive Games

Family Education Network
Info please is a reference site for kids. http://www.infoplease.com/

FE Kids http://www.fekids.com/kln/index.html

Virtual Museum

An interactive Canadian space: The Virtual Museum of Canada http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/index-eng.jsp

BBC--Learning School

Student interactive site/ subject information and tutorials http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/

Interactive Phonics--Starfall K-Grade 1

The Following site teaches children to read with phonics. http://www.starfall.com/ This is the classic site. You also have an option to click on their new site.

The Environment for kids

Sites for kids about the environment: http://meetthegreens.pbskids.org/

1. http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/greens/ (by kids for kids)

Shakespeare Videos

I was searching for a BBC video when I came across the BBC Shakespeare Animated Tales. Google video link has them all organized for you: Click on the picture for the link.

Videos

As I mentioned below about looking for the video The Raven, I found it on Dot Sub...any video any language website. This site is great. You can view, upload, transcribe and translate any video into any language. Read the tutorials to get a better understanding on how it works. http://dotsub.com/

The Raven--animated video

I was looking for a good quality video of the animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. I found The Simpson version on Dot Sub.
http://dotsub.com/view/58591756-7128-488c-bfe9-22463d46d907