Grade 6 (Lesson 3a/Q3/2015/2016) :Making an iPhoto Montage

Goals:
To learn how to selectively use digital media to enhance their way for representing understanding. Digital photography has been a standard tool for users for years. In the classroom, there are countless ways to use this technology. iPhoto represents Apple's highly integrated digital photography application that exploits the Mac OS platform to its fullest.

Assignment
In this assignment, you will construct a small multimedia object called a "montage" that demonstrates qualities of digital media in order to convey an educational message about a topic you choose. You must embed the montage in an web page and describe it within that page.

Main components of the montage video:

• Visual "track" which, using iPhoto, is an image sequence arranged and presented in an interesting and intentional way.
• Sound track of some kind that enhances or complements the experience of the visual track

Some ideas for the montage are:

• Philosophical "statement" about the people, places, and things that influence schools and/or learning
• Reflection on an educational issue or event
• Exploration of a particular topic that can be examined in a new way using digital media
• Tribute to an educator or other person who has influenced you and your development
• Documentary of a vacation or historical place

Here are two examples:

http://pcraig.iweb.bsu.edu/dream/democracy.html 

http://sartonproj.iweb.bsu.edu/movie1.html

Specific Requirements:

• At least 60 seconds of total playing time; no more than 3 minutes
• The visual track plays a minimum of 15 images, maximum of 30 images
• At least one sound track which relates to the visual track in some way (support this in your description and include the appropriate copyright information)
• Use RapidWeaver software to create an iPhoto  (We will do this in class, but come with the paragraph below written)
• The page must include:

- Description of the purpose of the montage in three or four sentences
- Acknowledgements of copyrights or artists (music, images, etc.) (FULL bibliography for items not of your own creation)
- The iPhoto montage itself - exported as a Quicktime movie (.mov file)
- A professional look relevant to the montage embedded within it.
- See specifics on "how to" below

Come to class with the montage finished and exported, the paragraph described above written, and the music bibliographic information collected. We will make the page for this assignment together in class on Wednesday.

How to Make and Share a Montage with iPhoto
The details of this process will be discussed in class, so pay attention and take notes regarding the details.

Gather the images in iPhoto. You may choose to take your own pictures or bring in images from the web. You MUST acknowledge your sources by listing them on the iPhoto artifact page that you make, so be sure to copy the URL into the information section of the photo in iPhoto.

Gather the music in iTunes. You may want to do this before or after the image gathering, it depends on how the "message" unfolds for you. You can import music tracks from your own CDs or you may purchase music online. DON'T STEAL MUSIC! Get free music here. 

You'll need to acknowledge ALL music appropriately by including the following information on the iPhoto artifact page:

• Song title
• Album (if relevant)
• Artist (who is performing the piece)
• Composer (who wrote the piece--lyrics and music--if known)
• Publisher of the audio recording (typically, the music label)
• Year of recording

Create a slide show in iPhoto. Title the slideshow something relevant. Arrange the images in a meaningful way.

Configure the slideshow and attach the music track. Move pictures around by dragging; make the photos' progress match the music as much as possible.Test how it plays and decide if you like it.

Export the project as a Quicktime (.mov) file to your desktop before class.