2018 TIES Institute: Green Screen Playground

I am excited to share some awesome green screen apps for the iPad at the 2018 TIES Institute.  Come join me and explore four great apps for green screening.

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I will be talking about two of my favorite apps - TouchCast and Green Screen by DoInk! Come explore and learn more about how these powerful, yet simple-to-use iOS apps can enhance student creativity and make learning more visible. Green screen apps on the iPad can help make student thinking more visible by taking students to the depths of the ocean, into outer space, back in time, or anywhere they can imagine. Come play and explore four easy-to-use green screen apps and a variety of props that will have your students creating amazing videos in no time.

Resources:

Link To Slides

What Is TouchCast?

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Some Helpful TouchCast Tutorial Videos:
Making Your First TouchCast




TouchCast Tutorial Green Screen

Examples Of Student TouchCasts:

Bdote Field Trip To Fort Snelling

http://www.touchcast.com/sapvideos/fort_snelling_history

Student Biography Videos 

SAPVideos Channel

Student Book Buzz Videos 

SAPBooks Channel

ISTE Student Standards 2016:
ISTE Student Standards

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Helpful Equipment:

Padcaster

The Padcaster allows you to turn your iPad into a mobile media powerhouse.

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iOgrapher
The iOgrapher is a film-making case for iPads and iPhones.

Tripod
A tripod or stand to keep your iPad steady and as motionless as possible is important for creating quality videos.

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Resources
Apps:
TouchCast Studio
TouchCast Studio is available for Windows and iOS.

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Green Screen by DoInk

Green Screen by Do Ink allows you to create green screen videos.

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Veescope Live Green Screen
Veescope Live Green Screen allows you to create green screen videos.










Stop Motion Studio

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Stop Motion Studio allows you to create stop motion animation videos.

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Reflector 3
Reflector 3 - Mirror your iPad screen to your computer.
Available for Mac and Windows.

ISTE13 Sessions

Spending today working on presentations for the two sessions that I am doing at ISTE this year.

Learning Station Session: 30 Plus Ways To Use Your iPad For Professional Development

Take a whirlwind tour of 30+ ways to use your iPad to build your professional learning network, engage in personalized professional development, and transform your learning. Explore apps and resources that you can use to improve and enhance your own teaching. Learn how the iPad just may be the most versatile transformative tool in the educational world that can bring personalized learning to your fingertips 24/7 and just in time for your professional learning needs.

Mini Workshop: Animated Video To Liven Up Your Curriculum And Enhance Student Learning

The purpose of the workshop is to share information with participants on a variety of free and low-cost software programs that can be used with K-8 students to create short animated videos that focus on the academic content that students are learning and to focus on demonstrating how to use just one to step through a project. The videos can be used to engage and motivate struggling students in reviewing and learning content covered in class, and as a way for older students to share informational text with younger students. Animation projects allow students to review content material while meeting new Common Core multimedia standards.
*Recommended by ISTE SIGDS 
*Requires registration.

If either of these topics interests you, please come to the sessions to learn more and share ideas and resources.

ISTE 2013 - My Workshop Recommended By ISTE SIGDS

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Today, I pulled up the ISTE 2013 program search to review the description for one of my sessions and was surprised to notice the "SIG Pick" icon indicating that my Animated Video to Liven Up Your Curriculum and Student Learning mini workshop session has been endorsed by the ISTE Digital Storytelling Special Interest Group!

I'm really looking forward to this workshop.  It is such a fun way to meet Common Core multimedia standards while helping students to review, demonstrate, and better remember what they learned about their content material.

ISTE 2012 San Diego Animation Presentation

Reanimating Student Learning With Student-Created Animations

Ways To Create Animations:

Use iMovie and iPhoto on a Mac (Windows-Photo folders and Windows Movie Maker)

This software is included with the operating system on Mac computers. (Windows Movie Maker is included on PC computers running Microsoft XP or Windows 7 software.)

You will need to take about ten times the amount of still photos as the number of seconds that you want your video to be. Example – 30 second video = about 300-350 photos with objects being incrementally moved

60 second video = about 550 to 600 photos

Sam Animation Software created through project at Tufts University.

iCreateToEducate

Can download demo version first and try out software before purchasing.

Works great with external webcam so that you can easily take pictures of stop-motion stage.

Student examples

XtraNormal

Account types and pricing

XtraNormal Initially get preset amount of XtraNormal Points (XP) to purchase assets – characters, settings, etc.  Can buy more points.

1,200xp -$10

5,000xp – $25

15,000xp – $50

40,000xp – $100

80,000xp – $150

Publishing a video costs 100 XP but can preview it for free.

Assets remain with your account for re-use after purchased.

Click on the Education tab to create cookie settings to take your browser to the education version page every time that you go to XtraNormals site so that you don’t see all of the videos posted.

Online Getting Started Guide

History Day and Class Announcements

Or you can watch the video on XtraNormal’s website if you have the video cued up and ready to play.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/5826491/ben-franklin

Pencil

Free software for Mac, PC, and Linux.

Online user manual wiki

Can teach animation history and techniques

Easiest to use if you have an interactive whiteboard or a tablet to make drawing easier than trying to use mouse or trackpad.

Example video

Blabberize Short tutorial video

Student example

Crazy Talk

Other Ways To Create Animations

ActivBoard
Free version of software available from Promethean Planet

You will need to create a free account first in order to download software.

Use video recorder feature to move objects around on the page to create an “animated” video.

Final product will be a video of objects moving.

Student will not be visible in video – only the screen movement.

PowerPoint or Keynote
Software available for purchase from Microsoft or Apple

Create slide and duplicate.

Incrementally move objects.

Duplicate.

Repeat process until all slides are finished.

Set timing of slides to advance automatically and adjust timing to 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, or 1 second.

Experiment to find the best-looking time settings.

Crazy Talk

PC only software available for purchase.

Similar concept to Blabberize but much more sophisticated-looking product.