Many teachers here at Piedmont have used student-created movies to teach their content. Above are just two examples - a stop motion film of an scene from Seedfolks for Language arts and a video of a student created Minecraft Pyramid from Mrs. Kay's social studies Ancient Egypt unit. 

Try these lesson plans to get started 

• Example of Instructions to Students: Coach Ashley's Dance Movie Assignment
• http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/vocabulary-learning-filmmaking-vocabulary-30683.html?tab=4#session7
  
• http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/movie-making-classroom
  

Our School Resources:

1. Student BYOT devices with a camera and free or paid video editing app 
   
2. our iPads have Movie Maker, Action Movie HD, and iMotionHD loaded
   
3. Our Makerspace's Video SteamCart http://piratesteamship.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/STEAMshipCarts Tech Theater: Photography and Videography STEAMcart Contains:
   

• Greenscreen
• Video slapboard

• How to Book and How to Videos http://video.klutz.com/animation/
• Various cameras- video and still (students may also use their phones and BYOT devices)
• Paper and markers for paper slide videos
• 37 beanie babies for puppet theater or stop motion videos
• lego bricks and figures for stop motion videos
• How to Make RSA animate Style Videos
• Goal Setting, Goal Achieving, and Bulldog puppets

Recommended BYOT apps for movie making :

1. iMovie  Videolicious if students cannot get iMovie
   
2. Action Movie HD
   
3. Lego Movie
   
4. Do Ink App - (costs $2.99) Do Ink  https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/green-screen-by-do-ink/id730091131?mt=8
   

If using a shared ipad, you can upload and download the video as needed from Google Drive:
(Sorry I ironically broke the cardinal rule of movie making - NEVER HOLD  YOUR DEVICE LONGWAYS Learn from my mistake!)

This video shows how to upload and share from your device

This video shows how to turn in a video link for an assigment on Google Classroom

ColAR is an Augmented Reality App. More info about AR, and how to make your own AR via Aurasma is at the bottom of this post.

I first heard of Augmented Reality via ColarMix through Jill Thompson sharing Erin Klein's blog. I immediately downloaded the app and wanted to show it off. My goal was to use the "wow" factor of augmented reality for academic benefit. So here's what I did:

We knew teachers had to read some dry but important district health and safety information each year. Our lead counselor wanted to make the material fun and our principal wanted to let teachers see a new tech tool in action. So we put the two activities together into a flipped lesson:
Preparation:

• Download the COLAR mix app available by searching the app store or google play.
• Print the color sheet or color sheets you want to use from the website http://colarapp.com/  Note: some sheets are only temporarily free and some are visible only with the paid version.
• Add any special instructions to the sheet  (I ask for 4-6 word summary and/or a symbol and I specify where to place those- will be different for each sheet. Test the sheet before hand to see what is visible during the animation. I also specify to use dark ink for the fact.)
• Make copies as needed and gather markers and or crayons
• Pre-assign information to be digested either during another session or on their own time.

Lesson Steps:
1. Have learners write a fact or symbol from the Info viewed independently at a previous time. Also, Students or teachers can arrive at the lesson with one boiled-down fact (to  get a variety of facts you can divide the info into groups--example: say that grade 6 faculty needs a fact about X (topic or section) grade 7 fact about Y , grade 8...etc)
2.Distribute Augmented Reality coloring sheets (they look like plain color sheets) on tables plus crayons.
3. Allow Teachers/students to color the sheet and make sure to write their ONE FACT from the flipped lesson they've done on the designated location of the color sheet-- I will have those directions on the color sheet.
4. Share their facts with each other.
5.Group decide one color sheet to show per each table to demo.
6. Leader will demo the color sheet (I did this by scanning it to my iPad through the ColAR mix app and using the dongle to project it onto the smart board.)
7. The color sheet will magically transform into an animated movie that will also display the fact or symbol that is on the sheet wrote. Discuss as animation plays
8. Viewers will gasp in amazement and also remember the fact they are viewing.

If using several color sheet designs in one lesson, he order that you show the ColAR Mix app sheets in may be important to you. For example if you show the little mouse, then show the hot air balloon next, the last mouse  you made will appear in the basket of the balloon!
So cute!

You can make your own AR --more versatile anyway --with a free app called Aurasma
more info here:

http://www.kleinspiration.com/2013/05/using-augmented-reality-via-aurasma-in.html

Clear steps how to use Aurasma
http://www.technologytailgate.com/2013/07/how-to-use-augmented-reality-in.html

Ready to think about even more uses:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/augmented-reality-apps-for-education/

That link didn't have enough AR for you? try this one http://www.teachthought.com/technology/32-augmented-reality-apps-for-the-classroom-from-edshelf/

Want a Complete clearinghouse of all things AR -cybraryman is the obsessive compulsive educator for you!
http://cybraryman.com/augmentedreality.html

Basics and definitions Via Erin Klein:
- augmented reality: making something come to life- aura: the magic thing that pops up when you hold your device over something- trigger image: the picture you want to make cooler that is just normal (probably something from your camera roll or in your photos)- overlay: the thing you will apply on top of the trigger image (usually a video from your camera roll)- Aurasma: a free app to make augmented reality
- See more at: http://www.kleinspiration.com/2013/05/using-augmented-reality-via-aurasma-in.html#sthash.Q5a1Sfbz.dpuf


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