How To's with iMovie

Today we began the final portion of our "How To" writing projects.  Students will be creating an iMovie using an iPad which both tells and shows how to create a simple car they regularly use in their Motion and Design science unit.

This morning we began with one of our students, on the spot and with no preparation  teaching her classmates (and MOSTLY her teachers) "HOW TO" use iMovie.  After she taught how to use the trailer portion of iMovie, as a class we decided that the project portion might work better.  On a side note, more times than not, this on the spot teaching by peers offers SO MANY additional benefits to the classroom.  Why don't we do this more!?  Check out our teacher in training below:

Then, with very little instruction, we sent our groups off to work, using our set of seven iPads.  In just 25 minutes students created quick plans of action and began working.  Even better, after LEAP they were begging to keep working.  This time of year, there is no point in slamming on the breaks when a school writing/technology project has momentum!  Check out what this looks like for most of our students (the Chromebooks were used to look at original written directions on a Google Doc):