The 5th graders have been working on defining 45 geography terms for Mrs. McFall. In small groups, they wrote a definition in their own words, found an image of their term, then created a video using green screen technology. The videos are showcased below on the embedded GLOGSTER poster. You will readily see our learning curve using the green screen. We began using the green screen in the computer lab where we experimented with our own lighting. We were using Photobooth on the Macbooks to record our videos. Toward the end of our recordings, our wonderful tech administrators, Mr. Floyd and Mr. Gras, set up a room for the green screen with proper lighting. (Proper lighting, we found, is essential to get the right effect). We discovered the best way to create videos using the green screen is to simply record in front of the screen with a flipvideo or other video camera. We pulled the video and image in to iMovie09. This method seemed to create a much cleaner image with no “bleeding” of the green screen. We did notice a mistake we made in creating the videos using the flip camera. In Photobooth, images are flipped or “mirrored”, so students wrote their technology term in mirror image so it would be displayed properly. We used the same method with the flip camera, not realizing the flip camera does not mirror the image. Some of the videos on the glogster poster will have the term displayed in mirror image for that reason. If you are interested in how the videos were created, the demostration is linked here.