Five Quarts of Jelly in a Two Quart Jar

I'm doing workshops for third and fourth grade teachers on using iMovie in the classroom. It's part of a three day summer Loti Math Institute. I have a forty minute workshop each day in which I have to give them Flip cameras and teach them the basics of the Flip, iPhoto, and iMovie, and how to best integrate it, with the outcome of a math lesson that incorporates video.

Realistically, I have at the best, an hour and a half to accomplish everything. The good news is that the teachers have been previously trained in the Loti method and know that everything starts with curriculum.

I just finished day one and it looks like we are on track. We talked about how to use video as part of an overall plan to develop a skill set. Broke out the Flips, took a few videos and I showed them how we will bring them into iPhoto. That put us where I hoped we would be at the end of the first day.

Tomorrow we are going to try to make some simple video that can be used to engage the students and begin discussion. Their homework assignment is to go home and shoot some footage that they can use as a way of showing a connection between math and every day life.

They are a good group and I have high expectations. Not only do I expect that they will have simple lessons ready to go by the end of day three, I'm hoping we have time to share a few of them. Wish me luck.