1. What was your favorite book as a child?

2. Digital Storybooks with iMovie & KidPix A 21st century project that engages students in reading, reading comprehension, writing for an authentic audience, summarizing, sequencing, sketching, retelling, fluency, reading with expression and video production!

3. Digital Storybooks with iMovie & KidPix Step 1: Students choose their favorite children’s story after brainstorming stories as a class. OR Have your students write their own story!

4. Step 2: Allow students to check out their book at the school library. OR Begin the writing process if students are the authors. Digital Storybooks with iMovie & KidPix

5. Step 3: Encourage students to read and reread their book or story. Give students post-it notes to mark important pages, events, and images in the story. Discuss and review summarizing with your students.summarizing

6. Digital Storybooks with iMovie & KidPix Step 4: Once students are familiar with their story, teach them how to storyboard!storyboard

7. Digital Storybooks with iMovie & KidPix Storyboard Essentials Name Scene number boxes Illustration boxes for sketching Area to write script/ narration

8. Give a student a storyboard and they will storyboard! Give them a pencil and they will draw! Set storyboard parameters. How much time you want them to spend summarizing, how much time you want them to spend drawing and how much time you intend to spend in iMovie? Print your story boards accordingly! Digital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPix

11. Step 5: When storyboards are approved by the teacher, students can begin drawing their illustrations in Kid Pix. If your school does not have KidPix try any of these FREE resources: Tux PaintTux Paint (Open source-download required) Sumo Paint (Online drawing! No download required)t (Online Art Rage 2.5 (Starter addition-download required)er addition-

12. Digital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPix Step 6: Show your students how to export their drawings out of the drawing program as.jpg files to the desktop (or a folder), name the picture file to match the scene number and drop them into iPhoto after EACH drawing is complete.

13. Step 7: When students have completed their drawings and all files are exported to iPhoto, create new iMovie HD project and have students record their script or narration on the audio track using the red record button under the media>audio tab. Tell them to record each scene as a separate audio track! Digital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPix

14. Before students begin recording audio, encourage them to: practice their scripts, speak slowly and clearly into the microphone and use expression!

15. Digital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPix Step 8: Pulling it all together!

16. Digital Storybooks with iMovie & KidPix Digital Storybooks with iMovie & KidPix In iMovie HD, the audio clip length will determine how long the picture length will be. Double click on the audio clip to determine it’s duration and set the photo settings window duration to match the audio track duration. Hit Apply and the picture will fit perfectly over the audio track.

17. Digital Storybooks with iMovie & KidPix iMovie ’09 requires you to pull in photos prior to recording narration. Have students pull their pictures into the timeline and set the picture length for 20+ seconds each. Select the picture clip and use the microphone button to record a voiceover. Crop the clips to fit the audio.

18. Digital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPix Final Touches... Sound FX Titles Intro. and Exit music Transitions

19. Digital Storybooks with iMovie & KidPix The Result

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22. Make your own storyboard! Digital Storybooks withiMovie & KidPix

23. StoryboardName scene