Creating Reading Corner QR COdes

Hey all, after Jodie's amazing QR work lots of teachers are wanting to have a go at creating their own QR codes. I will post the instructions below, I suggest create a folder in Dropbox and shrae your QR codes so that everyone is creating links to different book. That way we can build the resource collection across the 3 schools.

Step 1. Find the Youtube clip you want to share. 

2. Copy the link and past it into the website : http://safeshare.tv/. This will remove the links to other videos on the side and comments section. 

3. Copy the URL from this site and paste it into the blank line on http://www.qrstuff.com/

4. Download the QR code and paste it in a document with a photo and heading. On the iPad PicCollage is an easy way to do this. 

Green Screen

We have all seen the movies where the magic of special effects and technology allows directors to superimpose their actors onto virtual backgrounds, place them over animated digital backdrops or transport them to a previously filmed location.

Now we can do the same in the classroom, this allows students to create presentations/ movies where they are placed in a foreign place or time.

On the iPads:

1. First you need to download the Green Screen App: $3.79

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/green-screen-by-do-ink/id730091131?mt=8

This does not need to be installed on all iPads, as most schools only have one green screen( although a piece of material or cardboard pinned to a pin up board will work fine), a nominated iPad or Teachers device would work perfectly. 

2. Next step is to download an image or take footage for the background. 

3. Set up the iPad so that the Green material covers the whole screen (we used a beaker stand from the science room as a stand.)

4. In the top Line add your background image, in the middle line add your Green screen footage. 

5. Once you have filmed and checked your footage you can export it to the camera roll. Once it is in  the camera roll you are able to add it to iMovie and create titles and headings. 

Work Flow for creating a QR Code on the iPads.

Work Flow of creating a QR Code:

Firstly create your video.
Today we are using Chatterpix to make our orange speak.

1. Once you have created your movie in any application you need to export it to the Camera Roll ( or you can export it straight to Dropbox if the application has that feature)

2. Open Dropbox - Add the video to dropbox

3. Click the "up arrow" on the right hand side and click "Copy link"

4.  Open the App "Qrafter"

5.  Click "Create" at the bottom of the screen. 

6.  It will create a unique QR code.

7. Press the "up arrow" icon to save the image to the camera roll. 

 8. Insert the image into Pic Collage to add headings, words, pictures...

9. Add the collage into Dropbox and print from your computer. 

Week 1 Term 2 lessons

Welcome back to term 2 everyone,

Todays lessons were great.
Debs class are creating a slideshow of letters in "30 hands". Students are drawing the letters and recording their voice on each slide. Students are building up to be able to do this independently and the aim is to create enough slides to cover the whole alphabet.

Deb -  the App we discussed was "Chatterkids", this is a free app that allows you to add a mouth to an image. The mouth moves when the student adds their own voice to it.

Hayley's class were learning about ANZAC day, students were introduced to "Book Creator" and drew pictures depicting part of the ANZAC story. The next step was to add audio to the page and describe any information they knew about ANZAC day. 

Alison's class also used "Book Creator" today. Students took a photo of a picture they had drawn recounting their holidays and cropped the picture to exclude the writing.  Students then added a typed heading and narrated their recount. 

Sarah's class used "Pic Collage" to explore synonyms relating to emotion. Students took photos of themselves showing a specific emotion and added text. 

These were transferred into dropbox so that they can be printed and displayed around the classroom  as a writing prompt. 

Harmony Day / 19th March

Overall everyone is  super keen, with amazing ideas. Most teachers are working along similar ideas and everyone is finding it easier to allocate students certain iPads, so that all their work can be stored in one place. The idea of creating a book in Book Creator that holds all the students is great and will help with sharing this work with parents.

I have put some information about Padlet, a website that students can collaborate on in the resources section of this site. Jude and I were discussing it yesterday.

Em

Week 6 Classroom Lessons

Hey FLDC crew, 

Again massive thank you for being prepared and trying out the apps between sessions. As some of you have found by revisiting the same apps again it has helped to consolidate the students knowledge. The process then becomes more about the learning objective and less about the tech side of it. 

Hayley’s class have been focusing on numbers to 10, the students used “Showme” to record their voice and record drawing the numbers. 

In groups students first made the number with counters and took a photo of it. Then in "Showme" they recorded their voice “this is the number 7” and drew the number on the page. 

( We had a few small glitches in the app, with the writing not appearing. I'll check it out this week)

Overall it was a great way to record writing and speaking at the same time. 

Lucy was working on pronouns- Lucy had the students using Puppet Pals to explain who is holding what toy. "He is holding a Green car."

Puppet Pals allowed for students to listen back to their recordings and save the recordings as evidence if needed.

Deb's class have been cooking 2 minute noodles. We used Pic Collage to sequence the photos and they are putting them in Book Creator. Once in Book Creator the students will record their voice to explain the process.

Deb and I also looked at Air Drop- this is only available on the new iPads in A block, it allows you to send photos via bluetooth. Therefore taking photos on 1 iPads can easily be sent to the other 3 iPads in your class. C block will need to use Dropbox to share photos and work.

Alison's class created a Pic Collage after a picture sort. Students had to take photos, import them to Pic collage and write their name. 

Creating a Popplet such as the example below could be another option to display this kind of language work. 

Pic Collage student work 

Popplet Example

Lucy's class consolidated their knowledge of Puppet Pals and retold a different story. Using the App for a second time the students showed a lot more independence and it allowed students to push ahead quickly if they were confident with the App. As students were quite independent it allowed students to move outside to a quiet recording area so that they had less background noise. 

Jude's class ( Sorry I forgot to grab a photo) retold the story of Mr Gumpy using Puppet pals.  Students worked in 3 groups and some students even tried to add expression and character voices. 

Each group created a great first try, I can't wait to see what else they create next week. 

Hey all, 

Thanks for all being prepared and ready to go yesterday. Also a massive thank you to Vivienne for getting Reflector on all of your computers and "30 hands" downloaded. 

Hayley’s class

What a beautiful class to start my day with, the year 1’s in Hayley's class were brilliant this morning. We used “30 hands” to retell the story of Mrs Wishy-Washy. In 3 groups students took pictures of each of the pages in the book and put them in order. Then in rotation students added their oral recordings to each page. They loved hearing their voice back again and some students wanted to redo their recordings at they had not spoken clearly enough into the microphone. 

"30 hands" also can be saved to the camera roll as a video, therefore sharing it with parents or saving it to a computer is easy.

Lucy's Class

Lucy’s class were working on students vocabulary around movement, focusing on words such as up, down , through and under…..etc. Lucy had taken photos of her students and they placed themselves as characters on a photo of the playground. In Puppet Pals students had to describe how they move   around the playground  e.g. “First I went up the slide, then over the bridge”.

The students are still playing with what the app can do but they are learning fast.  It was a great way to record their oral language. 

Deb's Class

Deb and the amazing Pirates in A6 were exploring sounds and had previously taken photos of objects starting with P, A or S. 

In group rotations students created a Pic Collage or a page in Book Creator. 

Deb and I were also looking at DropBox so that these little masterpieces can be printed. 

Allison's Class

Allison’s class worked with Pic Collage, in groups students went on a sound hunt. Taking photos  of objects that began with a certain letter. 

They then collated them in Pic Collage, adding borders and also students names. 

Sarah’s class

Sarah's students retold the story of The Three Kangaroo Gruff, adding in their own characters and backgrounds. Sarah's main aim was for a oral retell that breaks down the story into beginning, middle and end. By having 3 backgrounds this helped students separate these parts. 

Jude's Class

Jude's class are focusing on transport and used Popplet to create a brainstorm. 

This allowed students to link ideas and group them by colour. 

Most groups needed some prompting from the teacher working with the group, so Jude will repeat the lesson with the class today. 

Overall the students did a fantastic job.