Media Matters
News from the Dutch Fork High School Media Center
Books Before Break
Next Reads 365 goal: 10 books.
Please remind your students to turn in their lists of 10 books by Friday, January 17.
Bring your classes down next week to check out books! The break is a perfect time to catch up on reading.
Dutch Forks Reads Cheat
There's still time to email Mrs. Newman with your name and a one sentence description of what your class did. The deadline is January 10. Then we'll draw 3 classes from the email entries to receive a pizza party.
Thanks to Bill Robinson and Student Council, the literacy committee, and the library advisory committee for their help promoting Cheat.
Photo credit: Blakely Sheely
Share these iMovie tips with your students:
- Create a storyboard, plan, script, etc. before filming.
- Film and create in horizontal/landscape
- Actors: don't look at the camera
- When speaking into the microphone be as close as you can to the iPad
- Make sure you have good lighting
- Hold the iPad steady or use a stand or tripod
- Try to get at least 2 good shots of each scene
- Shoot from a variety of angles
- Don't film from below the subjects
Want more information on creating and using video in the classroom? Click here.
Turnitin update
Students can now upload from Google Drive or Dropbox.
Turnitin also supports the following formats: MS Word, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), PowerPoint (PPT) and plain text.
Thanks to our Teen Read Week participants!
Getting ready for the buzzer...
Book cover puzzles
Balance plus speed
Scholastic Holiday Warehouse Book Sale
Up to 80% off for educators!
December 11-21
971 Harbour Drive
West Columbia, SC 29169
See website for details:
http://www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/events/warehouse/Thanks to our Metric Week participants!
DFHS media center
Email: jcollins@lexrich5.org
Website: http://www.lexrich5.org/DutchForkHS.cfm?subpage=711
Phone: 803-476-3307