Digital Productions

This page is an archive of the digital productions we’ve made at PS 124, and other resources to help foster future productions.

Contents:

• Student Produced Videos;
• Student Web Publishing Projects;
• Lesson Plans, Guides, Rubrics & Resources for Teachers;

Student Produced Videos

Also try the tags: “best of PS 124Brooklyn.com ” or “videos“

Reports

• Reports on Violence in Schools (5th grade, 2007)
• Reports on where our food comes from (5th grade, 2007)
• Reports on Ecology (at the 5th grade film fest, 2006)
• China research reports, slide show videos (3rd grade, 2007)
• Multimedia Pen Pal slide show video about Brooklyn (4th grade, 2007)
• Godzilla, Black Holes, and Robots, slide show videos (4th grade, 2006)
• PSA’s on Truck Mirrors (one is online), a tribute to Juan and Victor (all 3 on DVD, 3rd grade, 2005)

Art/Misc

• Animated music videos using kids and student artwork (5th grade, 2007)
• Native American Postcards, slide show video (5th grade, 2005)

Adaptations

• Sebastian the Great, slide show video (password: use ps124student account password) (3rd grade, 2007)
• Adaptations of student written plays of the classics (5th grade, 2007)
• List Poetry slide show videos (at the 5th grade film fest, 2006)
• Dramatization of friendship issues (4th grade, 2007)
• “ACCESS DENIED”, Persuasive video illustration to the DOE (3rd grade, 2006)
• “The Giver” a movie-style “preview” of the novel (password: use the ps124student account password)(5th grade, 2006)

How-to videos

• Cookbook, How-to video (3rd grade, 2007)
• “Making Guacamole”, How-to video (password: mole) (3rd grade, 2006)

Student Web Publishing Projects

• Rory’s World — Scanned illustrated serial stories (5th grade/library, 2007)
• List Poetry: Nature, Community, Family, Landscapes — Generating poetry though collections 1-line blog comments (5th grade, 2006
• Visit Africa! — “Persuasive Website”, research reports with images (3rd grade, 2006)
• How-To Cookbook — “How-to Website”, how-to writing with images (3rd grade, 2006
• Persuasive Letter to the DOE — group writing project (3rd grade, 2006)
• Research Reports — posting images with research excerpts (5th grade)

Lesson Plans

• iMovie Slide Show Production for Lower Grades (PK-2)
• Storyboarding (updated 2.08) video illustrations — Lesson Plan, Templates, and Activities (grades 3-5)
• Slide show video for reading and sequencing; Sebastian the Great – Lesson plan and ongoing notes (grades 3-5)
  
• Blog book reviews, and Book Review Category for connecting with other schools — Lesson plan and examples (grades 3-5)
• Typing practice Lesson Plan (grades 2-5) with links to Powertyping.com and other games
• Routines for technology use — Student Intro and Lesson (K-5)
• Saving web addresses — Student activity
• Editing student blog comments — Lesson plan and examples
• Video illustration; strengthening our point with video; — Lesson plan (grades 3-5)
• Video adaptation; Ghost Stories – unit plan (grades 3-5)
• Storyboarding an adaptation from book to video; Ghost Stories — Lesson plan (grades 3-5)
• Making a Slide Show Video 1; “The Ghosts of PS124″ — Lesson plan and step-by-step tutorial (grades 3-5)
• Making a Slide Show Video 2; “The Giver, intro” — Lesson plan and step-by-step tutorial (grades 3-5)
• Making a Slide Show Video 3; “The First Ladies” — Lesson plan and step-by-step tutorial (grade 4)
• Making a Slide Show Video 4; “Robots, Godzilla, and Black Holes” — Lesson plan and step-by-step tutorial (grade 4)
• Analyzing movie trailers — Lesson plan and student responses (grade 5)
• Group note taking using blog comments; “Chinese Religion” — Lesson plan and student notes (grade 3)
• Note taking in Word, web search, copying and pasting; “Kwanzaa Scavenger Hunt” — Lesson Plan (grade 5)

Guides, Rubrics and Resources for Teachers

• Persuasive Essay, iMovie, and Reflection — Handout for students
• Internet Research Guidlines (early stages of development 5.08) — Guide for teachers
• Routines for technology use: What we have and how to share it) — Guide for teachers
• Rubric for Informational Writing – 5th Grade Rubric
• Using a Laptop and a Projector — Tutorial for teachers
• New Proxy Settings on Firefox — Tutorial for teachers