Five-Sentence Slide Videos

Slide videos are one-shot videos with students talking, using iPod sounds (using the app Thumbjam), and pictures drawn by the students. The story was created, practiced, and videoed all in ONE forty-minute class period. Of course you can divide the project into two or three class periods. They were also created on Halloween, when the students need LOTS of structure and purpose.

The teacher using an iPad (or videocam) records the video on the floor, with the students talking, playing music, and moving the objects.

The video is edited and first names are placed at the end. 

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As a class, the students select two characters. The list is already on the whiteboard. 

• Demon
  
• Dragon
  
• Ghost
  
• Vampire
  
• Werewolf
  
• Witch
  
• Wizard
  
• Zombie
  

Five sentences - 

• Sentence one - Introduction of character one
  
• Sentence two - Introduction of character two
  
• Sentence three - Location and meeting of the characters
  
• Sentence four - Problem
  
• Sentence five - Conclusion
  

Five groups of students. each group has markers and an iPod (iPad)

• Group one - draws character one and creates sounds for sentence one
  
• Group two - draws character two and creates sound or sentence two
  
• Group three - draws background for the location and creates sounds for sentence three
  
• Group four - draws background or props and creates sounds o sentence four
• Group five - draws additional props and creates sounds for sentence five
  

Within the group, the students decide-

• Who draws the picture
  
• Who says the sentence
  
• Who plays the iPod (iPad)