Connecting the ICT Standards with Grade 4 Literacy

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1 Connecting the ICT Standards with Grade 4 Literacy Idea What it Could Look Like How ICT Connects GRADE 4 Class Poetry Anthology Using HyperStudio, students create and publish an anthology of poetry. Music, voice and effects like roll credits can be used to convey theme and mood. How to add Sound and Voice in HyperStudio WRITING Overall Expectations produce pieces of writing using a variety of specific forms and materials from other media to enhance their writing Specific Expectations use phrases appropriately to clarify meaning READING Overall Expectations read aloud, speaking clearly and with expression ORAL AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION Overall Expectations create media works ICT STUDENT STANDARDS Communication and Collaboration share ideas and information using tool software (e.g., create a HyperStudio stack describing the natural resources and physical regions of a Canadian province) Productivity and Applications accomplish curriculum-based tasks by using tool software (e.g., publish a procedure that includes sound, text, and images)

2 Idea What it Could Look Like How ICT Connects GRADE 4 Retelling of a Narrative Working in small groups, students act out a narrative they have read. The teacher takes digital photos of 5 or 6 scenes. Using imovie or HyperStudio each student sequences the scenes and adds their voice to retell the narrative. How to add Pictures and Voice in imovie WRITING Overall Expectations communicate ideas and information for a variety of purposes and to specific audiences produce pieces of writing using a variety of specific forms (e.g., humorous story) and materials from other media (e.g., photo sequence) to enhance their writing Specific Expectations choose words that are most effective for their purpose (e.g., to describe vividly) READING Overall Expectations state their own interpretation of a written work, using evidence from the work and from their own knowledge and experience Specific Expectations identify and describe elements of stories (e.g., plot, central idea, characters, setting) retell a story by adapting it for presentation in another way (e.g., as a dramatization) ORAL AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION Overall Expectations communicate a main idea about a topic and describe a short sequence of events Specific Expectations use effective openings and closings in oral presentations present information to their peers in a focused and organized form on a topic of mutual interest ICT STUDENT STANDARDS Communication and Collaboration share ideas and information using tool software (e.g., create a HyperStudio stack describing the natural resources and physical regions of a Canadian province) Productivity and Applications accomplish curriculum-based tasks by using tool software (e.g., publish a procedure that includes sound, text, and images)

3 (12) Adding Buttons When you press a Button something happens. You will want to make Buttons to take you to and from each page of your stack. Here s how: This screen will appear: Go to your Title Page Select Add a Button from the Objects Menu Select A Button Type (the top 4 are ones you can see -choose one of thesethe bottom 4 are invisible) Type in the Name of your Button (ex. Past) Choose a Colour for the Name and Background Click OK when you re happy with your choices You will now see the Button you ve just made on your screen...you can click on it with your mouse to place it where you d like.

4 Once you re happy with where your button is placed, click your mouse away from it. The following screen will appear: Under Places to Go Select Another Card The following screen will appear: Click on the Arrow to go to your Past Card (The Card where you have typed in your information about your Past) Then click OK

5 As soon as you click OK the Transitions menu will appear It will look like this: Here you can choose what will happen when you go to the Past card You can adjust the speed of the transition and you can also preview what the transition will look like As soon as you click OK the following screen will appear: When you re happy with your choice click OK Click Done, because hey you re finished making a button!

6 You ll see your button on the screen Click on the Finger (aka the Browse Tool) to press your button! Hey COOL!! Now that you ve mastered making buttons...make one to go from your Title Card to each of your other Cards (Present, Future, Personal Page etc..) Don t forget to make a BACK button on each of your cards to take the person back to your Title Card Hint: To get rid of a Button just select the Arrow Tool, Click on the button and press the Delete key Hey, maybe this is a good time to SAVE!! is keyboard shortcut on a Macintosh (Ctrl S on a PC) (13) Changing a Button (ex. Adding a Sound) Maybe, you d like to add a sound to a button you ve already made...here s how : Select the Arrow Tool from the Tools Menu Then Double Click on the Button you d like to change On the next screen select the ACTIONS choice to go inside your button

7 Here s what you ll see: To add a sound click on the Play a sound choice under the Things to Do Menu You ll see a screen that looks like a Tape Recorder Scroll down here to see some of your sound choices...to hear what they sound like press Play To see many more sound choices, click on the Disk Library To Record your own voice, click on the Record Button When you re happy with the sound you ve chosen...click OK

8 The following screen will appear: Click Done and your button will now have sound! (or any other change you want to make!) (14) Checking over your stack Hey, you re all done...here s a few suggestions. Spell Check your stack Test each of your buttons by clicking on them Add some hand drawn illustrations to each card (use the Paint or Pencil tool) Add some other button actions (ex. animation, movies, New Button Actions) Get a classmate to go through your stack and make sure everything works Add a credits page where you acknowledge the people who helped you Make sure you ve saved your stack Hint: If you are working on a Macintosh adding.stk to your file name will allow your stack to open on a PC

9 Slides, Flips and Turns in imovie imovie can be used to extend and reinforce the concepts of Slides, Flips and Turns in transformational geometry. What s great is that you don t need a video camera...all you need is KidPix or AppleWorks or HyperStudio and imovie...here s how : (1) Open AppleWorks Draw and select the Shape Creator Tool Draw your triangle

10 (2) With your triangle selected, choose a fill pattern or colour...voila your triangle will become that colour (3) Save your first shape by selecting Save As from under the File Menu...you could name it shape1 Click on File Format Select JPEG (or Pict) to make it easy to import your shape to imovie later on Press Save

11 (4) Now, go back to your shape in AppleWorks Click on it with the Arrow Tool Select Flip Horizontally from under the Arrange Menu Your Triangle will Flip 180º Save your triangle as shape2 Don t forget to save it as a JPEG (5) Go back to your shape again, Click on it with the Arrow Tool Select Rotate from under the Arrange Menu

12 Type in 90 to rotate your triangle 90º Click OK and your shape will be transformed Save your triangle as shape3 Don t forget to save it as a JPEG So...let s review...you ve made a shape in AppleWorks...flipped it, then rotated it... you ve saved 3 files as JPEG s...shape1, shape2 and shape3...now we re ready to import your work in to imovie... Let s Rock and Roll!! (6) Launch imovie If you re using an older imac you ll see the screen below...click OK and use the ignoring strategy... you don t need a camera...you ve already made the images for your movie in AppleWorks!

13 Click on New Project to start... Name your project and then click Create (7) You ll see a blank screen..to get your images select Import File from under the File Menu Hint: is the Keyboard Shortcut Navigate to your files... Hint: you can hold down the SHIFT Key and click to select multiple files

14 (8) All 3 triangles you made will appear on the shelf The first triangle you made (shape1) will be highlighted and also appear on the movie screen (9) With shape1 selected you ll notice beneath the screen a time setting...the default is 5 seconds...that means shape1 will appear for 5 seconds in your movie.. to shorten this time to 1 second (because after a while shapes are pretty boring)...click inside the time box and replace the 5 with a 1 (10) Now select shape2 by clicking on it in the shelf and do exactly the same thing (Step #9) to shorten the length it will play in your movie Same again for shape3...now all of your clips will be 1 second long

15 (11) Hold down the SHIFT key and select all 3 clips Drag them down to the clip viewer Press either of the Play Buttons to see what your movie looks like so far (12) Well...pretty impressive...but there s so much more to do! Let s give your movie a Title... Click on the Titles Button Select a Font Hint: Arial Black is perfect for imovie You can adjust the slider to make the font larger

16 Scroll Down to Select the Style for your Title...(Stripe Subtitle is pretty cool!) Select Over Black to make the title appear on a black screen Type in the Title of your first Transformation (Flip 180º) Adjust the Speed to decrease the time your title appear in your movie Click Preview to see what you ve created will look like To place your title in your movie just drag it in to the Clip Viewer in front of shape1 You ll see a little red line as your title is rendered into imovie

17 (13) You can now make the next Title you need (Rotate 90º) by repeating Step #12 Drag the Rotate 90º Title between shape2 and shape3 on your Clip Viewer (14) Now let s add your voice Click on the Audio Button Press Record Voice and Narrate your first Title (Flip 180º) In the Clip Viewer you ll see how long your audio track is...you may want to adjust the length to match your first transformation (or re-record your voice) To move the audio track simply click on it and drag the mouse To preview at any time just Rewind your movie and press either Play Button Hey!...maybe a good time to SAVE!

18 (15) Now let s work on our Rotation... First let s Copy shape2 and Paste it in front of shape3 Click on shape2 Select Copy from under the Edit Menu Move the Slider in the Clip Viewer in to the end of the Rotate 90º Title you ve created Select Paste from under the Edit Menu shape2 is now pasted in front of shape3 in the Clip Viewer... easy huh?? Hint: are the keyboard shortcuts for copying and pasting

19 (16) You can now record your voice narrating the Rotate 90º transformation by following Step #14 Hint: If you move the move the Slider to the start of your Rotate 90º Title in the Timeline Viewer then the audio track you record will start from where your Rotate Clips start. As described in Step #14 you may want to crop your audio tracks so that they match your clips Have you SAVED lately?? (17) How about adding some transitions?? Select the Transitions button Choose the Transition you d like Adjust the Speed (you ll need to make the transition shorter than the clips it s going to go in between...so if your shape clips are 01:00 (1 second) you could make the transition last 00:20 or 00:10

20 To place your transition in your movie simply drag it to the clip viewer and drop it between the clips (ex. between shape1 and shape2, between shape1 and shape3) You ll see the little red line as the transitions you chose are rendered (18) WOW!!! What a movie...to preview it just rewind and push Play After making any changes...you might want to SAVE!! (19) You can export your imovie to QuickTime so that anyone can see it... (without needing imovie) Select Export Movie from under the File Menu Click on the arrow beside Camera and change it to QuickTime

21 For a good quality QuickTime Movie I d recommend CD-ROM Movie, Medium The higher quality you choose, the larger your file size will be... for web sites Streaming Web Movie, Small is a pretty good choice Name your movie and press Save... Your whole imovie will be rendered in to QuickTime..depending on the length of your movie this will take several minutes... While it s rendering, congratulate yourself on a great job!!...hmmm, what s the next project?!?!?