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THERE'S A RANG-TAN IN MY BEDROOM PROJECT - IDEA 1 - EXPLORING THE ADVERTHere is the first in a new series of videos based on a project I did with my class last year. It was all inspired by this advert from Greenpeace - https://youtu.be/3Ha6xUVqezQ.
In this video, we explore the advert, including some comprehension questions I've put together and also using Seesaw to generate some descriptive phrases. Click the picture to access the video if you have subscribed through Facebook. Click here if you need to subscribe on Facebook. |
THERE'S A RANG-TAN IN MY BEDROOM PROJECT - IDEA 2 - DECONSTRUCTING THE TEXTHere is the next video in our Rang-tan project. In this video, we look at deconstructing the language features and sentence structures of a text in Seesaw to help us understand the techniques and features we will need to include in our writing.
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THERE'S A RANG-TAN IN MY BEDROOM PROJECT - IDEA 3 - MODELLING WRITINGIn this next video linked to the Rang-Tan project, I share some of Alan Peat's brilliant sentence types that will help with out first writing project. Pupils will write a story as an Orang-utan seeing their home being destroyed.
This is an example of a modelled/shared writing session in the build up to children independently writing their own piece. Click the picture to access the video if you have subscribed through Facebook. Click here if you need to subscribe on Facebook. |
THERE'S A RANG-TAN IN MY BEDROOM PROJECT - IDEA 4 - PERFORMING OUR WRITING WITH GREENSCREENIn the next video in the series linked to the Rang-tan project, we look at using Greenscreen to perform our writing. To enhance the video further, I explore using GIFs as an animated background in our Greenscreen projects.
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THERE'S A RANG-TAN IN MY BEDROOM PROJECT - IDEA 5 - ADDING ANIMATED TEXT TO VIDEOSHere's the next video linked to the Rang-Tan project. In this video, we explore how to add animated text onto our Greenscreen videos. Using the app Videorama, we can add a different layer to our videos to enhance the finished projects further before sharing and publishing our work.
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THERE'S A RANG-TAN IN MY BEDROOM PROJECT - IDEA 6 - WRITING TO COMPANIES ABOUT PALM OILThe next video in this series linked to the Rang-Tan project looks at learners writing persuasive letters to all the companies linked to dirty palm oil. Dirty palm oil is palm oil from deforestation and many companies, mentioned on the Greenpeace website, all have links to Dirty Palm Oil. This video explores writing and performing their writing before sharing it with them.
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THERE'S A RANG-TAN IN MY BEDROOM PROJECT - IDEA 7 - RESEARCHING ORANG-UTANSIn the build up to creating a class ebook about Orang-utans, we need to research and share facts and information we find from researching online. To do this, we can use the online tool Mentimeter as a way to collect everyone's ideas and share it to seesaw for the whole class to access.
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THERE'S A RANG-TAN IN MY BEDROOM PROJECT - IDEA 8 - CREATING A CLASS EBOOKIn this final video linked to the Rang-tan project, we look at using all our research to create our own class eBook in Book Creator which we can then publish to the iBooks store for the world to download.
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Outcomes
Tweets and messages from sharing the video online.
Responses from companies after sharing the children's videos and letters.