Digital Media with Students in Classrooms

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Digital Media with Students in Classrooms

• A scaffolding approach to getting media making
  and content creation into every teachers
  classroom.
• Version for Windows for Macs, consider iMovie,
  iPhoto, and Final Cut

Hall Davidson Director, Discovery Educator
Network http//blog.discoveryeducation.com/media_m
atters
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Begin Simple then Grow! This PowerPoint Walks You
Through

• PowerPoint insert movies
• Photo Story build movies from stills and create
  narrations and music
• Moviemaker build movies from other movies, add
  new narrations to instructional videos, edit
  clips
• Adobe Premiere Elements multiple track video
  creation, chromakey kids into videos

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PowerPoint Always put video clips into your
PowerPoint presentations for students. Students
should put media into their own PowerPoint
presentations, too.
Under menu, Insert gt Movies and Sounds Before
you build your PowerPoint, download your movies
onto your computer.
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Go to where you have downloaded your movies.
Keep your movies in folders by grade level,
subject area, etc. It will make things
easier! These movies are from Discovery
Education Streaming a great place to get
curriculum-based, standards linked media!
Note If titles are too long, PowerPoint wont
play them. You might have to rename them to make
them shorter.
http//streaming.discoveryeducation.com
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You will be asked whether you want the clip to
play automatically or when the presenter clicks
it. I prefer the contol of clicking on the video
to start, stop, and discuss it. Sometimes, you
make want the clip to start as soon as the slide
opens.
You can place more than one movie on a slide.
Play them in whatever order you choose.
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Some Final Tips PowerPoints dont have to be
linear. Movies or slides can link from keywords
or pictures, then return to the home page.
Click on Coral Reefs picture and you go to
Coral Reefs slide where the video plays. Click
on cell membrane and the video plays on this
slide. Same for cytoplasm, etc.
These PowerPoint examples are on the Discovery
Education training disc.
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Some Final Tips When you download your videos,
only take the segments you need. Lessons are
more effective with short video clips that relate
to the lesson you are teaching. Add some
hands-on activities that the video supports or
introduces. Segments from Discovery video
download page.
Video is more effective for teaching in short
clips!
If you dont have a Discovery streaming account,
log on for a free trial. Explore and learnfree.
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Some Final Tips There are step-by-step
directions on PowerPoint, editing, and other
topics in the Professional Development section of
Discovery Education streaming.
If you dont have a Discovery streaming account,
log on for a free trial. Explore and learnfree.
http//streaming.discoveryeducation.com
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Photo Story
One click is all you ever need.
Download Photo Story 3 free at http//www.microsof
t.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostor
y/default.mspx
Great online tutorial at http//jakesonline.org/
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• PhotoStory Five Simple Steps to Making a Movie.
• Import pictures
• Click import
• Navigate to where your pictures are
• Highlight them
• Click OK
• The pictures are pulled onto the timeline.

You can drag the pictures and change the
order Pictures from Discovery Education streaming
Click Next
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• PhotoStory Five Simple Steps to Making a Movie.
• Add a title
• Control font
• Control position
• You can put a different caption (title) on each
  picture. Or put none!

Click Next
Titles will stop camera movement on the slide
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• PhotoStory Five Simple Steps to Making a Movie.
• Add narration
• Click on the picture you want to narrate
• Click the red button to start
• Click square to stop
• Do this for each picture you want to narrate

Click Next
Before you record, type notes here to help your
narration.
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• PhotoStory Five Simple Steps to Making a Movie.
• Add music
• Select music from the music library on your
  computer
• Create your own music
• Preview and adjust music volume. It shouldnt
  overpower the narration

Navigate to your music library
Opens a wonderful, mood-drive music creation
tool. Play around with it.
Click Next to continue
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• PhotoStory Five Simple Steps to Making a Movie.
• Save the project as a movie
• Most times, this option is what you want
• Options include sending movie in email, pocket
  PC, or mobile players.
• Name your project
• Browse to where you want to store it.

Here is where the movie is put on your computer
Click Next and your movie will be created
This creates a wmv movie file. If you want to
move these movies into an iPod via iTunes,
convert them to Quicktime.
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PhotoStory Five Simple Steps to Making a
Movie. Your project has been created. You are
ready for another Photo Story movie
The Photo Story wmv movie files are peculiar. If
you want to move them onto online libraries, see
them on a projector, and other typical uses, you
may have to import it into Movie Maker and save
it again. You can also convert it with ImTOO.
Make sure you have the rights to any material you
convert.
Imtoo.com
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Add new student-created soundtrack to a video.
Movie Maker
Movie Maker is the free movie making program from
Microsoft.
Download Movie Maker 2.1 at http//www.microsoft.c
om/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
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• Movie Maker Import Import a video, still image
  or sound file
• Under File choose Import into Collections
• Navigate to the video, still image, or sound file
  (including music)
• Highlight files and click Import

This video is an editable clip from Discovery
Education streaming
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• Movie Maker Build movie
• Drag media into timeline
• Change the order by clicking and dragging
• View the video in the window

Timeline
This video is an editable clip from Discovery
Education streaming
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• Movie Maker Adding a new narrations
• Click on the clip in the timeline
• Under Clip gt Audio gt Mute

Mute the original sound track and replace it with
student narration.
This video is an editable clip from Discovery
Education streaming
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• Movie Maker Adding a new narrations
• Click on the microphone
• The record controls will appear
• Use the controls to make a new narration using
  the microphone in your computer or a USB or
  multimedia microphone
• The recording will be saved. It will then appear
  in the timeline on the Audio/Music track

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• Movie Maker Save the Movie
• Save the file
• The default settings are fine for most uses

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• Movie Maker More features
• There are other controls for editing
• The video effects include black and white, color
  changes, and some very interesting other effects
• Transitions include wipes, dissolves, and many
  others

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Some Final Tips There are thousands of editable
clips in Discovery Education streaming. Search
for them using Advanced Search Discovery
Education streaming is a for fee service of the
Discovery Channel
If you dont have a Discovery streaming account,
log on for a free trial. Explore and learnfree.
http//streaming.discoveryeducation.com
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Adobe Premiere Elements
Adobe Premiere Elements This is video editing
program with multiple video layers. It allows
you to put students directly into the video.
Movie Maker and PhotoStory are free programs from
Microsoft. Premiere Elements is software you
must buy. There are educator prices for Adobe
Products. Check with your software purchaser or
go to www.adobe.com
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Adobe Premiere Elements From the opening screen,
click Get Media to bring in video clips. Bring
in the video you want to put students into and a
video of the students in front of a single
colored wall.
For the single colored wall, you can use
construction paper, fabric (WalMart sells some),
or a nearby painted wall. Use a color with no
flesh tones. Green and blue work best, but other
colors can work, too
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Adobe Premiere Elements Put the original video
on layer Video 1. Put the video in front of the
colored wall on layer Video 2
Click on Effects in the main menu. This will
bring up the Effects menu. You will use the
Chromakey effect.
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Adobe Premiere Elements In Effects, type
chromakey in the search box. The Chroma Key
effect will appear. Drag the Chroma Key box onto
the clip with the colored wall Click on Edit
effects
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Adobe Premiere Elements The Chroma Key effect
control box will appear. Click on the eyedropper
then click it onto the background color Adjust
the controls until the background color goes
away. You will see the video on layer 1 show
through.
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Adobe Premiere Elements You have now inserted
students into the video. Share it as flash,
QuickTime, or Windows media file. Now you can
put it into PowerPoint or show on its own. You
can also tape a new narration and edit out
existing sound.
In order to see the video you are working on,
drag the indicator to the spot you want to see.
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Watch your students create content with Digital
Media

• A scaffolding approach to getting media making
  and content creation into every teachers
  classroom.
• Version for Windows for Macs, consider iMovie,
  iPhoto, and Final Cut

Hall Davidson Director, Discovery Educator
Network http//blog.discoveryeducation.com/media_m
atters