Digital Imaging
- Dawn Stark - Solution
- Ms. Stark decided to use email to start a correspondence between students in an English class in Japan and the students in her Japanese class in Michigan. By emailing back and forth, both her and her Japanese counterpart were able to enforce grammar and vocabulary each class was currently studying, while providing authentic conversations between the students. The students were also exposed to Japanese culture in a way not possible in her classroom in Lansing and were more likely to tackle higher level language skills than in normal instruction.
Review her problem. Tags: Foreign Language, High School, Email, Digital Imaging, Standards
- Kelly Deboer - Solution
- Ms. Deboer used a claymation, using digital imaging and video editing, to create a project that required her students to analye important historical events and their effects. She had the students conduct Internet research, use the program Inspiration to create outlines and then use digital images to create the animated videos.
Review her problem. Tags: Social Studies, Middle School, Video, Digital Imaging, History, Animation
- Laura Glish - Solution
- Ms. Glish used animation to help illustrate concepts using digital video cameras and the programs FrameThief, iStopMotion and iMovie. Her students draw out a concept on paper under the digital video camera and then sequence the animation together using the different programs. They would also add titles and music, then create a QuickTime movie that they could take with them at the end of the project.
Review the problem. Tags: Middle School, Science, Video, Digital Imaging, Animation, Physical Science
- Marilyn Western - Solution
- Ms. Western devised a lesson plan using technology that makes the experience of learning about the seasons active and personal to her students. Using Weather.com she has her students record sunrise and sunset and use Microsoft Excel to plot the length of days for an entire season. Ms. Western also uses digital images to take a picture of a stationary object on the playground over a series of eight weeks to illustrate the shadow growing or shrinking.
Review the problem. Tags: Elementary, Middle School, Science, Digital Imaging, Graphs, Animation, Excel
- Sandra Smits - Solution
- Ms. Smits uses claymation to motivate her students to meet the standards for her science class during the their life cycle unit. Using a digital cameras and the software Video Blender, the students use clay to create an animation of different life cycles. After the unit is done, she hosts a movie day and the students watch each others videos. Afterwards she uses the videos as an assessment using a rubric she created with her peer teachers.
View the problem Tags: Elementary, Science, Video, Digital Imaging, Animation, Standards