Internet Ethics Public Service Announcements

As seen in the “making of..” featurette (below), my sixth grade students have spent the last two weeks writing, filming and editing original 30-second public service announcements about online safety and ethical issues.  Here are a few of the best examples:
Identity Theft
identitytheftpsaweb.mov
Online Bullying
online-bullying-psa.mov
The Internet is Public
publicinternetpsa.mov
Facebook Safety
facebooksafetypsa.mov
Illegal Downloading
illegaldownloadingpsa.mov
I hope you enjoyed these and maybe even […]

More Public Service Announcements

Here are two more examples of the public service announcements my sixth graders made using iMovie and our class Flip video cameras.
This movie is about the importance of throwing trash away and not littering (keep your eyes peeled for a brief guest appearance by Ms. Hansen herself, playing “karma”):
trashkarma.mov
This movie is about another important middle […]

6th Graders Create Public Service Announcements

My 6th grade students spent the past three weeks in class writing, shooting and editing thirty second public service announcements about issues around our school. I will be uploading a few of the movies over the course of the next week. Here’s one about recycling:Here’s one about the importance of proper hand washing:skhandwashing.mov

Art Rage Portraits, Part IV

Another batch of fantastic portraits from my 5th grade students! These ones are in Ms. Gallagher’s homeroom class.

A few people have asked me how these paintings are made. Each student snapped a photo of themselves using the computer’s built-in camera and an application called Photo Booth. Art Rage is a computer painting program, […]

Art Rage Portraits, Part III

Art Rage portraits that Ms. Frank’s 5th graders made in computer class are now online! Nice work overall.

Art Rage Portraits, Part II

A new gallery of art rage portraits is online now! These ones are from Mr. Kass’ homeroom students. A few paintings were turned in without names, so if you don’t see yours in the gallery come talk to me and we’ll see if we can find it amongst the unclaimed pictures. This class […]

Art Rage Portraits

As promised, I’m putting up galleries of the beautiful self-portraits 5th graders painted using ArtRage. I’ll be uploading the rest of the images over the course of this week. The first gallery, Ms. Dorman’s students, is up now.

Check it out!

Scratch Sensor Boards

My sixth grade classes continue to study programming using Scratch. Each student created a game or an application (from scratch, so to speak…), and the (mostly) finished projects are available online on the Scratch Web site.
This week the students were thrilled to get a chance to start using scratch boards in their programming projects. […]

How to Succeed in 6th Grade Without Really Trying

Last week sixth grade students completed a movie project inspired by Life’s Little Instruction Book. The students paired up to brainstorm tips and tricks on succeeding in sixth grade at Lab. They used a nifty program called Inspiration to collect their thoughts and ideas. In rapid-fire mode, Inspiration […]