I visited Year 8 Spanish at Bedford Girls’ School. The girls practised food-related roleplays and used Apple Clips to record their speaking for assessment.
Category Archives: Video
#ClassroomClips at the Science Museum
It’s always good to extend your STEM wings with other departments. I was invited along to join Year 8 at London’s Science Museum by the Bedford Girls’ School Maths Department. Apple’s Clips app was the perfect tool to create a summary video for our school’s marketing department to tweet.
Animating Multi-touch Books with Keynote and iBooks Author
Since Academy, I have been on the lookout for a good multi-touch book project to use animation effectively within. A GCSE PE project has given me multiple opportunities to illustrate – from movements of the joints to the way blood moves through the heart and planes and axes.
I use a lot of vector art, which I draw straight into iBooks Author since it is so quick and effective. (I draw in Keynote too, but by drawing into iBA directly, it is retained as a shape, editable, and is retained as xml so is incredibly lightweight.)
To give you an idea of how this looks in the book, I exported a couple of videos:
Currently constructing a GCSE Physical Education multi-touch book for @Team_BGS which includes a lot of anatomy. Stages of a heart beating drawn and animated using keynote. @AppleEDU #AppleEDUchat @BedfordGirlsSch pic.twitter.com/sfTBoVgM9y
— BGS Digital Creator (@BGS_DigitalC) March 7, 2018
Here is an example of how we’re using animation in our @BedfordGirlsSch GCSE PE book for @Team_BGS pic.twitter.com/CeWO0iEWYZ
— BGS Digital Creator (@BGS_DigitalC) March 21, 2018
Using Apple’s Clips App with Girlguiding
I run a Guide unit each week in a church hall. It’s about as low-tech as I can get in comparison to the day-job, but I think in a way that’s a good thing. When you have a classroom full of students with iPads, it can occasionally make you forget how to approach things unplugged.
Girlguiding is currently changing the programme (loosely, the curriculum) nationally for all units, which is a very positive step. It last changed significantly when I was still at the age to be one of my Guides. This means they are testing activities, refining the offering for this summer. The girls in my unit chose to try out a shadow puppet storytelling activity. As one can’t watch a performance when you’re in it, we recorded their progress just like the students in my classroom might independently with their iPad.
🌟 Presenting Storytelling Silhouettes with 17th Bedford (Priory) Guides. One of the new @Girlguiding programme taster activities.@BedsGuides @BedfordGuides @gguidinganglia pic.twitter.com/6IYnF2lLxv
— Kit (@katigori) March 14, 2018
I compiled a summary of what they got up to using Apple’s Clips App, and then tweeted it. Members of the programme team were delighted to see.
Wow!! Amazing video showing Guides from @BedsGuides having a fab time trying out the new @Girlguiding programme activities- way to go!! 👍👍 check this out @gembenton @ThisIsKatLee https://t.co/BZLT6kR5nf
— Jess Bond (@JessBond247) March 15, 2018
Design Technology, Clips and iPad
I visited KS3 Design Technology lessons to help demonstrate how the students can use Clips to document their practical process in a much more concise and fun way than iMovie.
#ClassroomClips – iBooks Author
Off the back of ADE Academy 2017, we were encouraged to create our own series of #ClassroomClips . As iBooks Author is my specialism, I created a set of clips to illustrate some tricks.
Introducing a new series of #ClassroomClips by Apple Distinguished Educators – #iBAclips – tips and tricks for iBooks Author: #1 Hyphenation pic.twitter.com/YLZzN1YOO1
— BGS Digital Creator (@BGS_DigitalC) July 28, 2017
Final Day of ADE Academy 2017 UK
Final day of #ADE2017 #UK begins…. #ClassroomClips #TiredButEnergised pic.twitter.com/YW8TKwWBmn
— Kit (@katigori) July 21, 2017
#BookWidgets #ClassroomClips
#ADE2017 #UK Project with @sebahalali & @l_mc_c all about @ibookwidgets a clip on how we made our #ClassroomClips ! pic.twitter.com/Ud8ApTNTpB
— Kit (@katigori) July 20, 2017
Check out the first #ClassroomClips in our series: “1 Why Use BookWidgets?” #ADEChat #ADE2017 #UK #BookWidgets @sebahalali @katigori pic.twitter.com/ca0q3fPxeK
— Linda McCusker (@l_mc_c) July 20, 2017
Check out the next #ClassroomClips in our series: “2 BookWidgets Features” #ADEChat #ADE2017 #UK #BookWidgets @l_mc_c @katigori pic.twitter.com/Dm26DDEMIy
— Sebah (@sebahalali) July 20, 2017
#BGSFlexFriday #ClassroomClips
It was the annual day out for all the yeargroups, so James and I both challenged each other to document the day. I went with Year 10 to Alton Towers, and put together this Clip on the coach back.
Y10 @BedfordGirlsSch #BGSFlexFriday at @altontowers #classroomclips pic.twitter.com/OqWjFxfHoH
— BGS Digital Creator (@BGS_DigitalC) June 30, 2017
Wrest Park Quest #ClassroomClips
Had a lovely day out with my Guides at Wrest Park.
I decided to use Clips to show everyone what we got up to!
Great day out with the Guides completing the @EH_WrestPark Quest 🐉 pic.twitter.com/4QBUqWcE26
— Kit (@katigori) June 25, 2017
Experimenting with Clips
With all the news of #ADE2017 still fresh, had to give Clips a bit of a play. It’s definitely rather addictive. I’ve found myself mucking about with it, and I’ve barely scratched the surface of what it’s capable of.
The app feels like a sibling to iMovie on the iPad, while bringing the handy editing features of Photos together. Once I’d mucked around a bit everything felt familiar.
The voice dictation is an exciting feature, and it’s handy to know you can edit the text, as it’s not always spot on.
Definitely need to play with it on the iPad and create some good examples with students and colleagues. Might be a new addition to our Year 7 work on Inside the Computer.
Here’s an example of one embedded in a tweet:
Experimenting with #AppleClips to highlight fun @Girlguiding nights with @BedfordGuides @BedsGuides this year. (Lots of food! ) pic.twitter.com/84czOLqrxL
— Kit (@katigori) April 8, 2017
Apple Distinguished Educator 2017! #ADE2017
I’m in!
I let out an excited squeal when the email arrived from California. I’d just got home from school where I’d been working solidly in the Easter holiday peace when it arrived (us Digital Design Creators still toil while corridors fall quiet).
With only 9 months of work behind me when I made my 2 minute pitch video, I thought I was an outsider.
Still not come down from the ceiling – what a Monday!!
Export Explain Everything to Google Drive
Created for our Year 7 students who are creating their own eBooks about computer systems using Book Creator. The girls completed an Explain Everything presentation about non-volatile storage and then exported it as a video to add to the book. At the end of the course their completed eBook will be graded.
We added the video to their iTunes U course to help.
