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 |
|---|---|---|
No comments:
Post a Comment