Language Arts RTI- A Christmas Carol

A language arts RTIat our school re-wrote the play "A Chistmas Carol". They filmed it in their classroom with the portable green screen.

Math RTI video- Alice in Numberland

For RTI a classroom wrote and filmed a play involving real and rational numbers, because they were struggling with them. They used our broadcasting room with the green screen to create this video.

Veterans Day- Videos for Advisory

This video was created to show at our Middle and High school veterans day program. Each kid had to say what Veterans Day meant to them. We filmed it using the GSMX app and them compiled the videos into movie maker and added music.

Yearbook Photos

Our yearbook staff needed more pictures to put on collage pages in our yearbook so we used the greenscreen to take silly pictures of the students during their lunch hour.  The students loved taking pictures with their friends & these made great layouts in the yearbook.

Cinemania

Cinemania is a STLP challenge where you have 48 hours to create a short film using the following criteria. It only took us 3 hours to film, edit, and create a final video because we used the greenscreen.  This would be a great writing activity to use in Language Arts or Social Studies.

 
Official 2014 Elements:

• Prop: paper clips
• Prop: an abundance of sodium chloride
• Prop: an untied shoe
• Prop: sunglasses
• Prop: a crooked picture frame
• Prop: an animal that people eat

• Action: posing for a selfie
• Action: jazz hands (look it up or need be…)
• Action: a great handshake with multiple steps (a high five sequence)

• Character: “Grandma” or “Grandpa”
• Character: Someone with 2 first names (or a last name that can also be a first name)
• Character: someone/something we hear at least once, but never see on screen

• Dialogue: “…off the record…”
• Dialogue: “You’re causing a scene!”
• Dialogue: “How do you explain this?”

5th Grade Poetry Project

The 5th grade students at our school had to write poems for their language arts class. The teacher wanted to find a way to take the pictures they drew, that corresponded with their poems, and show it while they read their poems at a poetry reading held at our school. She decided to take pictures of their drawings and use the green screen to display their art. We helped them record and publish these videos.

Our Experience at KYSTE

When we precipitaed in the KYSTE conference, we had the oppertunity to teach other teachers in Kentucky about the greenscreen and our experience with it. We set up our homemade greenscreen and the greenscreen we recieved at regionals. The teachers used it and found that is wasn't difficult or hard to use or make. They said they were really impressed with our presentation and they were all eager to try it with their students.  On the ratings and surveys given after the session we received 4/5 stars for our session!