Room 1, Hedgehope School, Year 7&8. Teacher: Amy Thacker.

Room 1 produced videos of their experiences of Camp - to share their ETOC learning.Two Room 1 students based this presentation on their learning experiences and reflection camp at Waianakarua. The presentation was created using an iMovie trailer.

Each team from the camp produced a trailer as it was a new tool to enable them to share their learning and experiences. The students shared this at their Celebration Afternoon.

In this short movie we intended to show the watchers/viewers how important it is that we learn first aid in school.
We intended to:
inform pupils/adults how important first aid is in an exciting, fun way in a movie that is aimed at all ages.
prove that first aid is not a waste of time and can be used at any point in life.
To make this movie we had to learn a new range of editing skills such as green screening, inspector tools, clip trimmer, background noise reducing, transferring media from different devices, and lots of problem solving discussions. We also had to be patient and respect our actors have their own projects to work on and not juse ours, so time management skills were also important.First of all we planned our movie, who's playing who, where the scenes are going to be shot, whose going to film/edit.
We then planned out each scene part by part and asked who would want to be involved. We then gave our actors scripts and gave them time to learn it. After that we filmed the scenes and the actors were involved in (sometimes multiple times) until we got a reasonable results. Once all scenes were filmed to a reasonable standard we emailed all clips and imported into our classroom desktops/laptops. We edited in imovies and added transitions in between parts. We learnt many new iMovie skills and how to apply advanced tools to improve our movie.

All year 7 & 8 girls took part in a 3 day self defence course. Our objective was to show others what we learnt. We chose to create a documentary which not only shared our new knowledge, but also past knowledge from previous topic covering bullying.
How to use green screen with Do Ink Green Screen app, and also using straight recording with green material as background and applying green screen skills in iMovies. We learnt how to crop edges off the film where the green screen didn't spread wide enough. We also learnt how to adjust audio sound when layering a variety of media files on top of each other in a timeline. When using different devices we had to learn to export using email, airdrop, or cloud file sharing.Year 7/8 girls went to a self defence course earlier in the year which helped us learn about defending ourself and discussed different types of bullying. A member of our group came up with the idea of creating a documentary to merge the two learning areas together. We wrote a storyline and took on parts ourselves. We also brought in members of our classroom to act out the bullying scenes. Not many girls in our group were familiar with iMovies so we all learnt lots of new skills. Great teamwork, persistence, problem solving, patience and trying new things were all important to help us complete this documenatry.

During Current Events and persuasive language, Campbell live prompted a huge debate around where the cheese roll originated from. This spurred us into creating a fun documentary using 'My Kitchen Rules' as a storyboard placeholder for the discussion.
We learnt how to use existing characters from tv shows to fit into a current event script. Record using green screen and export to an imovie timeline. We also tested and used the best settings from around the school to video a few scenes. Learning how to trim footage precisely was tricky and we would look to improve on audio recording as it was difficult to adjust all audio clearly enough within the imovie tools. We lost some footage and we realised how important re-viewing our timeline was so that the story flowed and make sense. Putting footage in the correct order was also important.At the start of term 2 we studied persuasive language, also in June we used Campbell Live and the Cheese Roll debate to spur on persuasive language skills. We were asked to use any media to persuade an audience on a topic, which is why we used this current event and also the very popular 'My Kitchen Rules' program as a template to develop our project. We gave each member of our team a role to play and tried to match up a persons character with the character judges in My Kitchen Rules. We recorded in many areas around the school using Do Ink Green Screen, iPad video camera and iMovies on the classroom MacBooks.  

Our main learning intention was to inform others about WW1 and to improve our own understanding of the subject.
We created our project using minecraft because we thought that the audience would enjoy watching something they use to create themselves. It developed our skills and improved our building skills. We learnt how to record our minecraft video using AirServer which projected our iPad screen onto our classroom Macbook Pro screen. We then learnt how to export the recording into iMovies where we used the editing tools to create our project. We also learnt how to use tellagami which acted as a tour guide to deliver the facts around WW1. This year was the 100 anniversary of WW1 and has been an important subject studied in our classroom and because we have enjoyed the subject we wanted to share our understanding with others. We also went to the Capital E performance at the civic theatre which continued to inspire our project. Minecraft is something we use a lot on our devices at home, and we have a minecraft club at school.
We researched many facts about WW1 and started planning how it would look using minecraft. We started to build trenches and memorial. We recorded scenes and facts using airserver, tellagami and voice recorder before bringing digital files together in iMovie.

Use digital media to share with others an area of the History of Winton School from our Term 2 Inquiry Topic
- Read old architecture plans and convert measurements from yards & feet, to inches, to metres and centimetres.
- use minecraft tools to re-create a historical building of our school.
- use tellagami as a tour guide to guide our audience through a building, sharing facts learnt from our topic
- export video footage from one device to a timeline in iMovies.
- use green screen and editing skills
- edit audio files to reduce background noise of other elements to create a clear message.
- problem solve how to record minecraft from an iPad screen before exporting into iMovie (this was done using AirServer from iPad to Macbook)
- work co-operatively to complete a projectIn Term 2, we were studying Winton School and its history. We both took an interest in the architectual drawings of the original 'H' Building on the main street of Winton. Before we could start we had to overcome a few problems, such as converting from old measurements (yards, feet, inches) to new measurements (m, cm). We used our maths skills to calculate all conversions before re-creating the old school buildings using Minecraft. Tellagami is a new app learnt this year, so we thought we would use it instead of ourselves in green/screen. Timing our voice to fit within the minecraft video tour was tricky at times and we had to re-record a number of times.

Jack & Tommy, Halfmoon Bay School, Year 7&8. Teacher: Kath Johnson.

In the April school holidays Jack & Tommy's family were invited to visit Little Barrier Island where their grandfather had lived and worked as a ranger in the 1970's. Their father lived on the Island when he was a child and his primary schooling was done through the Correspondence School. Unfortunately the dates for the trip to Little Barrier meant Jack and Tommy would miss the first week of term two. I suggested they recorded their excursion using video footage and photos and on their return, use their school MacBook to make a documentary about their trip to Little Barrier Island.
Tommy and Jack filmed their adventure on a GoPro2 video camera - still shots were taken on a Fujifilm XP camera. They used iMovie to make the film - skills involved were: editing & cutting footage, writing a script, using voiceover to record the audio and adding music and sound effects.

Group A, Room 11, Winton School, Year 4-6. Teacher: Grant Chapman.

To create a resource that helps junior students use the library correctly.During 2014 one student at Winton School managed to 'take' 19 books from the library (unissued and without permission). This started a discussion about how the senior students might help the junior students learn the correct way to issue a book. As the teacher I passed on this to the Year 6 students and told them to make a resource designed to inform students about the correct way to use the library. The students have many hours in front and behind the camera and editing from broadcasting the daily NEWS so I left them to it. Apart from 'topic choice' everything is 100% theirs.

Rimu, Myross Bush School. Year 1-3. Teacher: Keri Burton.

Our Juniors were in need of some help to promote the milk in our schools. The junior found is very hard to fold their milk by themselves and it was taking a very long time. The children brought it on themselves to help the classroom out and create a documentary in aide of this. What happens when we drink it dry? Where does the milk cartons go to when they leave our school. To show our juniors all about milk in schools in New Zealand. We had to study what happened to the milk cartons once we drunk the milk dry. Noah Lovelock did all the videoing and editing. Carter Dermody, Jack Scott and Sam Scott did the talking and acting out The script was written by all three of them with a little input from Miss Burton. 

Room 11, Waverley park School, Year 4-6. Teachers: Sharon Witheford and Helen Kennedy.

Digital Citizenship
In acknowledging ourselves as digital citizens we have been learning to recognise the importance of protecting our private information online, the value of taking responsibility for ourselves and our actions, and the necessity of treating others with an appropriate standard of behaviour online. But sometimes people can be mean on the internet or on a mobile phone just like people are mean in real life.

Our group has created a video sharing a message about cyber bullying, in the hope that it will lift the awareness level of those using digital technology.
‘Moonlit’ Films
The purpose of our movie was to get the message of ‘Speak up about Cyber Bullying’ across to our audience.

First we used a story board to write and draw what was going to happen in our movie. Then we added technical features to show how we were going to shoot our video. We then selected our characters and the settings that we were going to use. We used a video camera to shoot our movie. The features we included were panning, high, medium and low shots, zooming in and angles.

After filming we edited our movie using imovie. When we came to add our music we wrote our own song and got Ruby and Mr Hawkins to record it for us.

We achieved our goal of portraying the message to an audience about Cyber Bullying.