iMovie and Speed: Using the iPod Touch to Teach Physical Science
A technology-assisted lesson created by Chris Bartles
Summary
The lesson outline for the lesson “Calculating Your Own Average Speed” is described below. It is designed to allow students to apply their knowledge about average speed to a real-life example in which they will use their own motion to calculate their own average speed. Each part of the lesson is provided on a new page of this website.
The entire file can be accessed here: Chris Bartles EDU 625 Final Project
The entire file can be accessed here: Chris Bartles EDU 625 Final Project
Introduction
Learning Objectives
Lesson Plan
Learning Activities
Assessment
User Notes
Resource List
- Apple iPad: The
iPad is a tablet computer produced by Apple.
The iPad tablet can perform a wide variety of tasks, completed using
mobile applications, or apps. In this
lesson, the iPad will be used in conjunction with an AppleTV to mirror the
display of the iPad through a projector.
The screen that will be mirrored will be a demonstration of the activity
that the students are going to be completing in the lesson. For more information, please visit: http://www.apple.com/ipad/
- AppleTV: The AppleTV has a wide variety of uses, but is used in this particular lesson because of the wireless AirPlay technology. This allows the AppleTV to display the screen of an iPad (second generation or later), Phone (iPhone 4S or iPhone 5) or iPod Touch (5th generation) that is connected to the same wireless network. This can be used to display any content on these devices, but is used to demonstrate the lesson to the students. For more information, please visit: http://www.apple.com/appletv/ - Kanex ATV pro: The AppleTV only has an HDMI video/audio output. Since most classroom projectors do not have HDMI support, the Kanex ATV pro functions as a converter device to convert the HDMI signal to a projector-compatible VGA video signal and speaker-compatible audio signal. This allows the AppleTV to be used in the classroom to wirelessly mirror the iPad or iPod Touch to demonstrate the lesson. For more information, please visit: http://www.kanexlive.com/atvpro - Apple iPod Touch:The iPod Touch is a portable device made by Apple that can perform a wide variety of tasks. These tasks are completed using different applications (apps) that can do anything from playing and purchasing music to managing a class a student is taking through Blackboard. Since there are thousands of apps available, there are many tasks the iPod Touch can complete, and many of these are educationally relevant (http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html). The iPod Touch is being used in this lesson to record and playback video through the iMovie app. For more information, please visit: http://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/ - iMovie iPhone/iPod Touch app: The iMovie app on the iPhone/iPod Touch is a video editing software developed by Apple. It is a mobile version of their iMovie software available on Mac computers. This software allows users to edit speed of video clips as well as edit frame-by-frame. This allows the students to slow down their motion so that they can accurately calculate their speed. For more information, please visit: http://www.apple.com/apps/imovie/ - iResponse iPhone/iPod Touch app: iResponse is an iOS app that turns an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch into a student response system. In conjunction with the iResponse Utility, iResponse allows the teacher to perform real-time assessment of the students, determining quickly if the students are mastering the topics or if they need additional assistance. For more information, please visit: http://iresponseapp.com/ or https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iresponse-classroom-responder/id341824089?mt=8 References
iMovie and Speed:References
Picture reference: Apple Inc. (Producer). (2012). Hero_gallery3. [Web Graphic]. Retrieved from http://images.apple.com/apps/imovie/images/hero_gallery3.jpg |
Media
Above is a screen shot of the iMovie software both on an iPad and on an iPhone/iPod Touch. For more information, please refer to the resources list!
This is an example of a metered background. The student will be walking past a poster with the length markings just like the picture above. This picture was created by Chris Bartles using Doceri Remote. For more information on Doceri, please visit http://www.doceri.com.
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Reflection
A reflection about this class and this project can be found here: Chris Bartles EDU 625 Final Project Reflection
