Hi Friends,

We tried out the iMovie App for the iPad with the first graders.  They had so much fun, and they picked everything up so easily.  I have a small group of first graders to work with, so I'm sure that makes completing a project easier.

The students were to make an iMovie to teach their Kindergarten classmates about the H Brother digraphs, CH, SH, TH and WH.  These are the steps we took in completing this project,

•  With partners, they found items around the classroom that began with their assigned digraph. 
•  Then they took turns taking pictures of their partner holding the objects. 
•  Next they imported the pictures into iMovie.
•  After that, they recorded their voices saying the names of the objects. 
•  Finally, they adjusted the clip length to match the audio length.

The last step was saving the movie to our classroom dropbox, which I helped them with. 

Here are a few of the clips. 

 

 

Now we can put the clips into one iMovie project or show them individually.  One thing that is interesting about the app is that the movies are easily shared to You Tube, Facebook, Vimeo or iTunes.  This makes it easy to share the work with families.

Things that worked:

•  Small groups and partners

•  Play time before work time

•  Projected the making of a sample project first.  

•  Showed a sample project

Things to change:

•  Students should be more careful about the quality of the pictures.

•  Include more items.

What do you think? I'd love to hear about your ideas of how you could use the iMovie App in your class.  Next, we'll try a project using Explain Everything, a screen casting app for the iPad.  I should have the project up by next Monday!  Wish me luck!  

Best,

Lenora