Creative Articles & Media Arts

Wiffiti

Students can text in brainstorming sessions and watch as their words appear under a random username (NOTE: Will not work within HCS school server)

Woices

Students can call in voice narrations (an Echo) to specific geo-graphical locations. Each Echo can be connected together to create something like a guided tour, also known as a Walk. The Walks and/or Echoes can be posted onto an embeddable Google map. There is also a free app that is available for download at the App store.

Geo Graffiti / Voice Mark It

Very similar concept to Woices, also an Itunes app. Call in narrations, but you can get directions to the site that you created the narration for and include pictures with your post. You can even send the post of your recording to someone's phone.

http://www.geograffiti.com/voicemarks/5865

My post creates a geo tagged mark for our school. If you click this link, you will hear my recording on our Grid Portrait project

(NETS-T Standard 3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning)

Yodio

You can use your cell phone or computer's microphone to record narrations to pictures. The website can then combine the narration and pictures into an embeddable movie. You can see below the examples of public domain images on Rome to be combined with student's research.  

(South Carolina Social Studies  Standard 6-2:   The student will demonstrate an understanding of life in ancient classical civilizations and their contributions to the modern world.)

( NETS-T Standard  4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices.)

Xtra Normal

By utilizing more texting abilities of the students, they can easily type out a message that is transformed into the speech of a three dimensional animated character. You may have seen Xtra Normal's GEICO advertisement, or that you would be interested on visiting their site and download the program to make bigger scenes, or you can get the free app at the App Store and you can send movies via email or embed into a web site.

For this project, I collaborated with the 7th grade Science teachers while their students were learning about the skeletal system. I wanted to teach them about anatomy, so I had to see what their pre-existing knowledge was on the subject matter.

SC Science Standard 7-3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the functions and interconnections of the major human body systems, including the breakdown in structure or function that disaease causes. (Life Science)

Animoto

The web site easily allows you to combine images, eye grabbing transitions and music into an embeddable movie. I have compared that students can now make a thirty second propaganda movie in about one class period, where I used to use Microsoft Photostory and spending four days. You can utilize a free account on the web site, or pay a reasonable amount for more options or just stick to the free app at the App Store. SC Visual Arts Standard

VAH4-3.3 Select and effectively use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning through his or her artworks.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.