By: Deanne Winston and Angela Booth

Hollywood Presents: From Movie Camp to the

Classroom

About the PresentersDeanne Winston Angela Booth Experience teaching

middle school L.A. Masters in Instructional

Technology Facilitated in Tech

Camps on PC and Mac Experience

incorporating technology into the classroom to enhance learning

Ben Hill Middle School Media Specialist

Experience teaching high school and middle English and television production

Facilitated tech camps on PC and Mac

Loves to integrate technology into the standards based curriculum

About our Town…

Fitzgerald Georgia

Rural, South Georgia 80.13% are at or

below poverty level (free/reduced lunch)

There are 775 students at Ben Hill Middle School.

Unemployment rate over 14%

First week: Beginners 9 a.m.-noon: 3-5 grade students 1-4 p.m.: 6-8 grade students Created one short film in groups of

3-5

Second Week: 2nd year students 9 a.m.-noon: 3-8 grade students Created one short film in groups

of 3-5 and a commercial in pairs

Camp was held at the Grand Theatre. Camp was made possible because of a grant which paid for the video cameras and mini PC’s.

Let’s Make a Movie Camp Format

Clamp lights and colored film Netbooks (w/SD card slot) Digital Video cameras w/SD cards Flash Drives Digital Juice Custom Event Tickets-http://www.printwithmypic.com/blog/?p=918

DVD Burner iDVD

Equipment/Resources used at camp

Invitations were given to campers and their parents.

Movie posters were made and displayed in the lobby.

Awards, copies of all the movie projects, and posters were given to participants.

Movies were shown on the big screen at the Grand Theatre.

Oscar Day

Best Picture: Weekend of Terror

Cheap way to decorate Students LOVE to see themselves. Goes w/the Hollywood theme Web address: http://bighugelabs.com/poster.php

Posters

Kids love seeing themselves in video because it is all about them.

You can actually trick them into doing extra work and even homework.

When you bring out the video equipment and computers, they actually get excited.

It is a great way to differentiate learning. Videos can be used as a review.

Taking it to the Classroom: Why Use Video?

Tricks the student into writing the content again

Makes the filming and editing process go much faster

Gives students a focus and less time is wasted You can make the students finish storyboard

as homework. Easiest way to create a storyboard is to have 3

empty PowerPoint slides and print as a handout.

Starts with the Storyboard

Using vocabulary or terms for a specific unit or lesson

It can be used for any subject. Engages students Uses prior knowledge A form of differentiated instruction Can be used for remediation, acceleration,

or review Easy to use instructions and Rubric

Video Vocabulary

Used the Bluford series books from Townsend Press ($1, free audio downloads, and free teacher guides)

Read 1 of the Bluford books Used the audio books w/i-pods to differentiate

instruction Created a short video explaining one of the

literary elements that they were assigned, and then tried to convince their classmates to read their book next

Watched all the videos and then selected next book based on presentations

Elements of a Story

Students create a commercial using persuasive techniques.

Addresses Listening, Speaking, and Viewing Standards as well as Writing and Conventions Standards for 6th, 7th, and 8th Grades

Differentiates Instructions (kinesthetic, auditory, and visual)

Engages students Real World Application Directions and Rubric easy to adapt to your

classroom needs

Commercial

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