A co-worker and good friend of mine, Pam Cranford, is a Keynote master.  She not only uses Keynote for presentations, but she uses it as a virtual scrapbooking tool as well.  Most of the teacher blogs have her handiwork incorporated somewhere, and you can bet Keynote was used at some level.  She is the one that taught me how to animate objects on slides as well as include transitions between slides to create a beautiful visual effect.  When our principal, Danieli Parker, suggested we start creating video announcements for teachers to access each morning, Pam created an intro and exit feature that you can view here.  This year, I took her instruction and example to create a new intro and exit that fit with our theme for the year: White Oak Intermediate Rocks.  You can view it here.  I introduced students to the concept by having them create Countdown to Christmas clips to use during the month of December for Morning Announcements.  Here is an example of one student’s creation (at 2 minutes 47 seconds in), but when a student takes a concept and incorporates their own ideas and creativity, magic happens.  That is what happened with this instruction. A fifth grade student of mine, Ryan B., spent his free time in the computer lab to create this amazing video entirely in Keynote.  It took him weeks and weeks of fine tuning, but he truly created a masterpiece.