Wow! This year we were so proud of all our MADE Award achievements....
5 finalists.....3 winners.....a second place and a third place.
A huge congratulations to all the tamariki in Room 21, you showed amazing problem solving, collaboration, resilience and creativity.
5 finalists.....3 winners.....a second place and a third place.
A huge congratulations to all the tamariki in Room 21, you showed amazing problem solving, collaboration, resilience and creativity.
CREATIVE DIGITAL IMAGE
For this project we used the Everyone Can Create: Photo itunes.apple.com/book/id1434898103?mt=11 to learn about different camera angles as well as using light correctly. Our learning focus was to explore how light could move through objects creating refractions using simple everyday objects. We used CD's, water, glass jars and metallic paper to create different "rainbows of light".
Digital photography is one of the hardest categories to win because there is so many entries and the quality of images is so outstanding. Thats why we are so proud of Amber for winning this category this year, she proved that persistence and passion really do pay off. After our Makerspace session about light, she was so inspired by the refraction photography activity, she spent the following 3 weeks taking hundreds of photos in her own time. She used Snapseed to enhance different images, but a lot of the time, the photos were so amazing there was no need to filter. Here are some of her images.
The winner of the MADE Awards 2018
Year 1-3 Digital Image - Black Water
COMMERICIAL
This project started as a whole class activity after one of our Makerspace session, the story was called Elfrida and was about a sheep who wanted a new hair style. We set the challenge to create a new product for Elfrida and produce a commercial to sell the product, it was an integrated literacy and technology unit which also linked to our TAKP Skills and Attitudes - collaboration, problem solving and questioning. Even though all the students were engaged in this project only one group showed perseverance and determination to get it finished to a high standard.
Learning Intentions:
Learning Intentions:
- Use language features of persuasion such as rhetorical questions, exaggeration, 3 describing words
- Design a product that would help solve one of Elrida problems in the story.
- Work collaboratively using a variety of digital tools - keynote, green screen
Project workflow
First the children thought of a product that Elfrida would love to use, they designed it and made it during class. Then we learnt about different persuasive techniques such as rhetorical questions, exaggeration and description, using the planning sheet they groups started to script out their commercial.
Once the commercial script was written we begun to plan out what the commercial would look like, we decided it needed 4 scenes to match our planning.
SCENE ONE - rhetorical questions, green screen
SCENE TWO - showing the product - Mega photo, green screen
SCENE THREE - special offer - Keynote
SCENE FOUR - rhetorical question, green screen.
We all had lots of fun putting together each scene, there were some challenges and lots of mistakes which we learnt from. Learning how to use Keynote animation was a big challenge, but the children really tried hard and after lots of practise they were all about to use different "build in" and "build out" effects to show their product's special deal.
During this process they used a variety of apps’
Here are the Apps that we used...
Once the commercial script was written we begun to plan out what the commercial would look like, we decided it needed 4 scenes to match our planning.
SCENE ONE - rhetorical questions, green screen
SCENE TWO - showing the product - Mega photo, green screen
SCENE THREE - special offer - Keynote
SCENE FOUR - rhetorical question, green screen.
We all had lots of fun putting together each scene, there were some challenges and lots of mistakes which we learnt from. Learning how to use Keynote animation was a big challenge, but the children really tried hard and after lots of practise they were all about to use different "build in" and "build out" effects to show their product's special deal.
During this process they used a variety of apps’
- Using the iPad to record and photograph themselves in front of the Green Screen.
- Select a background from Pizap that would be eye-catching but not too busy.
- They created fun visual backgrounds using Mega photo app to really highlight their product.
- Using Doink Green Screen App, children merged background and recording.
- After saving this to their camera roll they imported to Imovie to create their commercial. This involved adjusting the sound, adding transitions and Tiles.
- Finally in Garageband they created their own backing music.
Here are the Apps that we used...
The winner of the MADE Awards 2018
Year 1-3 Commercial - The Super Comb!
PHOTO ESSAY
This project was inspired by the work we did for the Dune Documentary as well as the trip to our local beach in Papamoa. During this time we had also been visited by Steven Hathaway who is passionate about teaching children how to look after our oceans. www.youngoceanexplorers.com/about.
We talked about the journey of a plastic bag and how it got into the ocean, where did it start and more importantly how could we stop it? Using the Everyone Can Create: Photo itunes.apple.com/book/id1434898103?mt=11 we studied different camera angles and how pictures can tell a story. Our photo essay started at school and then when we went down to our local beach to plant native plants on the sand dunes, we took more pictures with the plastic bag.
After we took the photos some children used Snapseed to enhance their image then we used Keynote to publish the photo Essay - the alignment tool made it easy to get all the boxes the same size and distance apart.
Here are the apps we used:
|
|
|
The winner of the MADE Awards 2018
Year 1-3 Photo Essay - Journey of a Plastic Bag
Our winning entry was created by Charlotte, she was so excited to win at the MADE awards as she had been a finalist in the past, but this was her first time going up on the stage!
GRAPHIC DESIGN
This little project was created during Māori Language week to encourage children to ask for a hot chocolate at our school cafe. Having just come back from Austin Texas and been completely inspired by all the new updates in Keynote, I decided to let me class explore creating a "poster' using all the images in the App. We studied the "Asking for a coffee' poster ( http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/resources/ ) and pinpointed the information we wanted to focus on, then brainstormed all the images that we could think of to go with drinking a hot chocolate.
I showed the children a few techniques like how to use the colour fill options and changing the gradients as well as re sizing the shapes and layering them. Then, I let them go and be creative!! Some of the ideas were too busy so we had to stop and talk about not putting too much information on the poster, this was the case for colours too! Luke however, worked quietly in the corner and when he showed me his work, I was blown away!!! I knew it had so much potential... and it did! Third place in the MADE Awards, he was so proud of himself and his parents were over the moon.
Third place of the MADE Awards 2018
Year 1-3 Graphic Design
DOCUMENTARY
This term our class was involved in the planting dune program run by our local Coast Care organisation (https://www.boprc.govt.nz/residents-and-communities/care-groups/coast-care/what-is-coast-care/) This links to the Science Curriculum; Living World (L3); Explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to environmental changes, both natural and human-induced. The children were inspired by this topic as we live near the sea and it’s apart of our local environment. The intention of this documentary was to teach other students the importance of sand dunes and how to look after them.
This is our work flow (it took a few weeks!!)
This is our work flow (it took a few weeks!!)
- We learnt about our sand dunes through Coast Care educational videos and went to our local beach to plant natives on the dunes. When we were there we took lots of photos which were used in documentary.
- Next we planned what we wanted our documentary to teach others and delegated groups of children to become experts.
- After researching the groups wrote their scripts and thought about the best tool to use in the documentary
- Using a variety of iPad tools the groups created a clip to add to the documentary - this included;
* Keynote - line drawing animation, Top Tip
* Doink Green Screening - Human Impact, Our Sand Dunes
* Photos - slideshow presentation
* TextingStory - After all the clips were completed we used iMovie on a MacBook Pro to create the final documentary. This involved adjusting the sound to get each part sounding similar, adding transitions and adjusting the size of each clip.
Second place of the MADE Awards 2018
Year 1-3 Documentary
If you would like to find out more about the MADE Awards then go to their website: www.madeawards.com/?page_id=220
or visit their Facebook page www.facebook.com/MADEawards/?ref=nf&hc_ref=ARQJ_yGhPtSZlaW2ObI7q-EyUHPb1Gx4mdK6A4pAQVSDuxuWb9QX1PqeOm2BTXH6RE4
or visit their Facebook page www.facebook.com/MADEawards/?ref=nf&hc_ref=ARQJ_yGhPtSZlaW2ObI7q-EyUHPb1Gx4mdK6A4pAQVSDuxuWb9QX1PqeOm2BTXH6RE4
