Cool Ways to Use your Flip!

1. Cool Ways to Use your Flip! Marcia Obukowicz CESA 9 mobukowicz@cesa9.k12.wi.us marciaoat@wikispaces.com 715-453-2141

2. How we tell stories has changed

3. The Recording Era is Here!

4. Using Video • What is the goal for this video? • Always keep this in mind • Captures moments in time • Narration, storytelling sequencing or action • Edit to the best • Watch for By catch • Mac or windows

5. Consider • Establishing ground rules for use of taped materials • Permission to video tape • Other students (Opt out rather than in) • Teachers • Sharing video with parents and family • Managing Accidental Capture: • Human nature • Establishing trust

6. Your Flip Camera On off USB Trash Playback zoom Record Port for connecting to TV

7. Setting time and date stamps • May be important for assessing over time to show progress. • To change these settings press the record button as you power up.

8. Charging • We did the initial charge • Camera charges by attaching to the computer • For best battery long life: • Charge but don’t always leave device plugged in

9. Tips for Flip Cam Use • Get permission from parents to ensure all students are allowed to be filmed and use cameras. • Google “classroom uses and flip camera” for ideas • https://docs.google.com/present/view?pli=1&id=dhn2vcv5_6tv55j7g9 • Tutorial before use. Cuts down on how to use it issues! • Give guidelines. Start with small projects. • Buy a tripod decreases shaky videos! • Delete videos after uploading to computer- camera only holds 60 minutes of recording!

10. Movie Making How to’s • Anticipate action • Keep clips short if possible • Watch out for shaking, too much movement, audio • Remember you can edit so bad sections can be clipped. • Consider the need for audio like commentary, running narrative, clear voice. • Consider good props. • Using zoom in/out

11. What are some ways you would like to use video to help students?

12. Author’s Chair Puppet Show School Performances Show and Tell Oral Reports Social Stories Center Stage

13. Lunch Room or Playground Responses Ask a teacher Guest Speakers Grandparent day School Events Science fairs and career days Post concert After role playing or during a simulation. Reaction Cam On the Scene Reporting

14. Interviewing • The author’s chair • How to do a math problem • Book reports on fiction or science fiction • Ask an “expert”

15. Roving Lunch Reporters • Asking students what’s happening • Going well • How are they doing on lunch noise • Example: recycling and reduction of food waste • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQCr-r_2eE

16. School tour for new students or new visitors Classroom tour for sharing with students from other schools Visitor Highlights

17. Virtual Fieldtrip • When a student is going to an interesting place http://vimeo.com/2813756

18. Point of View • Attach camera securely to the handles of a bike, a baby stroller, hard hat to see the world from different view points • We did a great one of these with a student in the wheelchair out with his family, capturing the responses of folks to him and then having • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEVpJF04i2g

19. Field trips (use for sequencing or review later) Science experiments Social Studies Dioramas Puzzle solving: capture group solving strategies Capturing Learning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCXv23vm4iE&feature=related

20. Take it outside • Explore nature • Explore close up • Track weather • Weather Cam • Capture Clouds

21. Signing or Language • Kids learning to sign or use a new language can use video clips to practice • Post these at the website

22. Make a commercial • For a state being studied • For a book just read

23. Trailers for the school Play

24. Filming Movement • Plays • Music/ concerts • Phy Ed activities for digital portfolio of “improvement” • Playground interactions

25. Video Alphabet • Kids color a letter, hold it up and say it as part of an alphabet video • make word family letters, use students as the manipulatives and video the result for sharing and replay

26. Blue Background/ add a cool background later • Let children video themselves in front of a blue background.   • Put the video into authoring software, add an authentic background image, add chroma-key filters and watch your pupils travel back in time!

27. Classroom Management and Support Digital materials can be shared through email or web! • Quick teacher how to’s • Directions for a project (Power of repeat!) • Student how to’s • Sharing lessons that were missed • Capturing student interactions • Catch them GOOD

28. Quick Capture of Group Thoughts

29. Motivator for task completion • Convey their results to the rest of the class. • Those with work completed vie for “cameraman” • Think DIGITAL PORTFOLIO

30. Videoing interaction • Open Sustain and Close • Behavior Triggers • Leave the tape running, what do you see

31. Sharing Work/ Feedback • Assessing peer work from another class or school

32. Sending the Chicken Soup • Sharing wishes, missed activities to kids out sick. Can email home or post at website.

33. Class Promotion • At parent teacher conference time • At open houses • Lighted Schoolhouse • Web share • Board Meetings

34. Videotaping: Find a partner Find a partner and video tape them answering these 4 questions 1. How are you planning to use this video camera and the videos you make? 2. What excites you about using videos with your students? 3. What concerns do you have? 4. 2 things you hope to complete this weekend.

35. Editing • Open the USB • Plug into computer • Open the Flip share software

36. File New: create 2 files one for video, one for fun things Saving on the computer vs. exporting Raw data vs. finished product

37. Movie making starts with clips • Process: • Make your clips • Make photos or upload photos (jpg) • Adding other videos: (kind of complicated) • Edit clips into a whole movie using magic or full length options • Add credit, music and save • Save on Flip or other

38. Making Clips: Click on the scissors under the video on the right to edit the movie

39. Move slide bars to edit.

40. Save videos clips Name them for easier edits later May want more than one video clip from the source file,

41. Magic Movies • Walks you through the process • Credits • Music

42. Importing other files into flipshare • FlipShare ONLY recognizes the following file formats for Windows:          • • .mp4 (MPEG-4) • .wmv (Windows Media Video)• .avi (Audio - Video Interleaved), and• .jpg for photos • For Macintosh-based computers: • • .mp4 (MPEG-4)• .mov (QuickTime Movie), and• .jpg for photos

43. Import/ Export • File Menu • Export to a flash drive or the hard drive. • Could load to the iPad. • iPad supports: • MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; • Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format.

44. Converting file formats • Try to save it as the new file types • If you need conversion: • www.zamzar.com

45. iPad: Uploading Video • Drag to iTunes of the home base computer or email to the device

46. Need more support • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG6tLSuk1no • Cheat Sheet: • http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/flip-video-for-dummies-cheat-sheet.html

47. Poochi and a video moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2DQC-ghio