Back to School Selfie Adventure for Your Students! Part of the Effective Technology Integration tips category! In a few weeks, school starts again. This is the best time to begin connecting with students and getting them to connect with their peers. The second slideshow is an adaptable PowerPoint template that you may download and have your students use to upload their selfies. Enjoyed these ideas? Back to School Selfie Adventure Teacher Presentation Student template to download & edit with 20 second timings If you enjoyed these ideas, you may want to get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or my $5.99 ebook, Learning to Go, which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics.
wallpaper-2091728 Animal Selfies Next The crazy evolution of the selfie The original selfie – 1839 This picture of Robert Cornelius is considered by many to be the first photographic portrait. Cornelius took this photo in Philadelphia in the back of his family store, sometime during 1839. The 360- degree selfie – 1866 French photographer Gaspard-Félix Tournachon apparently found it hard to decide which side was his best side, so he photographed all of them. The mirror selfie – 1898 Because tripods were clunky and trying to jump into the shot would cause the photos the be blurry, Belgian painter Henri Evenpoel decided to use a mirror instead. The strike-a-pose selfie – 1900 French writer and artist Émile Zola decided jumping into the frame didn’t quite capture his essence, so he struck a pose and had someone take the photo for him. The brooding teenager selfie – 1913 This photo was snapped by Russian princess Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova. The arm’s length selfie – 1920 The self-timer selfie – 1934 The perfect family selfie – 1954 The space selfie – 1966
Video selfies | Videotelling Almost all of the stories in my ebook (coming one day soon!) have follow up activities in which students prepare stories of their own and perform them in front of video cameras – usually their own mobile phones. Videos like these are sometimes referred to as ‘talking head videos’. When setting up a task which requires the creation of a video selfie, it is important that students can see an example first. Example video selfie one: Describing an advert Task: students choose a TV advert that they like. You can see my ‘big fat hairy belly’ video here. Example video selfie two: Describing an image in a book Task: students choose an image from a book and describe it. Example video selfie three: Describing a funny animal video Task: students choose a funny animal video on YouTube. You can see Doris and the raspberries here. Some tips for students The most important things for students to remember when creating video selfies are: I will be showcasing students’ work in subsequent posts. Jamie :)