Door Scene Part 4 with Editing

This part of the project was a lot of fun.  I wish we had a little more time to use Imovie to edit.  I'm sure if given all day I could have kept changing/adding to the movie.  It was a lot of fun and just showed me what it takes to create a movie.  Lots of work and lots of creativeness.

Flat Stanley App. Review

Flat Stanley:

  Free App

          This application brings the book of Flat Stanley now to the digital world.  Teachers have used Flat Stanley for years to teach children about travel and to discover different cultures around the world.  Teachers would have students create their own Flat Stanley using paper and pencil and then mail their Flat Stanley off to different places for people to take pictures with him in different locations.  This application makes it so much easier and saves you on postage!

When students first get into the application, they will be able to create their own Flat Stanley (or Flat Stella for all the girls out there).  They will be able to give it a different name as well as change their hair, hair color, outfit, facial expression, to make it suited for them.  After you create what your Flat Stanley looks like you can fill in information about him/her.

  When you have you Flat Stanley created you are ready to go out and take pictures.  You can add Flat Stanley into whatever picture you want to take.  After you take a picture you can share it through email, twitter, facebook, or flatter world (flatter world is flat Stanley’s world).  With the sharing feature you can find other peoples pictures from around the world where they visited with Flat Stanley.  You also have the option to see other Flat Stanley’s that maybe around the area with the map feature.

You can incorporate so many different lessons using the Flat Stanley app.  Teachers can have their students take different pictures with their Flat Stanley and then create a story using another app.  They can also have students create a story using others’ pictures.  The possibilities could be endless.

This application is a very easy app. to use where I believe kids young and old and learn to use and enjoy!

Door Scene Project

The door scene project was a very interesting project.  At first, reading the criteria that we needed to follow to complete the project, I really became concerned that it was going to be a hard project to complete correctly.  However, after working and talking with my group memebers we came up with some really good ideas and what I think was a really good project.

When we were asked to complete the second part of the project I really never thought we would have to give our stories to another group to complete.  However, after doing it I really enjoyed the concept.  I especially enjoyed seeing what the group who had our story came up with.  I think this project could be a great project to do with kids.  It would make them work as a group and also really figure out how to set up a story from beginning, middle, and end.  Also, with the second part of the project the kids will have to make sure they are descriptive enough in their story to allow the other group to correctly tell their story!