Lesson Plan 1 Part 2

                 Have you ever watched a movie like this one?

Chances are, this format for storytelling is not one foreign to you. There are many parts to this way of presenting a story that makes it engaging for children, and sets it apart from traditional book readings. This is not only a great way to present a story to students, but a great way for students to write their own stories to present to the class. There are plenty of applications that can provide necessary software to create a movie like this one, but the most convenient and official looking format is through the use of iMovie, which is included in most Apple computers. 
        For my lesson plan, I'm going to have my students (classmates) create one of these movies using pictures from vintage children's books found on the blog by Burgin Streetman called "Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves" that can be found here. Each one of my students will receive a folder through Google docs including five caption -less pictures of the story, and one picture with the book's cover. They will be given approximately 10 minutes to type up captions to their pictures, creating a short summary of the children's book based on what they can see from the pictures and what they can assume from the title. The photos will need to be saved into the iPhoto application which can be achieved through a simple "drag n drop" technique. They will then go into the iMovie application on their dashboards, place the provided pictures in any order they choose, the story I'm using in iMovie as an example is "Miss Esta Maude's Secret" By W.T. Cummings":

          Students will then click the microphone button on the dashboard running horizontally through the middle of their screen, move the red perpenducular line over the frame where they want to start their narration, click, and then record what they want to say for the specified frame. 

         Chances are, what is recorded will go over the 4 second window automatically given to each frame, which will mean that students will need to adjust frame time according to the length of their recording. 

            They do this by selecting "Clip Adjustments" and expanding time to however long they need sound to go for the clip. They can also decide on how the picture is displayed, it can be moving, cropped, or a still shot of the picture. The can do this by clicking "Cropping, Ken Burns & Rotation."