The Multimedia Exit Challenge!!!

Greetings, Explorers! By now, you should have a pretty good idea of what we mean by "multimedia." You might ask where we are going with this? Your challenge is to create your own multimedia project. This is what will CONSUME you until the end of the cycle.

Below are some resources. First, we have a couple video examples of multimedia. After that you will find links to the assignment as well as resources to help you in your planning and incubation of the project. P.S. Plan to present your project in class.

Project planning sheets and storyboards should be submitted before the break on December 23. Questions? See me or post them here on the blog under comments.

Click here to view the multimedia exit project!!!! Note: this project requires you to use at least three forms of media, NOT two as the handout says.

Click here to view the multimedia project planning sheet!!!

Click here to view the Multimedia Tools and Tutorial!!!!

Click here to view the image and sound organizer!!!!!

Click here to view the storyboard handout!!!!!!

Exploring Video

Aim: How do we explore video as a media format?

If you have completed your selfie, why not see what you can do with video? You might want to start with gifs, which are short videos that loop endlessly. This blog is full of gifs that I found on the Internet. You can also make your own. Just google "how to make a gif" to learn different ways.

As for making a video, check out iMovie, which is an application on all the Macs in this classroom. Here's a movie trailer the Multimedia class helped me make during the last cycle using iMovie.

The video does not seem to want to upload, so you get access by clicking right here!!! CLICK RIGHT HERE!!!

Warming Up With Selfies

Here is an exercise to get you warmed up for creating multimedia projects.
Click right here to view the step by step instructions!!!!!
Remember, though, as a Multimedia Explorer, you may take this assignment anywhere you want to go.....

Brainstorming!

Aim: How do we brainstorm a multimedia project?

The New York Times recently ran an interesting project that might give some of you ideas for a

multimedia project either about yourself or about Crotona Academy.

Check out this short film and accompanying article from the New York Times called "Kids of New York City" by clicking right here!!! Note that there is a link to a double-entry chart for watching a film, which you can get by clicking right here.

Finally click right here to read "What Makes a New York City Kid?"

We Interrupt This Class For An Important Public Service Announcement

Aim: How do we collaborate on a PSA on an important topic for the Crotona community?   

Quick Write: Brainstorm a list of issues that you believe is important to the Crotona community.

PSAs (public service announcements) are free advertisements or commercials that bring important information or advice to the public.

As a class, we will create a PSA advertising important information to the Crotona community which we will publish on Monday. Yes, Monday!!! It doesn’t have to be long. We should be able to get the message out in a minute or less.

Step 1: We need to agree on our message. What’s an important message that the Crotona needs to know? Click here to see an "ideas list" of topics for PSAs.

Step 2: We will try a video format. We will need to create a storyboard and assign clips.

Step 3: We will need to collaborate in writing a script for our presentation.

Step 4: Shoot, record, and present! We will link our completed presentation to this blog.

To see the rubric for our PSA Click Right Here!

Playing With Videos

Aim: How do we refine our multimedia projects?    

Do Now: Describe some challenge you are having with your project.

Me? I'm trying to figure out how to get a video to work on Blogger. I'm wondering if it's me or the school's WiFi access. Perhaps it blocks all videos.

I'm also having a difficult time saving Jmar's dance video so I can post it here on Blogger. I tried to save it to my Google Drive without much success. So now I am trying to upload an existing video I have on Drive. Not able to do that either.
Help!  

Here's a video I took of Shirley.


This is NOT Shirley.

Works in Progress

Aim: How do we create and revise our multimedia projects?

Do Now: Glows and Grows

Describe one "glow" (success you have had with your project and one "grow" (challenge) you have.

Check out Ashley and Kassie's update on their multimedia project.

Our Work

Click here to see the collaborative birthday card the class created for Danisha!

Storyboards!!!!!

"Failing to plan is planning to fail."

                    --Alan Lakein

Aim: How do we use a storyboard to map our projects?   

This is a storyboard.

Do Now: Review the planning sheets you submitted and revise accordingly.

Most of you submitted your planning sheets. You have all chosen some interesting projects, but you are trying to do too much! As you continue to plan your project, you should find yourself naturally focusing on just one aspect of your topic. There is no such thing as too much planning!

Professionals in all media formats use storyboards to help them plan their presentations. Storyboards are to multimedia what outlines are to essays. Below are two links to two kinds of storyboards that you can use in your planning. Hard copies of the graphic organizer are available in class. The Flip Book is an interactive storyboard.

Click here to access the storyboard graphic organizer.

You could also create a Flip Book by clicking right here!!!!!

Class Selfie!

Welcome to the first post of Multimedia Explorers. We are from Crotona Academy in the South Bronx and this is me, Ms. Becker, with some of my awesome students. We are all learning together about the power of multimedia presentations.

Today we are going to discuss the multimedia project that everyone will be working on to complete this class. See the links to two resources below.

For those of you interested in further exploring the multimedia Web site on the history of the Blues we looked at on Tuesday, CLICK HERE!!!!!!

Click right here to see the mashup of the Presidential debate that I was trying to show you on Tuesday. Maybe you will have better luck on your laptops than I did on the Promethean board.

Click here to view the assignment sheet.

Click here to view the planning sheet.