Parent Connections

All parents please take the Parent School Climate Survey:
http://apps.gadoe.org/schoolclimate/parents.nsf/Survey.xsp

Animoto with Connections Math

www.animoto.com 

Need your animoto username/password from your teacher

Saving Text as Pictures:

• www.canva.com - Login with Google and use your hallco.org login
• PowerPoint - Save as JPEG
• Paint -Save as JPEG

Animoto Help search:  https://help.animoto.com/hc/en-us

Lauchpoint -- go.hallco.org
Add Canva.com and animoto.com as tiles

Powtoon with 6th Connections

Today you are going to learn a great new technology tool - Powtoon!

http://go.hallco.org

 - Login into Launchpoint and then click on the Google Drive icon

Once you are logged into Google Drive, go to New, More, Connect More Apps, and search and find the Powtoon Edu app

Basics of Powtoon

Powtoon Tutorial Videos (about 1 minute each)
https://www.powtoon.com/tutorials/ 
Powtoon Sound Manager - http://youtu.be/9kXzyI9rX9Q

A Sample Powtoon

Powtoon with Bradshaw ELA

Today you are going to learn a great new technology tool - Powtoon!

http://go.hallco.org

 - Login into Launchpoint and then click on the Google Drive icon

Once you are logged into Google Drive, go to New, More, Connect More Apps, and search and find the Powtoon Edu app

Basics of Powtoon

Powtoon Tutorial Videos (about 1 minute each)
https://www.powtoon.com/tutorials/ 
Powtoon Sound Manager - http://youtu.be/9kXzyI9rX9Q

A Sample Powtoon

2015-2016 Learning Commons Orientation

Orientation Info

Parent Connections: March 24, 2015

Inquiry and Innovation at EHMS



Spanish

Animoto Book Trailer's with ELA 7th

What is a book trailer?

It is an advertisement for a book, just like a movie trailer is an advertisement for a movie. (Think: What would make me want to read this book?)

What makes a good book trailer?

1.       Presentation/Persuasion: A good book trailer has a call to action – The viewer knows where to go to get the book, or where to go to find out more information. (Hint: your Call to Action could be "Read this Book Today" or "Check out this book today at your library")

2.       Content/Storyline or plot: A good book trailer has clarity – The viewer knows exactly what book and what kind of book (genre) is being promoted. The viewer also gets a pretty good idea what the book is about.

3.     Presentation/Interest level: A good book trailer triggers an emotional response – The viewer gets the promise of an experience, one they know they will have when they read the book. In other words, the experience the book trailer creates promises to be the experience the reader will have when reading the book.

Remember:

·   Have a hook for the audience: (i) get people interested/excited about the book (2) grab their attention with the first frame

·   Don't have too much text

·   Set the moods and convey the "feeling" of the book

·   Length is important. Not too long or too short but enough to give a quick "taste" of the book

·   Be mysterious

·   Look at the concept behind the story and don't focus on the details of the book (the minutiae)

·   Music and sound is essential

www.animoto.com

Great Example of a Student Created Book Trailer: https://animoto.com/play/nDg0elZXmBd8eC5mRd9D7A 

·         One thing that makes this book trailer great is that all the pictures are from the internet, and a different girl but the group was careful to pick pictures where the girl looked so similar you didn't realize a different person.