Storytelling with iSight

In this session, participants will create a digital story vignette that will reside in the teachers webpage. Teachers will create short, personal multimedia tales to capture students' love of learning. The goals and objectives are to provide participants with the skill, knowledge and resources to take this back to the classroom and engage their students in an environment filled with creative multimedia activities that are tied to the TEKS.

Tools participants will use are:

  ·  Comic Life
  ·  iMovie
  ·  iSight
  ·  iPhoto
  ·  iTunes

What better way to engage students in reading than to create an exciting short book trailer. We will create a short movie clip highlighting a novel(s)/book(s) of the month, etc. that your kids will be reading this year.

Creating the Storyboard

It is important to create your storyboard and devlop a script before creating your movie. We will use Comic Life to get our thoughts organized.

  ·  Use Firefox browser to search for the book you will be focusing on for this project.
  ·  Bookmark the site that has a clear summary of the book you will be focusing on. Identify content you want to use in your book description.
  ·  While on this site you might want to get images of the book cover, images relating to the book
  ·  Open up Comic Life
  ·  Select Built-in Template from the Page Template pull down menu.
  ·  Select Rounded
  ·  Brainstorm Script and add brief description of visuals to be included in movie.

Using iPhoto to Organize Pictures

  ·  Browse for pictures that are related to the topic of your movie.
  ·  Save them to your desktop. (Drag to your desktop or Ctrl-click-right click)
  ·  Select desktop pictures and drag them to the iPhoto icon found on the dock.
  ·  iPhoto will automatically open at this point.
  ·  Click on the "+" in the lower left hand corner of the window in order to create the album were you will be placing the pictures that
     were just imported. (You will use this later in the iMovie project)

Creating iMovie using iSight

  ·  Open iMovie. Create New Movie Project
  ·  Engage the iSight capture feature.
  ·  Read the books brief synopsis as you look into the iSight camera on your computer.
  ·  Drag Recorded Clip to Clip Viewer/Timeline
  ·  Click on Advanced in the Menu bar and select Extract Audio. This will seperate your video clip from your audio captured. If you
     do not want the actual movie clip and only keep the audio, select only the video clip and press delete on your keyboard.
  ·  Click on Media tab to bring in pictures that were previously imported into iPhoto. Drag these pictures down onto the timeline.
  ·  For additional help use the following videos from atomiclearnig.com
  ·  Type in the Key # in the Search field, Click on the video clip icon and preview video.

      ·  Key # Video Clip

      ·  #20306 Extracting audio from a video clip
      ·  #20287 Splitting a video clip
      ·  #20304 Editing audio volume levels
      ·  #20315 Adding transitions
      ·  #20295 Bringin in a still photo from iPhoto


Export movie to your webpage

  ·  Add a New Page
  ·  Select a Scrapbook Page
  ·  Scrapbook Style
  ·  Enter the page title: "Book of the Week"
  ·  Header: Book Study (Edit)
  ·  Add picture and text
  ·  Upload image(movie) & add text (description)