Tech Tuesday Updates
September 18, 2018
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Green Screen Lesson Ideas! By Tricia Fuglestand
Spin into the art
(green screen, digital storytelling, video effect, illusion, relative size)
Students can create the illusion that they are jumping or spinning magically from the foreground into a painting. View this post to learn more.
Silhouette Blends
(silhouette, figure-ground illusion, profile, symmetry, voice/audio, speaking, vocabulary, animation)
Re-create the silhouette blend videos first seen on Electric Company explained in this post.
Book Cover Photo Shoot
(green screen, drama, body language, digital drawing, Dr. Seuss, digital drawing)
Students can pretend that they are posing for a book cover photo shoot using this lesson and book templates.
Snow Globe Effect
(transparency, animation, green screen, snow globe)
Students can put themselves in a snow globe as they learn about layers, green screen, and transparency. See post for a tutorial and resources.
Small as a Mouse
(relative size, green screen, digital layering, proportion, contour line drawing, A Nest for Celeste, point of view)
See post for creative ways to explore relative size.
See post for ways to connect with the book A Nest for Celeste by shrinking yourself to a mouse's point of view.
Moving Postcards
(layering, green screen, graphic design)
See post to try this Harry Potter styled effect to create your own moving postcard with the Green Screen app by Do Ink.
Magic Carpet Ride
(symmetry, pattern, perspective, green screen, imagination, world landmarks, paper cut animation)
Use post to learn how to make a patterned carpet that you can magically fly over the wonders of the world like Aladdin. This post shows two approaches: Digital drawing over a digital animation and a paper cut stop-motion animation.
Haunted Masterpieces
(art history, transparency, layering, green screen effect, body language, storytelling, horror genre, fiction, creativity)
Students can combine art history, digital video effects, and creative writing as they haunt a masterpiece. See this post.
Class Dance Video
(dancing/movement, music, green screen effects, radial designs, layering video, collaboration)
Have your students contribute a couple seconds to a collaborative dance movie. See my post to find out how.
Video Custom Hologram
(hologram, pyramid, rotational symmetry, flipbook animation)
Customize a hologram video, make a pyramid template from a transparency, and haunt your classroom. View post for template and tutorial.
Reminders
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO TEACH DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP THROUGHOUT THE YEAR?
Please read the following articles...
Ten Questions about Ed Tech to Ask your Kids Teachers
Digital Citizen, Norma Jean
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