RIMS CTAP Summer Roadshow:Windows Movie Maker

Online Agenda and Resource Site

Introductions

• Name
• Grade Level, Site, Subject
• What are your thoughts on video in the classroom?

Overview

• A Movie in Two Hours!
• Handouts, Files
• Online Resources

A Peek into Information Literacy

• Copyright – do you follow the rules?
• Plagiarism – can you detect it?
• Citations – would you like citations created for you?

File Management Quick Overview

• Is it a Thumb, USB, Flash, Storage Device?
• How to use it
• Ideas for the classroom and personal use
• Desktop folders
• Naming Files and File Extensions
• .wmv – windows movie maker movie
• .jpg – jpeg graphic/photo format
• .mswmm – windows movie maker project file
• Windows Multimedia File Extensions

Movie Maker

• View Sample from Microsoft
• Basics for Using Movie Maker CTAP Handout
• Free Tutorial from Atomic Learning
• Steps for making a movie from Microsoft

Available Projects

1. California Missions 4th Grade Standards
2. Marine Life – Local Marine Environment
3. Marine Life – At Night
4. Marine Life – Marine Mammals
5. Marine Life – Tropical Marine Life

Folder on Desktop
• Resource files for music, sounds, titles, photos, videos
• Here's how to use PowerPoint slides as .jpg for background and/or title use within Movie Maker

Please note: San Juan Capistrano Mission photos taken by Jody Oliver and Marine Life photos and videos taken by Jenny Thomas … and husband Mike! Permission granted by photographers to use for this CTAP workshop and back within YOUR classroom.
Work Time

1. Create your own Movie!
2. Don’t forget a title screen and credit yourself and the photographers!
3. Save to your Desktop Folder
4. Transfer to your Flash Drive

Resources

1. Classroom Ideas from Apple Education
2. Adobe Education Resources
3. Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Foreign Language, Vocational Education, Physical Education, Music, Arts, for parents, for students, for ASB, for assemblies, endless possibilities.
4. Support from Microsoft
5. Microsoft Office Training – online learning, some with audio
6. Microsoft Office Templates – free forms & documents
7. New from Microsoft – Virtual Classroom Tours
8. Digital Kids Club – lesson plans and ideas from Adobe
9. Windows XP Fun Packs for Movie Maker – more titles, sounds, music, themes
10. Visit www.teachertube.com for great inspiration and curriculum ideas. Pay Attention, Math Rap, Did you know?

More Ideas

• Activities for Summer or Overview of Next School Year
• Use United Streaming and break up movies for a lesson presentation
• Autobiography to introduce yourself to students and/or parents
• Teach math strategies using a microphone – see teachertube.com for more ideas!
• Create Virtual Field Trips for your students
• Integrate with photos from Google Earth or Google Sky
• Use thinkfinity.org for more videos and photos from “educator approved” sites

Photo Editing

• http://picasa.google.com/
• Free photo editing, web albums, collages, and more!
• http://picasa.google.com/support
• Great tutorial and support site

Recap/Review Looking back … Presenters

Jody Oliver, joliver@ctap10.org

Bill Robinson, brobinson@ctap10.org