Media Makes

Makes that include digital formats such as photography, video, animation, audio, and music

Making Pinhole Cameras to Teach Photo Composition

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Created July 21, 2015 by Brianna English • 1803 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

Making Pinhole Cameras to Teach Photo Composition

Pinhole cameras are fun and easy to make and allow the opportunity to slow down and practice photography composition skills. The simple cameras are made out of mostly recycled materials and take stunning, unique black and white photographs. Visit my blog to view or download the how-to and read a lesson plan for how the cameras can be used to teach photography composition in a yearbook, photography, or media class. https://briannaenglish.wordpress.com/maker-education-movement/lesson-using-a-pinhole-camera-to-teach-photography-composition-skills/

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Make the world more open

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Created July 18, 2015 by Karen Fasimpaur • 1924 views • 2 examples • 3 tutorials

The world of sharing is so rich because so many great people choose to share freely. Would you like to share your work in a way that others can easily make use of it? Here are some tips. License your work under a Creative Commons license. This means that you are saying to others “It’s ok to use my stuff without asking first.” The easiest way to do this is to just write “Copyright [your name], licensed under CC BY” (or whatever license you choose) on your work. You can also use the Creative Commons license chooser. Once you choose… Read more »

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Make a poem

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Created July 14, 2015 by Karen Fasimpaur and others • 2571 views • 6 examples • 0 tutorials

Make, hack, or remix a poem about anything that’s important to you. Could be simple text or any variety of multimedia extravaganza. (Graphic and example courtesy of Kevin Hodgson.)

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All systems go! – 2015 Make Cycle #4

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Created by Kim Douillard, Janet Ilko, Janis Jones, and Abby Robles San Diego Area Writing Project • 2753 views • 1 examples • 0 tutorials

According to the dictionary, a system is “a group of interacting, interrelated, interdependent elements forming a complex whole.” There are many types of systems: human, behavioral, natural, technological, mechanical, mathematical, political, social, financial, transit, etc. In this make, we invite you to document, analyze and reflect on the variety of systems that influence your life personally and/or professionally. Use your creativity to document an existing system, access your ingenuity to improve an existing system or use your imagination to develop a unique new system and design a novel way to explain it. How can you document a system that serves… Read more »

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Make a Manifesto

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Created by Merisenda Alatorre • 2087 views • 1 examples • 0 tutorials

Can artist manifestos create social change? Create a short manifesto that expresses your own point of view about the role of art or artists (or other individuals or organizations) in political and social change. Your manifesto might start with something like, “Art is,” “I believe,” “Artists must,” etc.

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Tag You’re It – Teachers Change The World

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Created July 9, 2015 by Laura Lopez • 1652 views • 1 examples • 0 tutorials

Let’s Go Viral! As part of 2015’s make cycle 3 assignment, we were asked to “create” a game. Think pay it forward meets the ice bucket challenge…post a video (or other media) giving a shout-out to your favorite teacher and pass it on….

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Creative Commons: A Radical Resource for the Classroom

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Created July 7, 2015 by Jill Dawson • 1930 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

Creative Commons: A Radical Resource for the Classroom

This is an interactive lesson that teaches about the various Creative Commons licenses using drag and drop games. I created it in Captivate.

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How to Turn Your Video Clips into Animation

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Created July 5, 2015 by Jill Dawson • 1523 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

How to Turn Your Video Clips into Animation

This make is a screen cast explaining the process of app smashing that I used to create an animated video remix, using my own video footage.

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Photographs into Picture Books

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Created by Amy Clancy • 1501 views • 0 examples • 0 tutorials

We have tons of pictures we’ve taken in our lives- what if we chose some of those and created a picture book from them? Rather than tell the story of the photograph, we use the photographs to create a whole new story. I used Google Slides to create my story.

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Re(media)te – 2015 Make Cycle #2

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Created June 30, 2015 by Scott Filkins, Katrina Kennett, Ryan Kerr, and Karla Schroeder University of Illinois Writing Project • 2760 views • 5 examples • 1 tutorials

For this Make Cycle, we invite you to consider how the media we compose within (like print, sound, still and moving image, or objects) influence how we communicate and interpret. In this Make Cycle, we will mediate and re-mediate and reflect on how the affordances of different media impact our choices, processes, and meanings. Ryan moved from image to words in this remediation: Remediation – as we’ll be thinking about it here – is unrelated to another use of the term in education: we are not talking about “remediating kids” as in “remedy”-ing them. Here, the focus is on media,… Read more »

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