Making movies with a netbook can be pretty easy using Microsoft's MovieMaker Live. Using just a netbook and MovieMaker, this three minute movie was completed in under 10 minutes.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Webcams Set Learning On Fire!
There are so many productive things that we can do with a good digital camera in the classroom. Unfortunately, we all don't have class sets of digital cameras to use. I would argue that the lack of digital cameras opens up opportunities that only webcams can provide, and we have we have at least one webcam in every classroom, the teacher laptop webcam. If we bring in a campus netbook cart, iMac, Manda or Innovation Station, then the possibilities continue to grow.
District webcam-enabled computers all already have some image capture software installed. Macs: Photobooth, iPad2: Photobooth, netbooks: CyberLink YouCam, Manda pc: AMCap, Windows laptop: Dell Webcam Central. Also available on all district computers are your installed apps like ComicLife, iMovie, MovieMaker, and Photoshop which also let you capture images directly into those applications to be edited or used as needed. (Stay tuned for future post on greenscreening in the classroom!)
Sometimes, we want a little extra creativity in our photo applications or we can't find the installed applications. Web2.0 sites come to the rescue again with online webcam image capture sites. There are many out there, but nice ones include:
* http://htmlchat.net/99/snapshot - has special effects
* http://cameroid.com/snap.php - allows you to create your own gallery online and has special effects
Perhaps you are at home and need an installable option right away. Available for both Mac and Windows, http://www.manycam.com can be downloaded and installed for free.
Webcams can play a nice roll in the classroom. Capture student work, pose students for illustrated stories, videotape oral reports, the list goes on! Engage students with camera technology and odds are, they will come up with other authentic uses as well.
How do you use cameras in your classroom instruction?
District webcam-enabled computers all already have some image capture software installed. Macs: Photobooth, iPad2: Photobooth, netbooks: CyberLink YouCam, Manda pc: AMCap, Windows laptop: Dell Webcam Central. Also available on all district computers are your installed apps like ComicLife, iMovie, MovieMaker, and Photoshop which also let you capture images directly into those applications to be edited or used as needed. (Stay tuned for future post on greenscreening in the classroom!)
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| Fire effect from htmlchat.net/99/snapshot |
* http://htmlchat.net/99/snapshot - has special effects
* http://cameroid.com/snap.php - allows you to create your own gallery online and has special effects
Perhaps you are at home and need an installable option right away. Available for both Mac and Windows, http://www.manycam.com can be downloaded and installed for free.
Webcams can play a nice roll in the classroom. Capture student work, pose students for illustrated stories, videotape oral reports, the list goes on! Engage students with camera technology and odds are, they will come up with other authentic uses as well.
How do you use cameras in your classroom instruction?
Monday, August 22, 2011
QR Codes at School?
Over the summer, I met a good number of teachers in workshops that have already been preparing to use QR codes in their classroom. QR codes are the square bar codes that webcams (with certain software) can read and direct the user to a website, send a text, or perform various other functions. I posted last year, and felt called to post again, about using the small netbooks that are on every campus, to read and use these special codes.
Creating a QR code is pretty easy. The are various sites that will do this for you; http://goo.gl and http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ are two good starting points. You simply type the website address (URL) into the box and click the button to generate the square code. (Goo.gl makes you click the details button afterward to see the code.)
What can you do with codes? Akins High School librarian, Bonnie Hauser, shared a Livebinder collection of links all about QR codes. I saw a couple of middle schools this summer using QRs scavenger hunt or building tour signs to engage the incoming sixth graders during summer camp. One of my favorite online resources is an Englishman named Tom Barrett, who encourages teachers to share ideas in Google Docs, (his 28 Ways to Use QR Codes is now up to 40!) Students can support the community by posting codes for informative purposes in public places.
Great ideas, but you still have to have a camera device to read them. I found that teachers can download and install QuickMark for PC onto the small netbooks that each campus received last year. After installing the software, students can turn it on and point their computer at a QR code. The netbook will read it and preform the action stored within the code.
The following video, despite my repeated reference to Q codes ;( , shows how a large projected QR code can be seen across the room and direct student netbooks to a webpage.
QR codes can provide a functional tool that mobile devices and webcams can use to access data and preform some functions without typing complicated web addresses.
How have you used QR codes? What is another way that a QR code could play a unique in the classroom?
Oh, and you can have artistic fun with them as well! ;)
Creating a QR code is pretty easy. The are various sites that will do this for you; http://goo.gl and http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ are two good starting points. You simply type the website address (URL) into the box and click the button to generate the square code. (Goo.gl makes you click the details button afterward to see the code.)
What can you do with codes? Akins High School librarian, Bonnie Hauser, shared a Livebinder collection of links all about QR codes. I saw a couple of middle schools this summer using QRs scavenger hunt or building tour signs to engage the incoming sixth graders during summer camp. One of my favorite online resources is an Englishman named Tom Barrett, who encourages teachers to share ideas in Google Docs, (his 28 Ways to Use QR Codes is now up to 40!) Students can support the community by posting codes for informative purposes in public places.
Great ideas, but you still have to have a camera device to read them. I found that teachers can download and install QuickMark for PC onto the small netbooks that each campus received last year. After installing the software, students can turn it on and point their computer at a QR code. The netbook will read it and preform the action stored within the code.
The following video, despite my repeated reference to Q codes ;( , shows how a large projected QR code can be seen across the room and direct student netbooks to a webpage.
QR codes can provide a functional tool that mobile devices and webcams can use to access data and preform some functions without typing complicated web addresses.
How have you used QR codes? What is another way that a QR code could play a unique in the classroom?
Oh, and you can have artistic fun with them as well! ;)
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