Episode 11: We All Scream for Green Screen

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Follow Up

• Google Slides Q & A
• Apple Pencil
• Pigment App

Top 5 EduBlogs (continued)

1. Tony Vincent: Learning in Hand
2. Wesley Fryer, Ph.D: Moving at the Speed of Creativity
3. Krissy Venosdale: Makerology
4. Discovery Education Blog
5. George Couros: The Principal of Change

Go to Teach.com for more blog inspiration!

The Green Screen!

Ideas of how to use it:

• Weather reports​
• Fractured fairy tales
• Virtual reports
• Mystery locations
• Book reviews
• Writing inspiration
• Digital storytelling
• Video newsletter for parents

Script:

• Important - Students want to film, but script is key to success.
• “Stories without digital work, digital without stories doesn’t. It is the special responsibility of teachers to ensure that students use technology to serve the story, and not the other way around.” - Jason Ohler (Digital Storytelling in the Classroom)
• Practicing (plenty!) before recording
• Teleprompter apps like Parrot, Teleprompter Pro Lite or Promptsmart Pro

Shoot

• Green screen
• Camera (ipad, phone, or other video camera)
• Lights? (optional)
• Mics? (optional)
• Apps

           Green Screen by DoInk (iPad)
           Veescope (iPad)
           TouchCast (iPad)
           iMovie (Mac only)
           WeVideo.com (premium accounts only)
           Camtasia (Mac or PC)
           Screenflow (Mac)
           Adobe Premiere/Adobe Premiere Elements (Mac or PC)

• Backgrounds                    
  

           Schools.iclipart.com for Iowa schools
           Pixabay.com for CC0 images AND video
           Try Makerbook.net for a collection of sources
           How to download photos and videos to the iPad

• Special effects:

           Extra cloths for masking
           Green screen on the floor instead of the wall
           Green boxes or boxes covered in cloth for floating effects
           Stop motion green screen (Tricia Fuglestad)
           Paper puppets on green sticks
           Green screen in tv & movies

• Share          
  

          YouTube, Vimeo, cloud accounts (Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc)
         

• Top Tips

          Use a tripod
          Don't wear green!
          Mirror iPads to show the final effect
          Props

Tech Nuggets

Mindy has a hard time explaining her tech nugget: FormBox. So check it out for yourself!

Jonathan has a basket of nuggets for design. He was inspired by the article,  'Apps That Will Make You A Better Designer Even If You Are Not One.' He likes the Design Hunt app (iOS and Web beta or a new tab in Chrome). He also shared the Adobe Post app that had a big iPhone update and will have iPad support! Check out the new Adobe Spark web version.

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