We will work with multimedia resources to create a movie trailer for a book. Participants will have the opportunity to draw characters and animate them using the online tool Animated Drawings from the Meta AI.
Grade level: PK-5
Skill level: Beginner
Purpose & objective
Employ digital resources to motivate students to increase reading interest. Explore some uses that may have Animated Drawings (from Meta AI) in development of learning resources. Applications of iMovie.
Introduction (5 minutes) Draw characters: participants remember the last book they read and draw as many characters as they want. (10 minutes) Animate the characters: they follow the instructions to animate the characters they drew. (10 minutes) Producing a movie trailer: participants will import the animations to iMovie and they are going to produce a movie trailer for the book they read. (20 minutes) Presentation of the works (15 minutes)
Teachers, Teacher education/higher ed faculty, Technology coordinators/facilitators
Attendee devices:
Devices useful
Attendee device specification:
Laptop: Mac Tablet: iOS, Android, Windows
Participant accounts, software and other materials:
iMovie or another video editor.
Subject area:
Language arts
ISTE Standards:
For Educators: Designer
Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.
For Students: Creative Communicator
Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.