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What was your favorite book as a child?
What was your favorite book as a child?
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Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
A 21st century project that engages students in
reading, reading comprehension, writing for an authentic audience,
summarizing, sequencing, sketching, retelling, fluency,
reading with expression and video production!
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Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Step 1:
Students choose their favorite children’s story after brainstorming
stories as a class.
OR
Have your students write their own story!
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Step 2:
Allow students to check out their book at the school library.
OR
Begin the writing process if students are the authors.
Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
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Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Step 3:
Encourage students to read and reread their book or story.
Give students post-it notes to mark important pages, events,
and images in the story.
Discuss and review summarizing with your students.
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Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Step 4:
Once students are familiar with their story,
teach them how to storyboard!
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Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Storyboard EssentialsNameScene number
boxes
Illustrationboxes for sketching
Area to write script/narration
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Give a student a storyboard and they will storyboard!Give them a pencil and they will draw!
Set storyboard parameters.
How much time you want them to spend summarizing, how much time you want them to spend drawing and
how much time you intend to spend in iMovie? Print your story boards accordingly!
Digital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPixDigital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPix
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Step 5:
When storyboards are approved by the teacher, students can begin drawing their illustrations in
Kid Pix.
If your school does not have KidPix try any of these FREE resources:
Tux Paint (Open source-download required)
Sumo Paint (Online drawing! No download required)
Art Rage 2.5 (Starter addition-download required)
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Digital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPixDigital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPix
Step 6:
Show your students how to export their drawings out of the drawing program as .jpg files to the desktop (or a folder), name the picture file to match the scene number and drop them into iPhoto after EACH drawing is
complete.
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Step 7:
When students have completed their drawings and all files are exported to iPhoto, create new iMovie HD project and have students record their script or narration on the audio track using the red record button under the media>audio tab.
Tell them to record each scene as a separate audio track!
Digital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPixDigital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPix
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Before students begin recording audio, encourage them to:
practice their scripts, speak slowly and clearly into the microphone
and use expression!
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Step 8:
Pulling it all together!
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Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPixIn iMovie HD, the audio clip length will determine how
longthe picture
length will be. Double click on the audio clip to determine it’s duration and set the
photo settings window duration to match the audio track duration.
Hit Apply and the picture will fit perfectly over the audio
track.
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Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPixiMovie ’09
requires you to pull in photos
prior to recording narration. Have students pull their pictures
into the timeline and set the
picture length for 20+ seconds each. Select the picture clip and use the microphone button
to record a voiceover.
Crop the clips to fit the audio.
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Digital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPixDigital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPix
Final Touches...
Sound FX
Titles
Intro. and Exit music
Transitions
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Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
Digital Storybooks with
iMovie & KidPix
The Result
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Make your own storyboard!
Digital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPixDigital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPix
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Storyboard Name
scene scenescene