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First graders love sharing! They want to tell all about their important projects and share all their good ideas. They have so many stories to tell, and they love a good audience. Making movies using the iPad mini, and headsets is a great way for my first grade students to share their stories, involve their families, and inspire other first graders. Every day my students have work time, when they are free to choose their activity and unleash their imaginations and creativity to do whatever they choose. Some children build sophisticated towers or test physics theories by building ramps for marbles. Others perfect the flight of an airplane by making minute changes to the paper wings. A student might hold a class on how to create 3D paper animals, while another group invents a new language for a pair of stuffed frogs. Fabulous things are happening simultaneously during work time, and a movie app on the iPad can harness all this creativity-- allowing my students to share their experience with each other and their families. Even better, recalling the experience gives the students an authentic platform for language as they review what they did and add on to their ideas. Easy-to-use and intuitive technology allows my young students to become the movie makers, bringing their imagination and creativity to life for their classmates and their families.

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First graders love sharing! They want to tell all about their important projects and share all their good ideas. They have so many stories to tell, and they love a good audience. Making movies using the iPad mini, and headsets is a great way for my first grade students to share their stories, involve their families, and inspire other first graders. Every day my students have work time, when they are free to choose their activity and unleash their imaginations and creativity to do whatever they choose. Some children build sophisticated towers or test physics theories by building ramps for marbles. Others perfect the flight of an airplane by making minute changes to the paper wings. A student might hold a class on how to create 3D paper animals, while another group invents a new language for a pair of stuffed frogs. Fabulous things are happening simultaneously during work time, and a movie app on the iPad can harness all this creativity-- allowing my students to share their experience with each other and their families. Even better, recalling the experience gives the students an authentic platform for language as they review what they did and add on to their ideas. Easy-to-use and intuitive technology allows my young students to become the movie makers, bringing their imagination and creativity to life for their classmates and their families.

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