Because of snow days, our conferences have been rescheduled and shortened. I really want students to have the opportunity to show their parents their technology knowledge and projects.
We have four days until spring break and we are going to use the time to create a PhotoStory3 video about the school year. Friday we spent some time going through our electronic folders. We created a conference folder, deleted some files and converted some files to jpeg images. The jpeg files were placed in the conference folder.
We have had some trouble using PhotoStory3 with the netbooks because of the screen size. We've learned to go into the advance settings and change the screen resolution.
When I say we, I mean we. With adult guidance, they change the resolution. They create folders, delete files, and save files as the intended kind in the proper folder. (Their ABC books were created with Publisher and then saved as a PDF file.)
Back to the conference folder, students have some choice in the files for their video. Some files are not a choice. Each student will have a personalized video when we are done.
Monday we will work again in the electronic folder determining what can be trashed and what should be saved as a jpeg. During the rest of the week the students will write the script to go with their pictures, pull the pictures into PhotoStory3 and create their video. They are looking forward to it. I am, too.
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