Rochambeau Middle School

Students will be: 

Searching, accessing, using and presenting information Digitally.

• Podcasting – researching, writing and recording a script that presents information
• Enhanced Podcasting – Adding images, video and music to enhance the narrative
• Digital Storytelling - create and edit video/images to tell a story that presents information

 Sharing the Love of Books and Reading by:

• Creating a Virtual Bookshelf  - an interactive digital bookshelf of what you have read and are currently reading
• Sharing your Bookshelf
• Creating Digital a Book Trailer

 Students will use:

• Audacity-Audio Editor/Recorder
• Movie Maker (Image and video editing)
• Adobe Premiere Elements (Image and video editing)
• Flip Video-Video Recording
• PowerPoint –Virtual/Digital presentations

Students will use Computers and Digital Media to create content and communicate information using various formats: text, graphics, audio, video and animation.

Lessons may include: 

• Creating Podcasts (Record your voice and edit to produce narration -   add and edit music soundtracks)
• Enhanced Podcasts (Combine narration and video/images and music) – Digital Storytelling
• Scratch - MIT “Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.”
• Alice – Carnegie Mellon “Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web.”
• Anime - Anime Studio Debut 2D animation software, includes everything aspiring artists and hobbyists need to create and share quality cartoons, movies, anime and cut out animations from start to finish.
• Google Earth  - Create and Record Virtual Tours, make your own place marks and enhance them with HTML (WYSIWYG) - Text, Embedded Images/Video and Links
• Create Tutorials and ‘How To’ Demos (Cam Studio and Jing)
• Digital Book Shelves using PowerPoint, track and share your favorite books and what you are currently reading.
• Other emerging 21^st Century Technology, Tools and Applications