Year 1 Digital Stories

During term 3 the two year 1 classes created their own digital stories (videos) as part of their Unit of Inquiry titled

People express their ideas, feelings and culture through stories. 

To create the stories, the students (with help from staff) …

  • Hand wrote their story.
  • Drew the title page and a few illustrations on A4 paper.
  • Scanned the drawings and saved them as image files.
  • Recorded the student’s reading the story using the voice memo functions on the staff’s mobile phones.
  • Created a project in Windows Live Movie Maker.
  • Added a title page, pictures, narrations, music, special effects and credits to the project.
  • Saved the project as a video file ready for viewing by the rest of the class and parents.

Mrs Thelning’s class invited their parents & other family members in to school to view their digital stories.  It was wonderful to see the students showing their work to their families. Not only did they show their digital story that they had put so much effort into, but they also demonstrated their ability to log on, plug in headphones, find files, set the volume and so on. 

Here are some of the student’s digital stories (reduced in size for quicker viewing).

          Esther          Harrison          Jorja             Xavier

Year 3 Force Videos

As part of their unit of enquiry on force, Mrs Kruger’s and Mr Eckerman’s year 3 classes have been making short video clips.  The video clips demonstrate force in action in a variety of everyday activities.  The children chose activities such as

  1. Throwing, kicking and hitting balls.
  2. Swinging, spinning and sliding on playground equipment.
  3. Spinning and throwing hula hoops.
  4. Raising the flag on the flag pole.
  5. Indoor activities such as gluing, opening and closing the curtains and using a zipper.

The students were videoed performing these activities and they then edited their videos using Windows Live Movie Maker.  To see the steps that the students followed to make their video click here.

Here are some of the student’s force videos (reduced in size for quicker viewing).

Aden’s Force Movie                     Bianca’s Force Movie

Bradley’s Force Movie                Declan’s Force Movie

Emily’s Force Movie                    Kiefer’s Force Movie

Lauren’s Force Movie                 Mackenzie’s Force Movie

Molly’s Force Movie                    Sarah’s Force Movie