St Mary’s Catholic School in Tauranga trialled a system of online reporting using screen recording and casting. They wanted a system that supported student self-assessment and increased parents’ understanding and involvement in formative assessment.
Tags: Assessment | English | Multimedia – graphics/animation | Multimedia – video | Primary | Upper primary |
Students at Sunnybrae Normal School used Kid Pix and iMovie to record and share experiences, ideas, and information during an inquiry about kiwi conservation.
Tags: English | Science | Multimedia – graphics/animation | Multimedia – video | Lower primary | Primary |
Students at Sunnybrae Normal School in Auckland improved their literacy skills, and explored connections between oral, written, and visual language by creating digital texts.
Tags: English | Multimedia – graphics/animation | Multimedia – video | Presentation | Lower primary | Primary |
Students at Onehunga-Cuthbert Kindergarten in Auckland improved their storytelling by producing and sharing their stories with the help of animation software.
Tags: English | Multimedia – graphics/animation | Multimedia – video | Lower primary | Primary |
Students at Firth Primary School in Matamata developed fluency and confidence in te reo Māori using Photo Booth.
Tags: Learning languages | Multimedia – video | Middle primary | Primary | Upper primary |
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Students from Melville Intermediate prepared and learnt their individual mihi in te reo Māori, then created videos to share their learning using Movie Maker.
Tags: English | Learning languages | Multimedia – video | Primary | Upper primary |
Students at Somerville Intermediate School enhanced the presentation of their work about virtues using YouTube.
Tags: Social sciences | Multimedia – video | Primary | Upper primary |
Movie Maker is no longer available from Microsoft. For alternative video editing software see:
Students at Howick College increased their motivation to learn and their ownership of the learning process by using the multimedia tools Movie Maker and PowerPoint, and other mobile technologies.
Tags: Social sciences | BYOD | iPads | Multimedia – graphics/animation | Multimedia – video | Presentation | Secondary | Upper secondary |
Students at Weymouth Primary School in Auckland deepened their understanding of mathematical strategies through creating YouTube clips explaining their their problem solving processes.
Tags: Mathematics and statistics | Multimedia – video | Primary | Upper primary |
Students from Bayswater School created a video slideshow chronicling events in a school-wide inquiry using Animoto.
Tags: English | Multimedia – graphics/animation | Multimedia – video | Presentation | Middle primary | Primary | Upper primary |
Fendalton Open Air School teachers collected and analysed a range of data to enhance their writing programme and engage learners.
Tags: English | Teacher inquiry | Collaborative tools | Communication | Multimedia – video | Presentation | Primary |
Polyfest provided Māngere College with the opportunity to re-think curriculum planning and design to improve student achievement results for NCEA.
Tags: English | Learning languages | Science | Social sciences | The Arts | Visual arts | Multimedia – graphics/animation | Multimedia – video | Secondary | Upper secondary |
Can students improve their writing using digital/visual formats instead of written text? This was the focus of Renee Strawbridge's teacher inquiry.
Using documentary making as a context for learning, her class of year 6-8 students successfully developed their writing skills. Students were highly engaged, developed new understandings of presenting through film making, and built digital fluency.
Tags: English | Teacher inquiry | Technology | Writing | Multimedia – video | Primary |