Create a memoir using the books that were a part of your growing up years.
Media Makes
Makes that include digital formats such as photography, video, animation, audio, and music
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Makes that include digital formats such as photography, video, animation, audio, and music
Create a memoir using the books that were a part of your growing up years.
Students used Padlet.com to respond to writing- pulling supporting detail from writing to indicate use of narrative technique.
Narrative Pre-write exercise I created using Movie Maker and uploaded to Vimeo. The goal is to stir up memories in the lives of my students so they can create a brainstormed list and/or pre-writes from which to write narratives.
A number of us in clmooc are doing stop motion videos, and others are interested in trying. Why not try yourself? Some have done it with the toy hack, but it could be done with anything and for any purpose. Here’s a nice blog post that gives a few useful resources on making stop motion video:http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2013/06/24/webmaker-making-stopmotion-movies/#.UcgdppzWcPg.twitter One easy way to make a stop motion video is to take a series of still photos and then put them together in a movie making program like iMovie or Windows Movie Maker. Or here are a few apps for doing it: Jellycam: http://www.ticklypictures.com/shop/jellycam/… Read more »
Streetview, walking and taking pictures. Nice way to learn to watch where you walk. Take pictures while your are walking around. Put the pictures together, and tell the story. (The story could be fictional or factional, a short story or a 400-pager) Write down something about the process of taking pictures and thinking about the story. Some people may not take pictures of the street, the stones, but of the surroundings, or people, or letters, or … Some people prefer walking inside a building. Tools: camera Olympus pen 14-42 mm lens. (any camera will do) photo software Gimp, resize all… Read more »
Create an image or video that shows how a product, activity, place, or person might look in the future. Make a statement about where we are headed in terms of a social issue that matters to you. Be ready to explain how your creation is connected to real data or current scholarly thought. Adapted from: http://ltlatnd.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/artifacts-from-the-future
A short video briefly describing the process of hacking my Canon camera. Adapted from: http://lifehacker.com/387380/turn-your-point+and+shoot-into-a-super+camera
Make an amazing picture with a paper cut-out in it. Make it tell a story. Share and build off someone else’s work. (Tag #clmooc-cutout and also post your example at the bottom of this page.) See this site for examples and inspiration. Adapted from: Kouichi Chiba
Chalkboard man wants to come visit you! Chad Sansing commented that my vines of Chalkboard man’s antics were like “an ongoing graphic novel.” Let’s write that graphic novel together! I will mail chalkboard man to you, and you can take a video or a picture, or make a stop motion, or anything else, of Chalkboard man’s adventures with you. To sign up, go to the google doc and enter your name and your city/state. I will map Chalkboard man’s route, and then re-order the list so we know who he is visiting and in what order. I mail him to… Read more »
Take some time to do some noticing–wherever you are, inside or outside. Figure out a way to share what you noticed…and you’re done (for now). Here’s an example of my noticing: http://thinkingthroughmylens.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/on-noticing/ Be sure to add your examples below to share with others.