 On this ESU 8 Wednesday webinar, I, Katie Marrow, hope to share with you some ways to use the iMovie app, either for Mac or iPad, to connect with Marzano. In doing this, you're not just using digital video projects for technology's sake, but rather seeing better gains with your students, whether it's engaging them in the learning process or measuring or assessing what they know, or being able to connect with those students and your entire school team on a higher level. iMovie is just the tool to do it. It comes built in on the Mac and or the iPads, and so access is easy. And these are just some ideas to get started with projects that you could accomplish with this tool. The presentation that I'm sharing is in the form of an Adobe Spark page. So this web page is something you can revisit later on and explore at your own pace. I'm going to scroll through it now and share the highlights. So surpassing the glitz and glamour of the app and ensuring that we are impacting learning. One way to do that in my mind is to use Marzano's elements to frame or purpose your digital video projects. I've identified eight Marzano elements that I think can be directly impacted with iMovie. The ideas for iMovie use within that element and example products. And I just chose one for each of the eight elements that I selected. And it's just meant to be a starting point to help you think about the possibilities. But definitely the opportunities exist for you to do even so much more and take it in completely different directions than maybe I even originally thought. Feel free to share those ideas with me even beyond this Wednesday webinar. There's a link here to the Marzano research compendium so that our schools who do have access can log in and dig in even deeper to each of these identified Marzano elements. And the first one is element three, celebrating success. The indicator that we would know if we're practicing this would be to celebrate success and monitor the extent to which my actions affect students. iMovie is the perfect vehicle to help celebrate the successes in the classroom. Some things that you could do with iMovie to help celebrate success include creating a whole class iMovie project at the end of a unit. Maybe a lip dub or a class wrap or a news broadcast to recap an event or even a unit of study that you just completed and then celebrate that you have learned that. Definitely announcing class accomplishments with iMovie trailers or maybe a short iMovie that's then published to YouTube or some other publicly visible space so that you can share those celebrations with the outside world as well. And maybe you would create a class or department iMovie that's more in the form of a documentary or an infomercial to promote the positive things that happen within your classroom. Similar to this was our Language Arts Department board report one month at O'Neill High School. And we obviously won't watch the whole thing here, but I'll hit play so that you can get a little bit of a taste of what a celebratory iMovie might look like. We don't read and write books because it's... As you scrub through this, you can see that different English teachers talked about what they did in their curriculum and their expressions. There's even interviews with students celebrating their subjects and topics. On any kind of a scale, this would definitely be useful to celebrate the successes in your area. The next element that I feel can be accentuated through the use of iMovie is element five, formal assessments of individual students. The indicator here is that I use formal assessments of individual students to determine students' proficiency with specific content. And I monitor the extent to which students respond to assessment with guided feedback and instruction. So iMovie is a great tool or vehicle to get that more complete picture of a student and where they're at with their learning. Some ideas for using iMovie include asking students to show what they know through an iMovie project, maybe completing the end of the unit project that shows what they've learned or what they can teach to another student after learning that content. You can also do a jigsaw where students divide up vocabulary terms perhaps and teach each one in the form of their iMovie, but therefore at the same time you're able to assess their learning. When you use iMovie projects for assessment, it's a good idea to provide a list of required elements and or a rubric for what should be included so that you can know and the students can know themselves if they've demonstrated mastery or not. Here's an example of a science video showing what they've learned about the nervous system. How do you remember the way to your friend's house or blink without knowing or feel pain? You can do all these things because of the nervous system. Hi, my name is Mr. Emmy. My name is Sydney. Today I'll be teaching Sydney about the nervous system. Yay! You get the idea there and the content that was covered by the students shows if they've really mastered at a higher level, not simply just a regurgitation of key facts or multiple-choice questions. Marsano Element 8, Recording and Representing Knowledge is another great focal area for using iMovie in the classroom. When doing this, students can record and represent content and as the teacher we can monitor the extent to which our actions affect students' performance. Using iMovie to record and represent knowledge could take the form of asking students to show what they've learned in an instructional video to other students, much like the last example. It could also be the opportunity for students to take notes via iMovie. They could simply add text and images and video clips to represent what they're learning as they're learning it. iMovie can be just as easy of a note-taking device as any word-processing app. Let's watch an example of students showing their recording and representing content through this iMovie project on Molecules of Life by Mara Selendi. We as humans eat food every day, but what is the purpose of that food? We eat food in the building blocks of that food when we're together to make living things. This person's body was made from the building blocks that came from food like this hotdog. These organic macromolecules are the chemicals of life. Compounds compose a more than one type of element, containing carbon that are typically found in living things. There are four groups of organic macromolecules. They are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. A carbohydrate is called a nucleic compound because it is made up of a long chain of carbon atoms. That iMovie in particular isn't necessarily very extremely creative. It's just that showing content that's key and important for the students' learning. And I think that that's a great example model to show because, again, if a student is representing what they've learned in the form of an iMovie, that higher level of mastery. The next Marzano element that I want to connect to iMovie is previewing where students can preview and link new knowledge to what has been addressed and as the teacher we can monitor to the extent to which students are making linkages. This might be a great example of you as the teacher creating an iMovie before you teach that next unit or topic. In addition, asking your students to create an iMovie preview for next year's content would be a great way to both review and preview at the same time with iMovie. An iMovie trailer would be a perfect vehicle to do that. Highlighting key concepts ahead of time without too much emphasis on the complete story. Just giving a quick snapshot and overview of what is to come. Here's an example of an iMovie preview on a social studies topic. Again, you can watch all of these videos in fuller detail on your own time but you can get a sense here of how simple it would be to preamble of the Constitution, piece it together an iMovie and then use that to preview the next unit for your students. Get them engaged, connect them and help them link to content with a little bit more of a concrete picture of what is to come. By the same token, reviewing content is just as important. Here you engage students in a brief review of content that highlights critical information and you monitor to the extent to which students can recall and describe previous content. So for students to show this element with iMovie, they could create a review video prior to the unit test. You could again jigsaw topics and ask students to create short iMovie videos and save them to a class YouTube channel or pin them on a Pinterest board so that everyone in the class can review each other's short iMovie videos and therefore get additional reviewing skills happening and additional reviewing practice occurring. Another reviewing activity with iMovie would be to ask students to reenact key scenes from a historical event or a novel and see if they're able to review the main storyline. Here's a great example from some eighth graders after reading the short story The Hitchhiker. Now you want to watch that one on farther, but what's really great about it is it's not the entire story. You can just see those main points or highlights of what the students had read and how they remembered what they had read and therefore are reviewing that key content. Using iMovie to reflect on learning is another great strategy that connects to both Marzano's elements and just good elements of good learning as well. Engaging students and reflecting on their own learning and the learning process and monitoring the extent to which students self-assess their understanding and their effort. So iMovie, the perfect tool to just open up a quick video clip and have students talk about and reflect on what they did throughout the process of learning, what worked for them, what didn't work for them, maybe things that they would have a chance to redo if they were offered that option to have a do-over, see where they maybe needed more support and what they would want to have happen the next time they're presented with a learning challenge. You could also use iMovie as a reflection option for students who, writing that written reflection is a challenge. They could just do it through the form of video with iMovie. Another example of using iMovie for video reflection is to have students narrate a behind-the-scenes explanation of how they learned key concepts or how they completed a science lab, for example, even with still pictures, but then using the students as a voiceover to narrate what went on and what they did in each stage. Again, reflecting on that learning develops that metacognition skill that we know will lead to higher learning outcomes for our students. Here's an example of a student reflection videos in iMovie from elementary PE from quite a while ago, but you can just get a sense of how powerful it is. I love the iPad. It's very simple. Hit maybe three buttons and then you're there. When I get home every day, the first thing I do is get the iPad and go do some exercise. Yeah, a lot. And I've been using a lot of the apps and stuff on there. I usually do it with other family members. You can see these aren't scripted. They aren't rehearsed. They're just natural and authentic. And it doesn't matter if they're talking about doing exercises with the iPad and PE or a math problem. Getting that authentic reflection of the learning, during the learning rather than just the end point in time is really powerful. Marzano Element 31 is providing opportunities for students to talk about themselves. And iMovie is a perfect tool to do that. We can provide opportunities for students to talk about themselves and monitor the extent to which our actions affect students' engagement. If we've ever taught middle school, we know that being able to talk about themselves is students' most engaging activity. And iMovie can allow them to create creative iMovies about their own passions, their own anything outside that connects to the classroom. They could also use iMovie to interview a family member or a friend about a class topic and add that personal connection in iMovie to document and share as well. Here's an example of one from a junior high student. I think that we can all see the power of allowing students to create their own or infuse their own personality into their movie projects. Whether the end result would be the writing skills or the storytelling skills or the connection of a personal topic to what they're learning about in their textbook, iMovie can be a great tool to do that. And kind of to piggyback on that is Element 32 of motivating and inspiring students. We can use activities designed to motivate and inspire students and monitor to the extent to which those actions affect students. And with iMovie, I think that incorporating digital media and not a creative expression and definitely student choice is by default motivating and inspiring to all learners whether they're reluctant or engaged, they're going to be even more engaged when they get the opportunity to do some of these kinds of things with iMovie. We give students an additional outlet and an opportunity to shine when maybe their traditional skills might be lacking. This is an example of a science project where the parts of the cell were in fact carrying out an extended metaphor. These students happen to be very interested in Minecraft at the time so their cell was compared to a Minecraft city. And you can see how easily their iMovie project evolved from that initial concept. In our city we use the cell membrane as the city limits because the cell membrane controls what goes into and out of the cell. In our city our cell wall compares to a toll booth because it's an extra layering that lets things in and out of the cell. So I know firsthand from experience when I would for example tell my students you can use Minecraft in your project that in essence engages them and definitely helps them connect. And then they have to make those connections to explain and show and demonstrate the learning. So iMovie is a great tool to do the motivating and inspiring of students as well. You may have a totally different impression or interpretation of these Mars auto elements but hopefully that gives you a few ideas and places to start. Remember it's not just using the tool itself that makes it better instruction. It's how you use the tool and these are some ways to frame it in the terms and language of Mars auto that we have seen successful results with. So if you want to find more video examples like these and even more ideas for using iMovie one place to go is O'Neill Public Schools Student Sharing Gallery on your YouTube channel but I have some additional helpful links as well. And you may wonder why didn't I start with these? How to use iMovie in the first place? But these are really not the key emphasis. Knowing how to use iMovie isn't the most important ingredient to the success of it. I think just being open and willing to learn there's always places to go to get answers to your questions whether you're asking your ESU 8 colleagues to come in and help you or show you how to get started with an app or whether you're just turning over that control to the students and letting them explore and discover on their own. Learning how to use the app shouldn't be the first obstacle to using it. And at proof and in point here are these great starter guides that exist for iMovie either on the Mac or the iPad whichever applies to your situation that are available from the Apple Teacher Program. You can download these free books and then read them on either your Mac or your iPad in the iBooks app and they'll walk you through step by step how to use iMovie so that I don't need to reinvent the wheel here. I just want to show you how to access these and maybe you don't need to read the whole book but maybe you just want to flip ahead to a certain chapter. Here it defines the parts of the screen. On this one it would allow you to click on each part of the screen and get a little bit more description and definition of how that iMovie environment looks and feels. Your content library, how to navigate the timeline across the bottom how to work and manipulate it as you're working in iMovie setting some adjustment settings for clips whether they're still photos or videos and then creating that iMovie. So some simple tasks for our linked here in the book to a certain page and you can add additional media. Usually in iMovie it's as easy as drag and drop anymore. You can definitely bring in this practice media and practice with it in the starter guide if you want to feel like you're getting more expert skills practiced. Here's how you get started with the new project import your media building your story adding a video clip to your timeline they actually give you some skills to practice if you want to use their clips and again have that kind of teacher student experience you can do so with the starter guide or you can just take a look at their videos and watch them do it on the pages of the book. You can see it demonstrated there through these video clips. Adding transitions in between clips adding a clip segment to a timeline trimming the clip either by pulling the end of it or using a split command adding photos with Ken Burns effect adjusting the speed of a clip so playing a clip in slow motion or speeding it up and then overlaying videos so putting another video track on top of a second video track to do picture in picture or split screen or this is how we also accomplish green screen videos in iMovie. So the bottom layer would be your background image or video and then the top layer would have the green background in it and you would change the mode from cut away here to green screen and it would erase the green and you would see through down to that bottom layer adding titles flash and freeze frame adjusting sound and sound effects and adding that voice over where students could narrate and add their voice to the images in their project adjusting volume adding background music and then even some fine tuning so you can definitely feel like more of an iMovie expert after using one of these starter guides even better why not allow your students these are free books in the iBook store allow them access so that they can look up answers to questions that they may have themselves and look into it a little bit further so that iMovie starter guide is for Mac there's also one for God so that and you can also match it with the correct version that you have if you have iOS 9 or 10 there's a starter guide for each so that the pages look exactly similar to what environment you're working in an iMovie so I definitely encourage you to not feel like you're not an expert in iMovie but to just try it out and use the resources that are available to learn it as you go there's also a link that I've provided here that is from Tony Vincent that's about using the iMovie trailers which is a unique project topic or project type in iMovie that's really suited well to educational content in my mind because here students don't start with that open-ended empty timeline and have to add all of their effects and clips themselves instead they start with a template where they just drop in clips into a pre-made trailer format with some music and some graphics and some transitions already there and all they have to provide is the content Tony Vincent has a great website here full of resources they have some sample trailer projects iMovie trailer projects that you can see from different classrooms to use as examples even for your students to take a look at he shows the different trailer templates that are available on iOS and Mac and he's also created these editable PDFs so that if you do choose one of these trailer templates you'll know exactly how long each clip would need to be and how many clips and what types of clips and titles you'd be filling in in each of those so you could plan it first with a PDF and then build it in the actual iMovie app and this is a really good process for students to create digital video projects because they have to think ahead of what kind of content they're going to include and not get caught up then in the editing and the multimedia tools but allow them to focus on the content first definitely uses tips at the end and this is just a rich rich resource that I definitely encourage you to at least take a look at and see if it would fit your next iMovie project in your classroom and finally it's the power of digital videos definitely the power of sharing it and the audience that exists beyond your regular classroom walls as well so there's a simple step guide here that I've put out for creating a classroom YouTube channel and another thing I'd be happy to come out and help you get started with whether you're publishing student projects there or whether you're just creating playlists videos that already exist on YouTube in order to more easily share them with your students my YouTube channel is something that learners are used to using whether they're adult learners or young learners they're comfortable in that environment and so you can really use that to your advantage to help you organize and deliver content and then of course share those great iMovie projects that you guys create together so that's it that are my simple ideas for not just using iMovie in the classroom but connecting it to the Marzano instructional elements to hopefully lead to even better results for your learners and for yourself