Digital storytelling project - add narration to a story

This is part of Challenge #3: Become a STORY NARRATOR WHIZZ. We turned our stories into videos with narration today using a Chrome extension called Screencastify. First we installed the Chrome extension, Screencastify, and then we practised narrating our stories. The extension saves them in our Google Drive. Here is mine: 

my digital story - the Kidnapper Bus

This story is part of Challenge #2: Become a STORY WHIZZ KID. We used stories from the African Storybook website (https://www.africanstorybook.org/) that are free to reuse and change completely, and we recreated them. We kept the art. We did these in Google Slides. Here is mine: 

Badges for our Term 3 Digital Portfolios

From Mrs Beal

In Term 3 we are continuing with our challenges and badges program. There are six challenges and six badges available. Here are the challenges.
Challenge #1: Become a GOOGLE SITES CREATOR
Challenge #2: Become an STORY WHIZZ KID
Challenge #3: Become a STORY NARRATOR WHIZZ
Challenge #4: Become a BADGE SHARER
Challenge #5: Become A CODING GENIUS
Challenge #6 Become an GOOGLE EARTH WONDER
The link to my personal badges document is on the side of the blog under 'My Term 3 Badges 2018'. Click on the image to see how I am doing. I want to get all six badges. 

Review of Term 2 Challenges and Badges

Let's review the seven Challenges we did last Term, in Term 2. How many Challenges did YOU do? Did you get all seven badges? Remember, if you missed one you can make it up.  Here are the seven Challenges summarised.

Challenge #1: Become a BLOG VISITOR
Since we are participating in the Student Global Challenge we will visit other blogs and see what they are look. Look through the list of participating students and choose someone your age from another country and open their blog.  Write something encouraging on their blog. Record their blog address.

Challenge #2: Become an AVATAR COMPOSER
In order to be digitally safe create an avatars of yourself using cartoonify.de.  Add this to the side bar of your blog and replace the previous avatar.

Challenge #3: Become a SOCIAL SCIENTIST
For this challenge you will work in a whole class collaborative group and research some of the challenges facing the world.  Each person will take one of the challenges presented in two sites and answer three questions about it.  You will work on a collaborative Google Slide presentation.
a) What is the problem?
b) What can be done about it?
c) What are some interesting facts.

Challenge #4: Become a RESEARCH CHAMPION
In this challenge you will work in collaborative groups of 3 and create a single Google slide together that shows your written summary of research about an endangered animal.  Make sure you use a video icon to link a short video about your endangered animal.

Challenge #6 Become an ANIMOTO GENIUS
Animoto is a video creator. You will learn how to use it and add music and images creatively.

Challenge #7: Become a STORYBIRD WHIZZFor this challenge you will write a story in Storybird.  Once it is finished and has been edited you can add it to your blog with one picture at the top – the cover page. The story must have
a) a beginning, a middle and an end
b) a hook at the beginning to get people interested
c) a problem to solve

 So now, let's get ready for Term 3!

Story: Gladiator Kitten

We like to use Storybird for writing because of the wonderful art. This is my Storybird story called 'Gladiator Kitten'. Unfortunately it can't be embedded as an e-book in my blog. I am adding my cover page and my words as evidence that I finished the story.

This is Hoot, the Gladiator kitten . He is SCARED of the old cranky back-stabbing English man Unlike Leo ( another Gladiator kitten ) Hoot was forced to become a viking by the chief . This chief was a terrible chief,. If you said no, you didn't want to go to war, to go to the war he would grow bamboo through you . If Hoot had said no he would have had a slow and painful death.

The bad thing about this chief is that he had killed the king in a challenge and he is now king! HE IS KING !!! This new king has a wife so she is Queen and wants revenge on her kingdom because she is evil. She did not like Gladiator kitten.

My Animoto video

We learned how to make videos using a free program called Animoto. We added web images and music to our movies.

 

Endangered Animals group project

We worked in collaborative groups of three. We did a collaborative mini-project on Endangered Animals. Each person in the group was assigned a different animal to research. We had to put the information into our own words and we also had to add a video icon and link a video to the icon.
Here is my group's project.

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Blogging challenge: My zoom out story

On the 10th April we played the Zoomout Game. This is a follow up post. The Zoomout Game is when you add an image to your blog, and start a story in the comment section. Other classmates add to your story in the comment section. Finally we had to create a story from what people said in the comments. These were the comments in my blog.

• Baby Rocky is a smart little kitten. 
• His eyes were so blue he could see in the dark. 
• He was getting ready to sneak out while his parents were sleeping.
• He was seeking revenge on the evil dogs from across the road that had tried to catch him last week. .
• He sees them through the window sleeping. 
• Now is the time to attack.However, one woke up suddenly and he had to think again. 

After two days of watching and thinking he eventually had a clever plan. He wondered if he had the courage to pull it off.



Here is my story

This is Rocky. He is naughty and he is gonna sneak out to visit the powder puff unicorns. He creeps through the window and leaves. Mom and Dad wake up. Rocky goes to the unicorn's house. But mom and dad come after him and take him away.

The next night he tries to sneak out to a party. He is in the road. The cars are everywhere. One car is mom's car. 'What is she doing up?' Rocky thought. He followed her. When her car stopped Rocky saw her go into a old factory. Rocky followed her. His mom was talking to dog. The dog passed his mom something and his mom gave him money for it. This is what his mom said to the dog: 'Thanks for the catnip and she licked him on the cheek. The dog started to bark at his mom.  Rocky stepped back to run but he tripped on a can. Clang, clang, blang went the can.
"What was that? said his mom. 

Rocky raced to his home to get his dad. When he found his dad he told him everything. His dad went to the kitchen and got a knife in case the dog got nasty, and he said 'Run' with a determined look in his eye. Rocky ran fast. They saved his mum from the evil dogs. 

Blogging challenge: Global issues

This week we learned about Global Problems. We opened two websites to do our research:
http://www.kidsgoglobal.net/the-issues
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AWEcGu1IfVTReSjrinmYPcU_C91Zyrqa-SRBsDjHjP4/edit#slide=id.p
We each chose a different problem and researched it. We added information in two headings:
a) What is the problem
b) What can be done about it.
Our collaborative slideshow follows.

Blogging Challenge: Visiting other blogs

Today we visited the blogs of other students around the globe. http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/march-2018-students/These are the blogs I commented on today. https://cssith.blogspot.co.za/ NZ

This is what I said:
Hello. I am Izzamum from Cape Town. I enjoyed looking at your blog because you have such interesting posts.  Please also visit my blog and leave a comment (https://izamun.blogspot.com/)

My new avatar

I made this avatar with an application called www.cartoonify.de\. i LOVE IT.

Blogging Challenge: Zoom out

Let’s play the “Zoom Out” game! It’s fun, easy, and collaborative! Just take a look at the picture below. What do you think is happening? How did that happen? What is the story behind this? I just need one commenter to get the story going, and the rest of us will continue to add ONE comment until his story is told. Just follow these simple guidelines to contribute to our mysterious story:

The first commenter starts the story in the comments below by writing one sentence (include subject in photo).

The next commenter copies the sentence, pastes it in their comment, and adds onto the story by writing the next thing they would see if the picture was “Zoomed Out.”

This process continues until the story ends.

I will update my blog with the full story at the end.

Badges for our Term 2 Digital Portfolios

Our blogs are our digital portfolios. This term my teacher is awarding digital badges for our work on our blogs. If we complete our work every week in the allotted time we will get a badge. There are seven badges available in Term 2. (We will also get our normal marks).

The link to my personal badges document is on the top right side of the blog under 'My Term 2 Badges 2018'.. These will be udpdated every week.  I want to get all seven badges. 

My animal jigsaw puzzlwe

Today we as in me made animal jigsaw puzzles on https://www.jigsawplanet.com/. Click on the image below to click on mine..

42 izamun animal puzzle

Blogging Challenge Week 3: Images, music and videos

We can’t just use any image we like just because it is on the Internet. We have to use images with the right licence. If it is a Creative Commons then we have to say who originally created it. There are also places to find free photos for my projects

 Open Clip Art https://openclipart.org/
 Pics4learning http://www.pics4learning.com/
 Compfight website http://compfight.com/
 The Commons on flickr https://www.flickr.com/commons
 Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 Getty Search gateway https://goo.gl/j6BCC8
 Use Explore in Google Docs

Here is a Creative Commons image explaining this: (add)

Places to find free music and sound effects for my project

• Jamendo, https://www.jamendo.com/search?language=en
• CCMixter, http://ccmixter.org/
• a post with 14 websites for music, https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/14-websites-to-find-free-creative-commons-music/
• a post with 20+ websites for music, https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/websites-download-creative-commons-music/
• a post with 55+ sites with sound effects https://goo.gl/4CoMva

blogging chalenge

We joined the Edublogs Student Challenge today. We looked at the posts found at: https://goo.gl/wXZBtr and https://goo.gl/zYlL7W . We also uploaded our 2018 badge. I have learned how to upload images. I have completed an introduction and I have made an avatar

meems

we made memes using google drawing this is mine

Avatars

We made avatars in class roday http://illustmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml

my holiday

I chillaxed went to the aquarium  then ate sushi then had cheesecake then went the big wheel got 70 rand worth of sweets after that me and my dad went home and on the way stopped of at lekker and I had a peppermint crisp ( as if i hadn't been spoilt enough)For christmas i got unicorns slippers,unicorn emoji,unicorn painting,a microscope,a big squashy lamb,emoji necklace,brocli,strawberry and many more