Green+Screen+for+2nd+Language+Learners

Attendee: Sherry Nesbitt

 * Equipment needed:**
 * laptop
 * digital camera
 * Flip video
 * Kodak video camera
 * tripod
 * green screen - sheet or box painted green chromakey
 * microphone
 * Glogster was publishing tool
 * Backlighting - lamps ~ to avoid halos or shadows


 * How Used:**
 * ESL & Spanish classes
 * Video postcard - send back to native countries; virtual field trip of school ~ weather in Poconos
 * Timing - 4 months


 * Filming:**
 * Start with blank green screen
 * Get person in frame & film
 * Had to convert Windows files to MAC (for imovie) using Element 3.0 BUT it bogged down her computer & was at a standstill for 3 weeks (2 weeks prior to her presentation)
 * imovie has Chromakey to fuse 2 images (under preferences, click advanced tools) - to enable greenscreening
 * import video .FLV
 * media-converter.org is the fix! AVI - MOV format
 * combined/ layered files to put speaker over image
 * edited in Moviemaker & published to Glogster
 * TIME is an issue


 * Ideas for classroom use:**
 * 1) Country report
 * 2) weather report
 * 3) clothing
 * 4) video flashcards & put on slides - students could be the flashcard image
 * 5) dialogs in front of pics of their scenes
 * 6) welcome to school
 * 7) description of Hershey - directions, stores, things to do
 * 8) As a short cut, why not put image on Promethean board & film that?