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A simple video production technique can animate a wide range of student projects-and instill new energy in distance learning.

Courtesy of Justine Marie Bruyère

Teaching has always been as much about what we do as how we do it. It's about asking the right questions, using the right tools, and igniting students' curiosity to engage with content-even when we're not in the same physical space. Although much has changed in education over these last few months, students' curiosity and wonder have not. So it may be necessary, now more than ever, to embrace technology as a way of tapping into student interest.

My 15 years as an educator have taught me that a multimodal approach to learning-that is, working with different forms of media and with a number of senses-is one of the best ways to differentiate, build knowledge, and inspire creativity. Additionally, a multimodal approach has been shown to sharpen memory and improve attention to difficult tasks.

Forms of technology that do more than just replace pencil-and-paper tasks are a great way to incorporate multimodal learning. In my own classroom, green screens-a video production technique in which two or more video or image streams are layered together-have helped me embed opportunities for students to create and reflect on learning.

In remote learning, teachers no longer have hallways to display the work of students. Without a real audience for work, assignments can feel insignificant and students can feel unmotivated. Green screens offer opportunities for expressive, process-oriented work that can be shared as a class and with families.

Getting Started

There are a few things you'll need to work with green screens, starting with a green backdrop of some sort. You can use a large roll of green paper or a green bedsheet, paint a section of wall green, or purchase a green screen. For individual small projects, I've even used a green towel, a T-shirt, or sheets of green 8.5 x 11 paper.

A device to record the video and/or images. A tablet or smartphone will do.

A green screen application. I have tried dozens and recommend these two apps: Chromavid and Green Screen by Do Ink.

You'll also need:

To get started, download or capture a landscape photo (from life, books, the internet, or a hand-drawn image). Next, select a photo to use as the base layer. Then record your video.

Techniques for Using Green Screens

Green screen with downloaded still image background: I began using a green screen by playing with simple backgrounds. Students wrote stories or poems, selected backgrounds, and then presented their work in front of the screen. This small step worked magic for engagement.

Green screen with self-created still image background: Math journaling was always something that my students endured rather than enjoyed-until we used the green screen. At a green screen journal station, my students were able to respond to fictional characters from their math textbook.

To create these custom backgrounds, I use Microsoft Word or Google Docs and build fictional characters or real people into the images. Next, I take a screenshot in landscape mode. Last, I tap the plus sign and use the original image as my base layer.

Green screen with a moving background: As time went on, our comfort grew with this technology, and we started to utilize video, rather than still images, as a background. Students enjoyed the opportunities to respond to and interact with the videos.

For example, in one video students "became" National Geographic reporters in different locations throughout North America. Once they had completed certain research steps pertaining to their geographic location, groups selected a video to use as their promotional video backdrop and wrote a script.

Green screen with a student-created background: During Writer's Workshop, students wanted to promote their original stories with book trailers to feature their characters and other important story details. To do this, they drew the setting of their book on an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper and took a photo of this drawing. The photo became the base layer. Next, they individually drew and cut out the characters of their stories. The story characters were mounted on green strips of cardboard (which were folded for added strength).

Every time our class used this educational tool, I was impressed with students' work. The process motivated students to do their best: Students often rerecorded their videos multiple times, working to fluently read or emphasize certain words.

If you've ever seen students lose track of time when devoting themselves to a task or express delight at the sight of their own finished work, you know why green screens are a staple in my classroom. It wasn't just one assignment that made the work so memorable. It was the result of an engaging process merging with important work-and the promise of a real audience-that has made using a green screen such a success.

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Find inspiration as you build out your school's makerspace. Fixed or mobile, create an engaging space to make and learn.

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Seven Tips for Designing the Ultimate Makerspace
In this article, Architect Magazine compiled a list of tips when constructing a new makerspace.

Designing a School Makerspace
What do you need to think about when creating a makerspace? The who, what, where, when, why, and how of makerspaces is covered in this Edutopia article.

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Blender is a public project hosted on blender.org, licensed as GNU GPL, owned by its contributors.

For that reason Blender is Free and Open Source software, forever. Learn more

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Blender is a member of ASWF, Khronos, Linux Foundation and OIN. It's also well supported by major hardware vendors such as AMD, Apple, Intel, and NVIDIA.

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Voxatron is a fantasy console and collection of games made entirely out of voxels (little colourful cubes, kind of). The Alpha version comes with an arena shooter and action-adventure cartridges as well as powerful design tools to make your own voxelly games.

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Make your own carts or remix other carts with the included set of design tools. Create your own animations, characters, pickups, music and build worlds out of them!

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As well as official carts included with Voxatron, there is also a growing collection of user-made games that can be played via an in-game bbs cart explorer. Cartridges posted on the BBS are also shareable via an HTML5 player. [ Play! ]

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Become a registered user of Voxatron and receive free updates forever as well as two special cartridges when v1.0 is released: Voxatron Arena and Voxatron Story -- a meta-adventure that explains the origin of the console itself.

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Until the end of Voxatron alpha, all users also receive a copy (and all future updates) ofPICO-8, Voxatron's little 2D cousin!

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Welcome to PICO-8!

PICO-8 is a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. It feels like a regular console, but runs on Windows / Mac / Linux. When you turn it on, the machine greets you with a commandline, a suite of cartridge creation tools, and an online cartridge browser called SPLORE.

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The harsh limitations of PICO-8 are carefully chosen to be fun to work with, to encourage small but expressive designs, and to give cartridges made with PICO-8 their own particular look and feel.

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PICO-8 has tools for editing code, music, sound, sprites, maps built right into the console. Create a whole game or program in one sitting without needing to leave the cosy development environment!

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PICO-8 cartridges can be saved in a special .png format and sent directly to other users, shared with anyone via a web cart player, or exported to stand-alone HTML5, Windows, Mac and Linux apps.

Any cartridge can be opened again in PICO-8, letting you peek inside to modify or study the code, graphics and sound.

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PICO-8 comes with a built-in cartridge browser called SPLORE, for searching and favouriting carts from the online collection.

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PICO-8 is tiny to download, easy to install, and will run on almost anything! To use PICO-8, you'll need either Windows, a Mac, Linux (i386 / amd64), or a Raspbery Pi (pictured) with ~700MHz CPU. Turn your old unused netbooks or microcomputers into PICO-8s!

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Tackling inequity in STEM is an ambitious one, however we believe that by utilizing the rich potential of Makerspaces, and focusing on communal building, maker pedagogy, and embodied approaches to learning, we can together build an innovative and powerful tool to break though the barriers that have historically acted as road blocks against young people from marginalized groups choosing to enter STEM.

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A week with The GIMP project at Blender HQ, Amsterdam

I was really excited to have the opportunity to meet some of the GIMP developers in-person after many conversations with them over IRC in the past, and Wilberweek presented not only a great opportunity to do just that, but also to visit the Headquarters of another of my favourite FOSS projects, the unstoppable freedom-centric software juggernaut that is the Blender project.

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This is the official website of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).

GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.

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Where to Start

If you are just getting started with maker learning, begin by reviewing the "What is Maker Learning?" and "Establishing Your Vision" resources. If you are improving or expanding your existing maker learning program, dive in and use the Maker Learning Maturity Matrix to gauge where you are and to set new goals. The tools in the Framework may be accessed and used in any order to build capacity for maker learning throughout your school.

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Maker Learning Leadership Framework - Digital Promise

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If you are just getting started with maker learning, begin by reviewing the "What is Maker Learning?" and "Establishing Your Vision" resources. If you are improving or expanding your existing maker learning program, dive in and use the Maker Learning Maturity Matrix to gauge where you are and to set new goals.

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Audacity is the world’s most popular audio editing and recording app. Edit, mix, and enhance your audio tracks with the power of Audacity. Download now!

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Interact with AI research demos in real-time, be inspired by the AI Art Gallery, and learn more about AI extensions in Omniverse.

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Free US Shipping on all orders over $40 Educators across the country are pairing our 'What's Your Word?" question with an activity such as a writing assignment and then creating MyIntent bracelets for their students as a daily reminder to live their word.

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Welcome to the Maker resource library for educators. Find tools that work. Feel free to rate or leave a comment under tools that worked well for you!

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Discover recipes, home ideas, style inspiration and other ideas to try.

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Gather gives distributed teams a digital space that brings everyone together.

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Work remotely side-by-side in digital Spaces that make virtual interactions more human.

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Download the Libby App: ebooks & audiobooks FREE from your library

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Bring the library to you! Free digital books, magazines and more! Available for iOS and Android devices.

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"Mecabricks is the first web service to publish and display 3D models made with LEGO® bricks."

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Mecabricks is the first web service to publish and display 3D models made with LEGO® bricks. No need to install any plugin, it simply works.