Delightful Digital Drawings

 So impressed with these gems. Students where tasked with showing off the skills they learned when making their avatars. Wait until you see these gorgeous digital drawings they made with some of my favorite photos and their Google Slides Skills.

Apparently we have a lot of cappuccino fans. It was a popular choice. See if you can identify any of the places that they picked. Locations include Georges Islands here in Boston, Beijing, Maine, Mystic Aquarium, a local tree, and Iceland.

Fourth Quarter Happenings

Students are busy honing their digital skills, editing video, learning about different file types, and making awesome creations. They are currently working on researching the meaning of their names. 

One of their first projects was to edit a screen recording. They took a 1 minute and 17 second video and whittled it down to a 45-60 second video. In addition to trimming out the unwanted segments, like my pseudo sneeze and 2 of the three introductions, they explored zooming in on important items, cropping out the background to focus on the content, and exporting their finished product in a more universal format, .mp4. 

Original	Edited Version

Another project they have just wrapped up are making personal avatars. Look out Bitmoji, here comes your competition! 

In this project students used Google Slides to ultimately make an avatar of themself which they saved as a png file. PNG files are special, they can have transparent backgrounds allowing you to use your creation like a digital sticker! During the process they learned about some new tools and features in Google Slides, the polyline, curve, gradient and curve tool. They also practiced using the Arrange tools to organize objects on the screen before "flattening" these layers into one image when downloaded as .png files. 

I'm so excited to see these creations come to life in their Scratch animations which classes are working on now. 

Stone	Coletti

John	Robinson	Morris