"ISTE's NETS for Students (NETS•S) are the standards
for evaluating the skills and knowledge students need to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly global and digital world. Simply being able to use technology is no longer enough. Today's students need to be able to use technology to analyze, learn, and explore. Digital age skills are vital for preparing students to work, live, and contribute to the social and civic fabric of their communities."
ISTE (2007)
The purpose of this professional development opportunity is to use technology that will build instruction modules in the area of writing and film in the Place Based curriculum from student experiences. To fully understand how to instruct student on how to use the iPad and editing tools in iMovie, teachers will film an interview of a civil servant in the community of our school. Using digital tools is the only true way of defining and eliminating barriers of success from the student experience.
Goals:
Teachers will
Demonstrate how to organize information the students as directors page worksheet by examining elements of film to communicate.
Demonstrate how to select writing goals to integrate into student’s digital project for planning and communication.
Demonstrate how to select NETS goals and define proficiency of that goal at a specific grade level.
Demonstrate how to edit film on the iPad.
This portion of the curriculumTeachers will embed their finished film on their blog and write a brief statement about the ISTE student standard they are working on. NETS for students that could be embedded could almost include all the standards outlined, it is the goal of this exercise to select three and write how the student demonstrates proficiency at a particular grade level. ISTE NETS for students
Each teacher will watch two other films and post suggestions about how the students experience could be improved on these elements from Troy Hicks Book on Digital Writing:
"Narration - does the video require narration? If so, who is speaking and what is the point of view?"
"Panning and zooming- How might a digital writer use these built-in effects for adding motion to photographs to invite us to focus in one detail or broaden our views?
"Repetition- How might a digital writer use the same image, sound, or transition to accentuate a particular point?"
"Time effects (fast-forward, rewind, slow motion) - How might a digital writer think about slowing down and speeding up time?"
"Film effects (sepia, black-and-white, and son on) - How could these filters be applied to flashbacks, flash-forwards, or alternate takes for dramatic effects?
"Transition (scene to scene)- How might fading to black, simulating a page turn, sliding across the screen, or using a jump cut contribute to the video's pacing and sequence?"
"Sound effects and music - How might a digital writer use sound effects or music to accent something from the text, signal a transition, or provide background noise?
"Captions and Text How can a digital writer use text- environmental text within the image/video, as well as captions, titles, thought balloons, and other textual features - to accentuate the story?" Hicks (2013)
Sharing experiences will strengthen our ability to educate with digital tools in more effective way.
(c) Wendy Kirchner, Building Writing Skills with iMovie
References
Hicks, Troy. (2013). Crafting Digital Writing. Heinemann. Portsmouth, N.H.
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), www.iste.org
