Overview
Learn to shoot, edit, and publish a video on an iPad in a fraction of the time this process takes with a laptop computer and “traditional” video gear! Participants will learn:
- How to use their iPad video camera, the iMovie app, and a free YouTube account to create and publish “quick edit” videos.
- Techniques for recording, editing, and publishing higher quality iPad videos.
- How to successfully facilitate student-created iPad videos.
- How to create "green screen" videos"
- Options for puppet videography with iPads, including actual finger puppets as well as virtual puppets using apps like Puppet Pals.
Prepare to have fun and unleash a wealth of creative ideas on your students during and following this session!
Activity 1: Narrated Slideshow - "What Does Democracy Mean to You?"
Apps
App to use (built-in): Safari 
Images
- America
- Democracy
- Election
- Flag
- Veteran
You are NOT limited to using just these 50 photos, but please do not spend most of your time SEARCHING for images in this project!
iCreate
- Create a 5-10 slide Narrated Slideshow with Explain Everything, addressing the topic, "What Democracy Means to Me."
- Save 5 to 10 images from the provided Google Drive Folder of 50 images to your iPad camera roll.
- Optional: Download and use the free Google Drive for iPad app to save/copy the images.
- Take some notes about what these images make you think about on the topic, "What Democracy Means to Me."
- Use the app "Explain Everything" to insert your photos and record your voice on each slide.
- Optional: Insert multiple photos on different pages and pinch to zoom / move the images
- Export your final video to your camera roll.
- Upload your video from the Camera Roll to YouTube with YouTube Capture (use our shared class YouTube channel)
It is VERY important to turn comment moderation ON for each YouTube video you upload. Unfortunately, it is NOT possible at this time to make comment moderation the DEFAULT setting for a YouTube channel.
Example Teacher Videos
Using Technology (3 min - Teachers share innovative ways they've integrated technology in their classrooms and been inspired to use technology in transformative ways during iPad Media Camp)Cancer (1.5 min - a teacher shares powerful lessons she learned with her students about courage and perseverance)Advice To New Parents (3 min - Teachers share sage advice for a soon-to-be mom)Digital Books Vs Traditional Books (1.5 min - an 8 year old shares her thoughts on the benefits of eBooks)
Optional Homework:
Activity 4: Narrated Sketchnotes
iCreate
- Draw or create on your iPad a sketchnote as we watch "The Truth About Toilet Swirl" (two synchronized videos!) via Twitter
- Take a photo of your drawing or save/export your digital sketchnote to PHOTOS on your iPad'
- Create a new Explain Everything Project
- Insert your Sketchnote
- Narrate Over your Sketchnote
- Export your Video to your iPad PHOTOS
- Upload to YouTube with YouTube Capture (use our shared class YouTube channel)
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