Tech Club, Week 5 Tuesday April 9, 2013
This
Tech Club session I had the second grade students use iMovie for the entire
time. They learned how to use iMovie
last week so I began by refreshing their memories and then set them loose to
create a real video using the film from their anti-bullying puppet performance. The students seemed to be engaged the whole session
and many of them discovered new features that they had not learned the previous
week. I made sure to stress the
importance of having music in the appropriate place since they need to be able
to hear the speaker of the puppet show throughout their video. I also encouraged the students to add text
and transitions throughout the video. The
students were sharing ideas with each other and collaborating with their
neighbors which made for a really fun learning environment. By the end of the session, most of the
students were finished with their videos and they were saved onto their
computer. I was proud of the second
graders for being able to produce the cohesive coherent videos that they did.
I
think this was a very successful week. I
had spent time prior to the session to edit and clean up the film of their
puppet performance so that the project the students were to work on would be simpler. I arrived at Hyalite at 3:30 and got the
cleaned-up video imported onto all of the computers beforehand. This went much smoother than last week
because I used two flash drives so that I had more than one computer importing
video at once, instead of using the video camera directly to import the video. It worked well to have a brief refresher on
what iMovie does and some of its important features prior to unleashing the
students to make a video. They were very
on task and seemed to be having fun sharing with their neighbor what they were
doing or what they had discovered. I did
have to bounce around the room and answer a lot of questions but for the most part,
they could help each other if the same question arose. I had to constantly reinforce the idea that
they could not have music playing throughout their whole video because we need
to be able to hear what the speakers are saying from the puppet show. This seemed to be a never ending battle but I
think this comes with the age, and the fact that the music feature was by far
their favorite in iMovie. However, I
suggested that they use the music feature when they had text such as in a title
or credits at the end.
Before
the students were allowed to be done, I checked each of their videos to be sure
that they had added in some features in order to enhance the film from their
puppet show. Most of the students did
very well but a lot of them had to make minor adjustments as to how long their
music played for or where they had accidentally inserted something they didn’t
mean to. By the end of the session it
seemed pretty clear that the students were exhausted of iMovie and I will keep
this in mind for next week’s session.
Since next week is the last week, I will debrief with the students and
have them discuss what they have learned about bullying in order to wrap-up the
end of Tech Club for this semester. This
project has been a twelve week process through cohort one and two for these
second grade students. To do this, I may
have the students use computers to write their own creative stories about
bullying and have them share what they have learned. I also intend to complete the video from the
puppet performance on bullying so that Hyalite Elementary can use it to
demonstrate what the students have been working on and what they have leaned
throughout the unit.
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