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Today we're going to learn how to "make a movie" with Zimmertwins, an easy program to create simple and short movies.

Objectives

Students will:

-- log in to ZimmerTwins,

-- watch the animated audio tutorial How to make a movie to learn the basics of "how to" make a movie,

-- explore and try out some of the features of ZimmerTwins to get prepared for making their own movie,

-- watch a movie I created, based on structures and vocab we have been studying, to give them ideas,

-- learn how to register so they can make their own movies,

-- make a draft movie.

Activities / Procedures

1. watch the tutorial and ask for clarifications

2. explore the software (animation clips, etc) and see the effects created:

    a. talk bubble clips: reads aloud, sings, talks, yells... where you write your text

    b. action clips: chases, flies, hugs, laughs...

    c. close-up clips: surprised, scared...

    d. star clips: typing a newspaper headline...

    e. timeline: bar with the clips; when you add a clip, a sentence appears with underlined words: click to see more options...

    f. longer animations: duplicate (some of the) clips

    g. rewind button below the movie screen: takes movie to the beginning

  h. play button: lets you see the movie from beginning to end

    i. moving slides: click and drag to the place you want

    j. deleting a slide: click on the slide and then click the red "x" (bottom right)

    k. undo: when you make a mistake (arrow at the top of the screen)

    l. save: (button at the top of the screen) before you close the window

3. watch the movie I created for them, My loves & hates

4. learn how to register

5. make their own experimental movie

    a. preview their movie as you add slides

5. watch their movie/end product

More activities / Follow-up

-- send comments about the lesson to this blog

-- register to ZimmerTwins

-- make a movie at home and send the address.

posted by: teresadeca at September 28, 2008 13:48 | link | comments

Blogs to visit regularly

Life is a Feast: "to learn how to use internet tools to enrich my classes and offer variety to my students" (Ana Maria Menezes, Brazil)

posted by: teresadeca at July 02, 2007 18:02 | link | comments

CALL Lesson 10

Ideas

-- revise ideas about time zones through a couple of the maps

-- talk about DST: what it is, are we in it, what it represents

-- read Dennis Oliver's comment #1 in CALL 8 about DST

Most of the U.S. changes time in the spring and in the fall, but most of the state of Arizona does not. I say "most of the state of Arizona" because part of this state (the Navajo Nation, which is on federally-owned land, not state-owned land) changes time in the spring and the fall, but the rest of the state does not. This is confusing, but it's also interesting, I think.

See the following link for more information on the time zones in Arizona.

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/

-- about DST  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_Saving_Time

-- map about DST in the world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png

-- read comments and answers to questions by some teachers (insert clips in lesson, #5, 7, 15, 21) and additional info they give (#5, 6, 8, 13, 15, 16, 21); include excerpts of what is more relevant

-- what is happening in Toronto? what two countries are often mixed up/confused? what season is it in Brazil?

-- see Nina's map and Sasha's video

-- write a general comment about these lessons: how you feel, what you learned and what you can use these maps for

posted by: teresadeca at May 13, 2007 13:36 | link | comments

Web 3.0: interesting links

Metaweb Graph (Nova Spivack)

Nova Spivack articles

Web 3.0 Roundup

Taken from a Michael McLeod Moodle weekend message (May 13, 2007)

posted by: teresadeca at May 13, 2007 10:10 | link | comments

Year 3000

posted by: teresadeca at April 27, 2007 16:10 | link | comments (1)

Letter from 6C

 

posted by: teresadeca at March 14, 2007 18:14 | link | comments (1)

Christmas carols / Cânticos de Natal

Below are six Christmas carols sung by 5th and 6th grade students of Escola de Sto. António - Parede and included in the CD-ROM, "Natal na Santo Antonio" (Christmas at Santo Antonio). They recorded the CD at a studio and it was sold at school before the Christmas break started. It's fa-bu-lous!!!

CONGRATULATIONS to all the students involved, among them 4 students from 6.C, 4 students from 6.D and 5 students from 6.E (my classes), and to the three music teachers, Ana Paula, Elsa and Pedro! What a great job you all did!!!

Enjoy! And... Merry Christmas!!!

To hear the music, doubleclick on the in the mini-consoles below:

Everybody likes to take a holiday

Natal branco / White Christmas

Vai nevar / Let it snow

Jingle bells

A todos um bom Natal

Miscelânea de Natal

posted by: teresadeca at December 23, 2006 18:14 | link | comments

Christmas is here!

Here are two very interesting links sent by my dear colleague, Moira Hunter:

It's a wonderful Internet (Take your time to read it and make sure to move your mouse over the pages and drag the timer and/or brownish arrow; the 'turn page' function is the grey arrow in the bottom right corner)

Advent Calendar

posted by: teresadeca at December 20, 2006 20:08 | link | comments

Lisbon Webheads dinner (10Nov)

Here's a slideshow of our great get-together in Lisbon!

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posted by: teresadeca at November 19, 2006 11:53 | link | comments

More on BaW07 logo

posted by: teresadeca at November 07, 2006 20:55 | link | comments