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Show Notes:
- Keynote of Gabe Zichermann
- Movie Making with Kids Part 5: What I learned from filming the Ghost of Bethke
- App Review: Notability
Episode Sponsor: Atomic Learning
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- Brad Flickinger, Tech Teacher, Bethke Elementary School
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Show Notes:
- The view on the upcoming Colorado TechFair.
- Edudemic is a must follow website.
- Movie Making with Kids Part 4: filming tricks
- App Review: Zite
Sponsor: Atomic Learning
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I am getting ready to attend the Colorado TechFair this Saturday where I will be showing off the animations my students make during the animation breakout session. I have been testing the new animation software Frames 5 by Tech4Learning and I have some new techniques demonstrate.
Colorado TechFair is a one-day event that will be held on Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 10am to 2:30pm at the University of Denver’s Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management. The TechFair will feature approximately 40 projects created by 1st-8th grade students from Colorado as well as other fun activities, such as a Lego-robotics lab, a Scratch computer software lab, a graphic design work exhibit, and an animation breakout session. Admission is free.
It will be a fantastic day for students of all ages to engage in hands-on, minds-on activities, such as Robotics, Game Design, Computer Programming, Graphic Design, Animation and much, much more.
Categories for competition include: programming, robotics, graphic design, animation, game design. By challenging each student to excel within this competition we are creating new and exciting opportunities that can benefit them for years to come.
- Brad Flickinger, Tech Teacher, Bethke Elementary School
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Yesterday we finished another two scenes of our new movie The Ghost of Bethke. I was surprised at how well the students did the makeup for the ghost. Filming and editing on the new iPad is a breeze.
Here is a photo from yesterday of the ghost getting ready…
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Show Notes:
- My experience with EdCamp Colorado.
- YouTube Video about “Pedagogy Buttons”
- Movie Making With Kids Part 3: Getting kids to act.
- iPad App Review: Animation Desk
Episode Sponsor: Atomic Learning
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The Odyssey of the Mind team from my school just won the Colorado State Competition and now is off to the World Finals in Iowa. Check out their YouTube video of their awesome performance of the solution to this year’s challenge.
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Filmmaking with the new iPad.
Yesterday after school my fourth-quarter filmmaking group made up of fourth and fifth grade students, met for the first time to start filming “The Ghost of Bethke.” Although we have been writing the script and planning the movie for the past few weeks, this was the first time we met to start filming, but this time there is a twist. This time we are filming our movie exclusively on a new iPad (the iPad 3). I was impressed with the new camera on this iPad and I wanted to see if a movie could really be shot and edited on it.
There were a few things we added to the iPad to make filming with it easier. First, we added a wide-angle lens (magnetic) to the lens of the new iPad. Next, we added a Tascam iM2 directional microphone so that we would get better sound. And finally we added a tripod mount to keep the iPad steady.
I must admit, filming was easy on the new iPad, the big screen made it easy for me as the teacher to check to make sure our 10-year camera operator had a good shot. We could also easily review a shot to show our actors what needed to be fixed for the next take. It is nice to be able to gather 8 or 9 students around the iPad to explain something. At first I though the big screen of the iPad would make it awkward, but it turned out to be very helpful.
We should wrap up filming by the end of May, but I will keep you posted as we continue filming and editing on the new iPad.
- Brad Flickinger, Tech Teacher, Bethke Elementary
You can see the wide-angle lens that we added to the iPad.
Filming the "special effect" of a floating pencil.
