Yesterday we had our department meeting and I taught my colleagues how to use iMovie to create digital story books. This was something that I learned from Dr.Marcovitz in class this summer. I had given my students the option of creating a digital storybook for one of their projects last month and was shocked by the fabulous projects I received. It was always a really easy way to give them a speaking grade, because they recorded themselves telling the story on each page of the book. genius!
I went through my PowerPoint to briefly introduce the idea and then showed my example that I had created for my students as well as an example of a student project created last month. My colleagues loved! I was so excited to teach them a new idea! The only downfall of this project is that it does take quite a bit of classtime to create the movies on iMovie and tape the stories. My students had a hard time taping their voices in a quiet spot because so many other students were talking and doing the same thing. Also, the other difficult thing is when they start creating the iMovie project on the laptop from the cart in class, they need to get the same exact laptop back the next day in order to continue where they left off, or they have to start all over. You can only "save" a fully finished and imported movie, which means it can't be edited at all anymore.
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