DON ABEL - NEILLSVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TTT FALL 2003 01:01:32;10 01:02:17;02 [00:00:44:20] TTNEILS1 :project start: CUT #1 - The project started out a summer class that we took up at Chippewa Falls with a joint venture with Cecil 10 and the ECB where they took all the digital, all the Wisconsin video that we have on our tapes and digitialized it into small clips that would focus on one topic. Say we wanted to do Indian mounds, we didn't have to watch five different videos to get 10 minutes of Indian mounds. And we, then the idea was to bring that back to the classroom, use those digital clips in a lesson that we had previously taught and use those clips to try to enhance the lesson. We chose to do the five regions of Wisconsin, Lake Superior lowlands, those five. 01:02:26;09 01:03:14;21 [00:00:48:10] TTNEILS1 :how started project: CUT #2 - What we did with those five regions is we started off with a blank map of Wisconsin with not blank, with the cities, the lakes, the rivers and then did a graphing activity where we plotted points on the graph, on the map using different Wisconsin cities to initially draw out where the five regions were. So the kids discovered which were the five regions of Wisconsin. From then the next day we went down to our multimedia room, both my class and Mrs. Miller's class and watched the entire video on landforms of Wisconsin that includes the five video clips we will use later on. We watched that video. We came back to the room and did a little map activity drawing in the different regions on the map and labeled them. 01:06:13;08 01:06:38;15 [00:00:25:07] TTNEILS1 :advantage to digital video: CUT #3 - I think the major thing about using this video is that instead of having to watch that entire 15 minute video to show something that's maybe two or three minutes, you can just show that two or three minute clip. It's going to save us some time. And if, on some of the other Wisconsin tapes there's more about the regions, we can pull those clips in too, or Indian Mounds or whatever topic we use. 01:03:14;21 01:04:42;23 [00:01:28:00] TTNEILS1 :using digitial video: Then we got to the point where we started to use the digital video. CUT #4 - We brought the digital video into the classroom, broke the kids into five groups, one for each region and they would then watch their clips on the computer. The first time they watched they watched it with the sound off. Then they watched it again with the sound on. And then the third time they watched it again with the sound off. The reason being we're planning on taking those clips and transferring them into a, into an iMovie. And we're going to remove the sound that is on the original clips and the students are going to write a script for the video showing, talking about what's on the screen. So they'll make their own clips which we're then going to encorporate into a larger iMovie. While they're doing these scripts they are also writing reports on the different regions. They're doing research with our high school media specialists coming up with important cities in their region, what river and lakes are in their regions, land forms, how their region's different than the other parts of the country or the other parts of the state, forests, anything that's interesting in their, in their region. And then without the kids, then the three of us are going to get together, do some editing, do some writing on, put their script together with the clip and hopefully make our own 10-15 minute video all about the five Wisconsins, the five regions of Wisconsin. 01:08:47;15 01:09:34;15 [00:00:46:28] TTNEILS1 :script goals: CUT #5 - We did set up a rubrick, basically one for every day of the project so there's only one section that deals with actually the script. The main thing in the script is when they're talking, are they talking about something that's on the screen. It there's a picture of Rib Mountain on the screen, are they saying something about the northern highlands is the highest part of Wisconsin. Or if Rib Mountain is on the screen, are they talking about the Mississippi River, then, then they didn't get the point. So bascially they use their script corallating with the video clip, and not word for word what the original is on the clip. That's starting today actually in the project. There's no more audio on the clips. It's just what do you see, what are you going to write. 01:04:47;09 01:05:14;25 [00:00:27:14] TTNEILS1 :how do voice over: CUT # 6 - The students will be doing the voice over. We'll take them into a either the high school library or maybe or classroom at lunchtime and record their voices into iMovie. And then we'll move it around, do some editing which is probably not a fourth grade topic but I know our high school students do some editing with iMovie, so they can help out, or I've done a little bit so I, and our high school media specialist has done some, so. 01:09:56;17 01:11:04;01 [00:01:07:12] TTNEILS1 :length and assessment: CUT # 7 - The clips run from between 36 seconds to just a little less than a minute, depending on which, which region they have. We're expecting that the presentation they give that we're videotape, would end up being 3-4 minutes, 3-5 minutes, certainly no long than five minutes, when we have to put five of them together, and then they'd end up with, you know, a half hour show. It would get too long, the tape that we would create. As far as the assessing of it, a lot of it is exposure. Using the iMovie, they're going to get a chance to see a little bit of how we do it. Hopefully this year, they'll get a chance to use the lion movie. Most of it is, is the exposure type thing, are they familiar it. There will be questions about the regions afterwards. Do you know about your region? Did you learn anything from the other regions? You have the Lake Superior lowlands, what can you tell me about the northern highlands? Did you learn from your friends videos? So hopefully, hopefully they'll get some knowledge of the region. 01:18:32;17 01:19:11;07 [00:00:38:18] TTNEILS1 :PT conference plans: CUT # 8 - As sort of the culmunating experience on this is to put all the videos together. First of all show it in the classroom. Let everybody see what their classmates have done and then put it all on that video. And then the night of parent teacher conference, or the day of parent teacher conference, we'll have the video out in the hallway in a television running on a constant loop, giving the parents a chance to see what we've done and how that works. Sort of a chance to justify the amount of technology that we have in our school. Because we are a fortunate school as far as what we have for technology. I feel we, we're pretty advanced for our area, for our size. 01:09:56;17 01:11:04;01 [00:01:07:12] TTNEILS1 :length and assessment: The clips run from between 36 seconds to just a little less than a minute, depending on which, which region they have. We're expecting that the presentation they give that we're videotape, would end up being 3-4 minutes, 3-5 minutes, certainly no long than five minutes, when we have to put five of them together, and then they'd end up with, you know, a half hour show. It would get too long, the tape that we would create. As far as the assessing of it, a lot of it is exposure. Using the iMovie, they're going to get a chance to see a little bit of how we do it. Hopefully this year, they'll get a chance to use the lion movie. CUT # 9 - Most of it is, is the exposure type thing, are they familiar it. There will be questions about the regions afterwards. Do you know about your region? Did you learn anything from the other regions? You have the Lake Superior lowlands, what can you tell me about the northern highlands? Did you learn from your friends videos? So hopefully, hopefully they'll get some knowledge of the region. 01:18:32;17 01:19:11;07 [00:00:38:18] TTNEILS1 :PT conference plans: As sort of the culmunating experience on this is to put all the videos together. First of all show it in the classroom. Let everybody see what their classmates have done and then put it all on that video. CUT # 10 - And then the night of parent teacher conference, or the day of parent teacher conference, we'll have the video out in the hallway in a television running on a constant loop, giving the parents a chance to see what we've done and how that works. Sort of a chance to justify the amount of technology that we have in our school. Because we are a fortunate school as far as what we have for technology. I feel we, we're pretty advanced for our area, for our size. 01:08:10;28 01:08:33;27 [00:00:22:29] TTNEILS1 :Positive student reaction: I think so. I think watching these on video is so old hat for the kids. You know, when we're watching another video, we'll sit back and the lights are off and we're not really going to do it. But CUT # 11 - technology and students is still at the point where they're so excited by it, that no matter what you do on a computer, that it's going to get more of their attention. So I think that helps. 01:15:55;25 01:16:33;12 [00:00:37:15] TTNEILS1 :benefits of technology: CUT # 12 - I think one of the biggest benefits of the technology is the students can work at their own pace. It's the chance where the students that are really advance fly through it and pick up so much, and if you're prepared and you know more technology, or more things for them to do, they can just go so far above and beyond. And then the students that are having trouble, can go at their pace and get down basically the basics that you wanted them to get out of the program or out of the, the technology that you were using and everybody benefits from it. You don't have to teach at the middle anymore. The technology lets everybody learn.