Deb Norton Tech

For the past week, my students have begun to make book trailers using iMovie .  This is really an amazing app and I am so impressed with how the book trailers are developing.  I will be sharing more about the book trailers in a future blog post. My son Robert was watching me learn how to use iMovie and he also got very interested and decided to make his own movies.  Take a look at how the movies he made turned out. This movie is dedicated to our puppy, Wrigley: Puppy Party from Deb Norton on Vimeo . And this movie is dedicated to Robert's brother, Ryan, who played in a basketball tournament this past weekend in Fond du Lac:- Have you ever tried iMovie ?  It can be a little tricky, so my method of learning how everything worked was to watch You Tube videos.  Here was one video that was particularly helpful: Here is another video that gave me even more indepth information. In iMovie, you have a choice of making a reg...

Mr. Hatlen, our principal, gave our students a challenge when we met with him in October.  He challenged each 5th grade classroom to make a video about leadership.   Making videos isn't as easy as it may seem.  It takes a bit of technological knowledge to put something together that looks presentable when the video is done.  We took on the challenge.   First, our students thought about what they wanted in the video.  We decided to keep it simple and tell what a good leader does.  My co-teacher and I also decided to add in a few chants, cheers and messages along with each students' leadership statement.   Next, we used a Flip Video camera to tape the students saying their leadership statements.  Flip Video cameras do not have a pause feature, so we ended up with quite a few video clips.  I chose the Flip Video Recorder since it takes quality videos. In the past, I have usually used Windows Movie Maker to create a movie wit...