ICT is Fun in Learning

Last week The Boss gave me an excuse to mess around with animoto again. He has to give a presentation to a cross service conference about the work the e-learning committee in Aberdeenshire's education service is doing. As his spot is in the death zone (afternoon, after lunch) he wanted something jazzy to represent why kids seem to like learning with ICT.

So he asked me, and I immediately thought of animoto. I was to do it from the secondary perspective and link it with a colleague's work in the primary.
Although fun to do it was a bit of a bind at times.

1. I recorded some of my pupils opinions on my Marantz pmd660
2. I wandered around school and took some pictures of kids in action with ICT on my Sony Ericsson k800i
3. imported audio files to garageband and edited the best bits
4. created some slides in keynote and exported them as jpeg images
5. used another garageband file to create a kind of dancey techno track

Then I got the stuff from a primary colleague. She had spent a good part of the day filming students in her school and asking why they like ICT. There are some wonderful quotes I wanted to use but unfortunately the audio on the mini dv was so corrupted as to barely useable. I only managed to salvage a few short bits about Google Earth. But this is what I had to do. I am sure some of it would have been easier with Quicktime Pro, but I don't have it...yet.

1. import video to iMovie HD
2. extract audio
3. scroll through film to find interesting bits
4. use grab to take screen shots
5. convert screenshots from TIFF to jpeg
6. select clips with salvageable audio
7. export to garageband
8. delete movie track leaving audio
9. open previous garageband file and import new audio and music tracks
10. mess around with levels and effects

Then I imported my image files and audio files to animoto and they did the rest.

Et voilà!

Comments

[Sheryl A. McCoy]

Adam, you have made another fine video. I especially like the way you increased the audio volume on the adult question about the game, how is it learning and the student's confident response, "It could be an educationl game." Very endearing.

I am posting an animoto update on my blog, and I will refer to your work, of course;D

[Sheryl A. McCoy]

Adam, you have made another fine video. I especially like the way you increased the audio volume on the adult question about the game, how is it learning and the student's confident response, "It could be an educationl game." Very endearing.

I am posting an animoto update on my blog, and I will refer to your work, of course;D

[Sheryl A. McCoy]

Adam, you have made another fine video. I especially like the way you increased the audio volume on the adult question about the game, how is it learning and the student's confident response, "It could be an educationl game." Very endearing.

I am posting an animoto update on my blog, and I will refer to your work, of course;D