Background
The Primary 4 and 5 pupils came together to share their learning from their respective topics (Romans and Wallace and Bruce). They decided to create their own battle on the school pitch and planned the battle, made weapons and shields, voted for leaders and wrote speeches for the leaders to say before the battle.
How ICT supported learning and teaching
We used the Flip cameras to film the entrances, speeches and main battle scenes of the battle and we able to zoom in and out of the action, picking up the expressions of the faces of the soldiers. After filming the two classroom teachers uploaded and edited the footage using Imovie 09 and added transitions, captions, music and credits creating a real film for the pupils to watch back and enjoy.
Impact / Conclusion
The pupils thoroughly enjoyed carrying out the tasks invovled in creating the battle and loved using the Flip cameras to pick up the footage of their friends. They found using the camera very easy and would often teach each other about the functions of the buttons and how to zoom etc. When watching back the completed movie the pupils loved seeing themselves and ther friends acting out and were impressed with the transitions and credits. I would have liked to include the pupils in the editing process but they have not had any experience with Imovie 09 yet. This is a project I would definiately recommend to others as the pupils were completely enthused about using the cameras and producing a professional film.
