tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47227132095222806022024-03-04T20:21:35.049-08:00EleSTEMtaryAdventures and misadventures of an Elementary teacher in this 21st century world! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15919100532440045379noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722713209522280602.post-81224650992058904242016-08-04T07:50:00.000-07:002016-08-04T08:06:58.433-07:00Top 10 Tech Tools - #4 - Green Screen by DoInk<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Everybody wants to be a super star right? Well with Green Screen by DoInk all your students can have the chance to be super stars while sharing what they have learned! Green Screen by DoInk is a super simple Green Screen app available for the iPad. It costs $2.99 and it's the best $2.99 you can spend for your classroom! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of my favorite parts about it is how easy it is to use. I love that I can quickly teach my 2nd graders how to use the app and then they are easily able to create amazing videos themselves. I believe that allowing students to be the creators truly empowers them and Green Screen by DoInk is so simple that it allows for this to occur. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As you can see, students are the actors, the producers, the videographers, and even the editors. These projects are completely student created! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My 2nd grade students have created green screen videos on animals, ocean animals, insects, dinosaurs, habitats, cultures, and more! You can have so much fun with this app! The possibilities are endless!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I like to give my students choice when possible. As culminating projects for units I often give my students several choices for their final projects. These choices include: written reports, posters, Pic Collages, Book Creator books, Google Slides, Thinglinks, Nearpods, and Green Screen movies. Overwhelmingly, Green Screen is almost always the most popular choice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An added bonus to students creating green screen videos is that they get a lot of fluency practice. As students write their scripts and practice them for their videos they are working on their fluency. Often times students will record their video and when they watch it back they reflect on their fluency, practice their script some more, and then re-record with improved fluency. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another bonus - teaching students about responsible use when finding background images. Using Green Screen by DoInk gives me the opportunity to teach my students about finding images that are labeled for reuse (I enjoy using <a href="https://creativecommons.org/" target="_blank">Creative Commons</a>, or using the Google search tools for this). This is an excellent lesson in being responsible digital citizens!</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Use a poster board and student created puppets with green straws</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Green screen books reviews</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take still frames and use as writing prompts (ex: If I was stuck in a snow globe...)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Character interviews</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Biography interviews</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Digital story telling</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">App Smash - Allow students to create their own backgrounds in Book Creator</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A year ago I completed and action research project on using technology to improve informational text comprehension. News-O-Matic was one of the tools I used (as was <a href="http://elestemtary.blogspot.com/2016/07/top-ten-tech-tools-8-pebblego.html" target="_blank">PebbleGo</a>). Check out the results here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Six and half hours or so is a long time for students, especially young students, to be in school. Research shows that movement and brain-breaks help students learn, focus, and retain information. <a href="http://gonoodle.com/" target="_blank">GoNoodle</a> is a classroom must have for teachers of young students! It is an amazing website that offers all different kinds of brain breaks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you open up your class GoNoodle webpage you open to a screen showing your class champ, his/her progress bar, and often silly things for your class to read that your class champ is saying:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are lots of amazing and fun channels to choose from for different kinds of brain-breaks/activities (favorites of my class include: Koo Koo Kangaroo and MooseTube):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another way to choose a brain-break/activity for your class is through the different categories of brain-breaks. You can choose based duration, energy level, and the different types of activities. Your class may need to calm themselves or maybe they need to move around for a bit - choosing by category allows you to choose what your class needs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The best part about GoNoodle is that is is FREE! There is a premium version that you can pay for which I have not checked out yet - but the features in this blog post are all FREE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am fortunate to work in a school district that has a subscription to PebbleGo by Capstone. If your school district does not have a subscription I urge you to beg and plead for one - trust me it'll be worth it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Upon signing in to PebbleGo the students are greeted with a friendly easily navigated homepage which displays the different categories (PebbleGo currently offers 6 categories - my district is subscribed to 5 of them).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of my favorite things about Epic! is that it asks students questions to figure out their interests, then it recommends books for students based on their interests! Talk about engagement! Even your reluctant readers will be excited to read books that interest them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many of Epics! books also have a "read to me" feature. These books can be read aloud to the students through the app. They are read in a nice "human" sounding voice. This is excellent for fluency and for your non-readers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But wait! There's more! One of my favorite features of Epic! is the search feature. Students in my classroom LOVED to search and read books about our content when they finished their work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Write About This is a visual writing and creation tool (App) for young students. The app includes hundreds of images with writing prompts ready to go. It also allows for the user to create their own image and writing prompt. Another great feature is the ability for students to record themselves reading their writing - this allows them to not only work on their writing but work on their fluency as well. The app is also very accessible even to the youngest students as the app will read the writing prompt to the students. There is a free version of the app available for you to try out - and when you fall in love with it - which you will - you can upgrade to the paid version of the app to access all the features for $3.99. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my classroom I have the students use the app once a week during literacy centers. Write About This is always my writing center activity. I allow students voice and choice and they choose the topic they wish to write about. They are also allowed to create a topic if there is something they really want to write about. The app offers an author gallery. I have never used this feature. Being that we are a Google apps school I simply have my students save their writing to the camera roll then upload it into their Google Drive account. By saving the work this way the parents of my students are able to see the student's writing when they sign in to their Google accounts at home. The students have a "writing" folder in their Google Drive. This folder serves as a digital writing portfolio. Throughout the year the students and I take a look at their digital writing portfolio. We look at the improvements we've made in our writing and we set goals for ourselves. This is a great way to get students to reflect on their writing. </span></div>
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