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Recording an interview is alway a good idea. It allows you to review the interview at a later date, and as often as you’d like focus on listening in the moment instead of taking notes you can take notes on the recording later allows you to review the feelings, inflection, and tone in the voice…
5th graders, As we talked about today, your Adobe Creative Cloud project on Immigration does not start with Adobe, it starts with gathering resources. What we did in class: In your Social Studies folder, we made a new folder called Immigration your interview questions, resources, and script will live eventually in this folder In the Immigration folder…
The 2022 Heathcote Art and Poetry Festival is almost here! Students have been working on their art and poetry and now they are preparing to share it for the festival. As has been the last two years, the 2022 Art and Poetry Festival is a virtual one. Every class has it’s own Padlet for sharing…
Before you go any further make sure you have tried your best to find images within Drive, WeVideo, etc. Apps like Docs, Slides, and Drawing have an “Insert -> Images -> Search the web” option that will give you high quality, free to use images. Always start there. WeVideo has a built-in library of thousands…
As of 2/28/2022 there is a new way to log in to IXL. You can still find the link and instructions on the HeathcoteGateway, but this blog post includes them as well. Go to https://www.ixl.com/signin/sufsd Click the “Sign in with Single Sign-On” button we are no longer using the username and password field After…
Apple devices take photos in Apple’s own file format, HEIC. Some programs recognize HEIC files, some don’t. Sometimes a program only wants a JPG (or JPEG) photo. Google Drive can store and preview an HEIC image. It recognizes it as an image and will show it to you, but it won’t let you use it…
The 2021 Heathcote Poetry Festival is almost here. Students have been working on their poetry and now they are beginning to add art to it. Every class has a Padlet poetry wall. In grades K-1 students may be uploading pictures of poems they write, or they may be creating using Wixie. 2nd graders maybe might…
So often technology can be funky. Things work fine one day, and not so fine the next. And often there is no concrete explanation as to why things go wonky. This is especially true of Chromebooks, but is easily solvable. It is because of an impending update. Google will send out an update to the…
3rd Graders, Once you finish your Google Slides file about your Persuasive Writing, you can record yourself narrating it. To do that we will create a screencast. A screencast is simply recording the screen. There are 2 main ways to do this Quicktime (on a Mac) Screencastify (on a Chromebook, Mac, or PC using…
When creating a movie, video, PSA, or any visual project using a non-linear editor like WeVideo you need to keep a few standard rules in mind: Start with 2 seconds of black End with 2 seconds of black Images should be between 4-6 seconds, no longer Titles – you need to be able to…