Flips-+St.+Teresa+-+January+2012

//St. Teresa of Avila School//Enrichment StudentsFlip Camera Project **2. Students have acquired new technology skills that they had not had previously - please see the 21st century list below** Students can… Students can… learning, and productivity **3. Students have learned about digital citizenship - please see the digital citizenship list of skills below** The students were able to demonstrate growth and awareness in all of the following competencies: ü Visual and information literacies ü Multicultural literacy and global awareness
 * 1. IMPORTANT PIECE - Students are reporting on their experience - (2 - 3 students sharing - recorded on video) attach videos to the wiki. The video only needs to be short so that it can be loaded easily. Sample questions could be - What did they learn, what did they like, did they feel engaged in their learning?**
 * understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behaviour.
 * advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology
 * exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration,
 * demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning
 * exhibit leadership for digital citizenship
 * //__Digital-Age Literacy__//**

ü Adaptability/managing complexity ü Self-direction ü Curiosity, creativity, and risk-taking ü Higher-order thinking and sound reasoning
 * //__Inventive Thinking__//**

ü Teaming, collaboration, and interpersonal skills ü Personal, social, and civic responsibility ü Interactive communication
 * //__Effective Communication__//**


 * //__High Productivity & Quality, State-of-the-Art Results__//**

ü Ability to prioritize, plan, and manage for results ü Effective use of real-world tools ü The ability to create relevant, high-quality products **4. How has our teaching changed? What practices will you continue?** As an entire school community we are embracing the age of “digital fluency” and looking at many ways in which we can move our staff and students forward. Through the application of this this project and the other two 3D projects (Netbooks with Cyndie Puchala & iPads with Kristin Mauro) that were approved we have demonstrated the power that incorporating technology into teaching can have. During the time where the flip cameras were in the school, they were readily available for any staff member to use, either professionally or personally to provide more awareness. We also used one of our embedded PD blocks to demonstrate the learning that had been happening with the 3D projects in our school to all staff. We hope that through these projects that we will increase awareness, demonstrate the ease at which technology can be used in the classroom and encourage teachers to take risks with technology to improve engagement and their teaching practice. The students were highly engaged during the course of the project. They embraced the learning that took place, were quick to learn the procedures and then were excited to begin the adventure. The question that was posed to the students to answer was: “Why is St. Teresa of Avila a Great School?”. The students needed to video tape a variety of people within our school community to help answer this as well as some of the events that occurred within the school to help illustrate this. The engagement that the students had when using this technology was amazing! They worked in multi graded partnerships to learn the technology, how important it was to take care and be respectful of the technology, how to film (use of distance, sound, zoom, etc.), and how to manage, save and edit their footage to create the final video. I was amazed at the ease in which the students were able to use the cameras and their comfort levels with the technology. Some of the students had a flip camera at home or had seen them before so they were very comfortable using them. One of the areas that I was hoping to grow in (pre-maternity leave) was the editing and creation of a short movie to answer the question: “Why is St. Teresa of Avila a Great School”? Unfortunately I left before the project reached this place and I left this end for Kelly Jacobson to complete, so I will still need to learn how to do this when I return. **10. What is your legacy piece? How have you left a digital footprint to let other know about your important work with kids? (Video, digital storytelling, celebrations with parents, inviting senior administration, manual, collaborative place for yourself and your students)** **11. Sample lessons - share 2 lessons that you taught using the equipment (short form – objective of the lesson, brief description of the activity, how did you assess it, and reflection on how the students responded)**
 * 5. What are some best practices? **
 * 6. How has student achievement improved because of the use of the equipment? **
 * 7. Listing what I have learned and what were some of the challenges **
 * Learning how the flip cameras worked (their strengths and limitations)
 * How to save the footage
 * How to transfer the footage from the flip cameras to the computers at school (and my computer at home)
 * How to piece together the video clips in order to create a short video
 * 8. What was your personal growth as a learner? **
 * 9. What are some tips for next time users? **
 * Make sure the cameras are always charged
 * Check with IT to ensure that you are not trying to surpass some of the security features that our networked computers have (students had difficulty loading the software onto the computers that they had logged in on
 * Know that you cannot save the flip videos onto a memory stick and then use that memory stick in a different computer (it will not automatically save and play the videos)
 * Creating a short video which will be added to our St. Teresa website which will help to promote the school by answering the question: “Why is St. Teresa of Avila a Great School”?
 * Having the students share the video with the entire school community at a school wide ‘Builder Award’ celebration
 * Having the students share the video with their parents
 * __Lesson One__: Learning to use the flip camera****Objective: The students will become familiar and comfortable with using the flip camera.**Motivator: Present a flip camera and remind the students of how we will be using them over the next couple of months or so. Background: The teacher must know how to use the flip camera and must have tried it out prior to this lesson and all flip cameras must be fully charged.Materials: One flip camera for each student Lesson Steps:
 * 1) ** Give students their own cameras. **
 * 2) ** Emphasize the importance of caring for the camera and that they are responsible to treat it in a respectful way. **
 * 3) ** Say and show them the function of each item. **
 * 4) ** Have them try each item and show you that they know how to use it. **
 * 5) ** Have students use the flip cameras, filming each other, the surrounding areas and themselves **
 * 6) ** Allow time for the students to view what they have recorded. **
 * 7) ** Have students delete what they filmed, turn off the cameras and return them. **
 * 8) ** Ask students what they learned and how they felt about it. **
 * Assessment:** ** Troubleshoot any problems if needed as you progress through the lesson. Help students if they are having difficulty with the cameras or if they have forgotten what to do. It is useful to allow the students to help each other. If most of them are comfortable using the camera and would like to use it again then you have accomplished what you set out to do. **

This was an amazing project which was easy to use and implement! The students and the entire school community were very keen to embrace it. Flip cameras are an awesome way to capture the excitement of learning and to engage students. The equipment, software and materials were easy to use and to teach to students in grades 1-5 and overall the project was incredibly successful! I would highly recommend this equipment to others. It was easy to use (even with six year olds), easy to download and even easy to create short videos. The flip cameras had great sound and picture/video quality.
 * __Lesson Two__: Learning how to interview** **Objective: The students will become comfortable with using the flip camera and will practice how to adjust their position, the volume and zooming in and out on the subject they are filming**Motivator: Put students into partnerships and give them opportunities to be the ‘interviewer’ and the ‘interviewee’Background: The teacher must model how to zoom in, adjust the volume, adjust the location of the camera and how to hold the camera steadyMaterials: One flip camera for each student Lesson Steps:
 * 1) ** Give partnerships a camera. **
 * 2) ** Review the function of each item. **
 * 3) ** Have them try each item and show you that they know how to use it. **
 * 4) ** Have students practice and model using the flip cameras focusing on the previous areas (zoom, focus, volume and steadiness) **
 * 5) ** Have students use the flip cameras, filming each other, the surrounding areas and themselves **
 * 6) ** Allow time for the students to view what they have recorded. **
 * 7) ** Have students discuss what they did well and what they need to practice (and how they will improve for next time) **
 * 8) ** Have students delete what they filmed, turn off the cameras and return them. **
 * 9) ** Ask students what they learned and how they felt about it. **
 * 12. Websites, tools, or apps that you used with your students **
 * Flip cameras
 * Flipshare software
 * Smartboards
 * Laptops
 * Windows Movie Maker
 * 13. Other unexpected findings from your project **
 * 14. Final thoughts about your project. **
 * 15. Would you recommend others to use this equipment? **
 * __Digital Citizenship – ISTE Standard #5__**

Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behaviour. Students: a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning d. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship
 * //Demonstrate what you did to accomplish the digital citizenship portion of the project. Were you able to integrate any of the above into your lesson?//**
 * __21st Century Skills__**
 * This is a list of 21st Century Skills. Did you witness any of these skills in your students and in the learning activities you provided in the project? Give some examples.**
 * //__Digital-Age Literacy__//**
 * Basic, scientific, economic, and technological literacies
 * Visual and information literacies
 * Multicultural literacy and global awareness


 * //__Inventive Thinking__//**
 * Adaptability/managing complexity
 * Self-direction
 * Curiosity, creativity, and risk-taking
 * Higher-order thinking and sound reasoning


 * //__Effective Communication__//**
 * Teaming, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
 * Personal, social, and civic responsibility
 * Interactive communication


 * //__High Productivity & Quality, State-of-the-Art Results__//**
 * Ability to prioritize, plan, and manage for results
 * Effective use of real-world tools
 * The ability to create relevant, high-quality products

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