We initiated a student-produced news cast this year using iPads. The students write, edit, perform and produce a daily five-minute newscast with school announcements, lunch menu, a daily prayer and pledge and sports and weather. Web link to the media example: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA857CACA25AC4667 Grade Level: middle school School Name: Lumen Christi School This post was submitted by …
Category Archive: Video
Oct 01
Portable Radio / TV
This is my 7th year of producing Portable Radio with junior level students (ages 9 – 11). It’s evolved into two formats: episodes and POVs. Episodes are pretty much variety shows around 15 minutes in length. A POV (Portable Radio Point of View) is my student’s reaction to current events news. We’ve been fortunate to …
Mar 29
Prosthetic Legs: A Video Diary
5th graders in Mr. Simon’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) class at Independence Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, created this two minute video diary using iMovie for iPad to showcase some of the fun and learning they experienced in a recent unit. Learn more on their class blog: http://iesstem12.posterous.com/ Web link to the media …
Feb 24
My Brother Shane
A 2011 Digital Storytelling Project by Alec S. – This project was a collaboration between the high school media specialist and English 9 teacher at Westmont High School and was designed to model best practices in technology integration. Students worked to write and answer essential questions based on life experience. Ninety students participated, with 12 …
Jan 10
Santa Goes to Washington DC
Nov 11
Education Restart
Nov 01
Student Web 2.0 Help Desk
Our student technology group (SAINT Squad – Students Actively Involved in Networking and Technology) has been creating a ‘Help Desk’ for students and staff at our school for a few years. We use Screenr or Jing and post to our wiki page. We create screencasts to show people how to use valuable Web 2.0 Tools. …


Oct 27
Actors Commentary: The Hobbit In Five Minutes
Actors Commentary, Legos, Quick Edit Video, Video
by Wesley Fryer
This is an “actors commentary” video for “The Hobbit in 5 Minutes.” Our cast of four actors and videographers watched the video and shared our own commentaries, using a Sony digital audio recorder. Then we uploaded the original video with a REPLACED the audio track using the commentary audio. Check out the original on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kxIed86bEk …
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