November 2015

November was a blur between the GaETC and the book fair. We coupled the book fair with the 6th Grade Thanksgiving lunch and then hosted a parent night in conjunction with the 6th Grade Choir Show. The result was one of the best book fairs ever. We began working on the development of our MakerSpace to take the place of the media center office. We ordered kits from LittleBits, an Ozobot, conductive ink and LED lights, and a Raspberry Pi GoGrove kit from Dexter Industries. For the moment, the plan is to create a "genius hour" to give students the opportunity to solve engineering challenges or to simply "make". The First Annual PGM Film Festival was carried out throughout November with all Film Festival submissions due on November 30. The following are the criteria for movie trailer submissions:  

--Must be no more than TWO MINUTES.

--Must include the title and author of the book and your name on the title slide at the beginning of the trailer.

--Must upload the video to your Google Drive and then share the video with Mrs. Morin OR email your video to heathermorin@lowndes.k12.ga.us if the app you’re using doesn’t allow you to download the video.  (See Mrs. Morin if you have any trouble submitting your video!)  

--Must be original material created by YOU! Be mindful of copyrighted music and images.  See Mrs. Morin if you need help with copyright.

You may create the video in any software program or app.  It can be live action, stop-motion, cartoon, LEGO, slideshow -- whatever!  Checkout Videolicious, Animoto, Windows MovieMaker, iMovie, Shadow Puppet (app), Tellagami (app), Blabberize, JellyCam, OSnap, WeVideo or any other app, software, or web-based video creation tools!  The only limit is your creativity!

On November 30, there were two submissions. I uploaded them to YouTube and then embedded them in a Google form for voting. The two videos are:

https://youtu.be/e29fL2mXDSQ -- Ben Hardy's Percy Jackson video

https://youtu.be/_V8XnCjb1rE -- Dariana Waters's Payback video