App Smashing

App smashing with Minecraft is an amazing experience. Over a two hour period we take the students on a high speed journey of using a wide variety of apps to create an outcome.  While the initial outcome is not important the general idea is to allow students to see how different app can integrate with each other and open the students minds to other possibilities.

Currently the students have learnt to screen capture still shots of Minecraft, moving pictures using iShow you. Manipulate the images using Paintbrush, Crazytalk, recording their own voices, editing in Final Cut Pro X, exporting outcomes to iTunes, viewing the outcome in Quicktime and how to save and label the file onto our storage server.

Students are now beginning to see the possibilites and how the fairytale or fable can come to life on the screen.

I will post some of the first rough prototypes in the next few days.

Session 4 Planning

Session 4

AFK

Check on the progress of the pieces of writing that each tea is developing i their classrooms. Give them the goal of having a story board prepared for the session next week.

Discuss App Smashing

We do it every day. Today we will be using, minecraft, ishowu, final cut pro, itunes.

Focus for teams:

Moving in the same space in the Minecraft World, coordinating the movements for in a preplanned way.

“Acting” in Minecraft. Chrisi and Gene to show how two avatars can be in one scene moving together, to look like they are acting.

 5mins

iShowu – Gene to demonstrate the use of ishowu to film live action i minecraft.

 5 mins

Teams must negotiate the roles of camera person, director and actors.

Work out a set of movements or action the “actors” can complete in Minecraft that will be filmed by the camera person. The actions can be directed by all team or a nominated director.

Run through an on screen rehearsal. Camera person can give cues. (practise)

10 mins

In World

Locate the team mates

Have the camera person in a position where they can see all the actors in their team.

Use words, action and cut to give actors their cues.

 10 mins

They will use ishowu to film the action.

Import the film to final cut pro and then share to itunes drag to desk top then save to class file on the macstudent server.

30 mins

A new year and a new Minecraft day.

Students in 4-6 are doing a new project with a literacy base linked to Minecraft this year.  The idea is to transition  students into the Virtual World for Year 7-9.

Students are required over a fourteen week period to take a fable, re write it and create a script for a film.  This work is done back in their home groups as part of their literacy learning.

During the student's Minecraft time they are expected to build sets, capture screen shots to use in Crazytalk for animating voices and pictures and capture movement using ishowu, the final films will be edited in Final Cut Pro.

Session 2 grades 456 Minecraft skills

Skilling our Minecrafters in software use in prepartation for film making in weeks to come.

Session 2

Using multiple software to create one end product or publication

Students log into Minecraft and find a place to stand in a position; another avatar takes the photo of the partner. Save image and export the

•             Minecraft

•             Command shift 3 to Screen Capture their Minecraft Avatar

•             CrazyTalk

Prepare an introductory statement that will be voice over for your Minecraft avatar.

In World

Activity

Log in to Minecraft

Photograph a partner’s avatar

Save the image to desktop

Import the image into CrazyTalk – setting the facial markers

Voice – script a brief of introduction

 File

 Export movie

Video – name the file allow it to export.

Save it to the class Minecraft file on student server. Save the movie file to 46F, 46 I 46 G folder

AFK

Screening

View each other’s avatar introduction on the large screen

 In world

Part 1 Teams  locate their build site and keep working o the Castle they started to build last week.

In world challenge

Part 2 Tallest tower

Each team member must choose a different brick colour

Build a 10x10 tower each working on a wall. Tower must go up at an equal rate. You can change your colour brock you help a team mate to catch up. Goal is to build the tallest tower in 8 minutes.

Session 1 The Fabulous, Fairy tales and Fables of Minecraft

A new year and a new project.

Hello. We are back on deck!!

Our focus is to give our students and colleagues a new epxerience and an altenate option for the published piece, product or outcome in a unit of work.

We want them to use many types of software and combine them into one end product. Our starting point is the writing component which begins in the classroom. The focus on literacy and immersion in the narrative text type, this will evolve into script writng using the known text of fables and fairytales. This is the basis of student writing. We will be using minecraft as the medium to visually express ideas and form the basis or set for a film.

The Fabulous, Fairy tales and Fables of Minecraft

Work program - MinecraftEdu - Doveton College

Year 4-6

Term 1 2014

Session 1

AFK

Minecraft fairy-tale film created Gene.

Story board with annotations. Photo of these…

Screen for the children on the TV

Discuss the structures with the film.

Touch on each of the software used to create the film.

Discuss the use of multiple pieces of software combined to create on end product.

In World

Get in world and have a go!

Moving the avatar - keys and functions

Build and deconstruct

AFK

Teachers to group the students (trial for film crews)

Each team is tasked with building a castle in world

·         Design – draw a design of what your team plans to build, rough sketch to prototype.

·         Role allocation

o   Divide the building tasks across the members of the team

o   Each member of the team will be responsible and accountable for a specific part of the build.

·         Teams must have 4 defined roles and each person in the team should be able to relay what their role is and what they are responsible for.

In world

Begin to build the castle you have designed.  Use as many of the construction materials available to you as possible while keeping a consistent look to your design.

View all the structures.