We know that the video shown isn't really possible, but the message it gives is powerful. How can you give a similar impact in your posters? Can this transfer to your Video in computing?
Each group has a subject area to focus on when displaying their poster. What message will you give and what facts, figures and thoughts can you get from your research?
Global Warming and Pollution
Habitat Loss and DeforestationHunting and Poaching
After a lot of thought and discussion on design, watching Mrs Pipers videos and figuring out how the cams would fit inside, it's now time to measure, Mark and pierce holes into our shoeboxes do they're ready to house the cam design. There's been a lot of discussion around designs and how we'll make them work, along with a few ambitious plans! Hopefully it'll all start to piece together nicely over the final two weeks and we can put our measuring, designing and creative skills to good use!
The pictures below show the classes in action... More will be added as we carry on.. :) Video Tutorials
Enter the password to look over the latest Tutorials and see the teachers use their green screen skills and editing to piece together their video!
You can also have a look at and develop your plan for your video by downloading the PDF below which will help you structure your persuasive video. How cool will yours be?
Green Eggs and Aesops Fables!We were very lucky to have two visitors to our year group last week, with Mr Edgar and Mr Davies providing some excellent stories for our year group to enjoy! First was Mr Edgar, who was delighted to return to read in Year 4! We had lots of fun and laughs when listening to a best selling book by Dr Seuss, 'Green Eggs and Ham.' it was fascinating to discover that the vocabulary of the text consists of just 50 different words, mostly repetitive words and phrases! A great choice! Thank you to Mr Edgar for sharing! Mr Davies followed on Thursday with a wide range of Aesop's fascinating fables! It was exciting to see who could work out the morals of these! Old favourites were 'The Hare and the Tortoise' along with
'The Boy who cried Wolf.' The children were attentive and a huge thank you to Mr Davies for his visit to Year 4! In order to put forward a persuasive argument, you'll need to know the threats and problems that your chosen animal faces, and what you can do to help. Remember, the features of great persuasive writing also need to be included in order to evoke emotion and feeling towards your side of the argument. The websites below give you a lot of information about various animals, and are a great way of finding our more about the threats they face. Look through them and see if you can develop a better understanding of what we could do. We'll then think about who we can send the letters and movies we create to! Which animal from the list below will you choose? Will you be able to answer all the questions on your research sheet to enable you to construct a persuasive video full of the features we've looked at in class?
A big thank you to Dr Manoly, who came to talk to us about her work as a dentist and helped us to understand more about our teeth and how to look after them.
The children were thrilled with all the information and Dr Manoly was very impressed with their knowledge and interest. Amazing Videos! Crash Course!
If you want to find out EVEN more about the digestive system, watch these information filled, and rather cool, video below!
Year 4 will be looking to create their own persuasive videos to show the need to help endangered animals in the wild, giving facts and using the persuasive devices that they learn in their English lessons.
To enable them to work well, we're using our school iPads in Computing lessons to look at two programs that we hope will blend together well to help us achieve our task. iMovie and DoInk Green Screen
We've got a few help guides to look at to try and get to grips with the two interfaces, as well as Mr Jones talking through how you can use the apps in a video below. What can you learn from looking at them and can you become an expert in class?!
Saving your work from your folder into an account like dropbox is a fantastic way of making sure you don't lose your work and also allows you to continue to develop your work outside of the normal school day!
(As well as ensuring the iPads don't get clogged up with video!) Each class has their own dropbox space, but with this great power comes great responsibility and you must adhere to the rules. 1) Only access your own work. 2) Only save work that your teacher has said is ok to save - SCHOOL BASED WORK. (For example, uploading an hour long HD movie you've created about your pet dog may be lovely for you, but will take up lots of space and is not necessarily relevant to the work you are doing... and that can be sent in on a memory stick!) 3) Be sensible and considerate. Below is a short video on how you can access your class Dropbox folder for saving and retrieving your work, to carry on with at home and edit further, should you choose to. (Obviously you need the dropbox app, which is free, to make this happen, and the app you're using in school too) Your teacher, or Mr Jones, will give you the password to access this video, if you ask them nicely...
There will also be a step by step guide and another video below showing how to save small green screen projects and mini completed 10-15 second video clips to Dropbox.
You can then develop your work on any iPad you use... exciting stuff eh! Keep coming back to check as the week goes on!
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