It is always exciting when I find an educational use for an
app that doesn't fall under the “education” category. SloPro is marketed toward coaches and
athletes, but when our fourth grade students were learning about their bones
and muscles, it was the perfect app for them!
Here’s how we went about what came to be known as the “Science
SloMo Project.”
1. Each student selected a motion such as jumping rope, eating an apple, throwing a basketball, etc.
2. Teachers used the in-app camera to video the students doing their motions. The app recorded the video in slow motion.
3. At the same time, the children began to write down the narrations that described what their bones and muscles were doing as they performed their motions.
4. The teachers emailed the videos to the students' iPads and they saved to their photo roll.
5. They watched their slow motion videos and revised their narrations.
6. The children imported the videos to iMovie, selected one slow-motion clip at a time, and muted the sound of the action clips so background noise would not be audible.
7. They then recorded the appropriate narrations for each clip and added scrolling captions.
8. After posting the completed videos to their blogs, the students were able to watch slow-motion videos of everyday activities while listening to their classmates explain the movements of each bone and muscle as the activity was being performed. They loved it!
1. Each student selected a motion such as jumping rope, eating an apple, throwing a basketball, etc.
2. Teachers used the in-app camera to video the students doing their motions. The app recorded the video in slow motion.
3. At the same time, the children began to write down the narrations that described what their bones and muscles were doing as they performed their motions.
4. The teachers emailed the videos to the students' iPads and they saved to their photo roll.
5. They watched their slow motion videos and revised their narrations.
6. The children imported the videos to iMovie, selected one slow-motion clip at a time, and muted the sound of the action clips so background noise would not be audible.
7. They then recorded the appropriate narrations for each clip and added scrolling captions.
8. After posting the completed videos to their blogs, the students were able to watch slow-motion videos of everyday activities while listening to their classmates explain the movements of each bone and muscle as the activity was being performed. They loved it!
Options: You
can have the students video each other, but that would require purchasing many
more copies of the app. For a more complex version of this project, you may want to use Coach's Eye and have the students
annotate the movie before importing it to iMovie. If I did the project again, I
might try using Explain Everything instead of iMovie, which would not have the
option of selecting frames, but would allow the students to annotate the videos as they
record. Too bad Explain Everything tends
to crash…
