Palmyra Students Create History Podcasts

LDNews.com Lebanon, PA Palmyra students create history podcasts Students created QR (Quick Response) codes so their documentaries could be accessed by mobile phones. A QR code is a matrix barcode that can be read by camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square By CHRIS SHOLLY Staff Writer pattern that are placed on a white background. This stores a URL address on the World Wide Web. To Updated: 03/18/2011 04:13:11 PM EDT PALMYRA - Students in the Emerging Technologies class at Palmyra Area High School have created two-m inute documentaries accessible by mobile phones. view the podcast, a person would take a photo of the code using his mobile phone, which would then access the matching podcast. Sophomore Marybeth Rudy said students were assigned to create a brief history of places in Lebanon County and the Hershey area. Sophomore Makayla Hunt said the students uploaded their videos to YouTube, then added tags to publish their videos. They then created the QR codes. "All of resources were on community websites," she said. "We had to find all the information we were "If you have a cell phone with a QR app, you can take a picture of it, and it'll bring you straight to our videos," Hunt explained. going to need, all the pictures, videos and sounds. After that, we got a Windows Moviemaker and created our movie." Teacher Melanie Wiscount, who taught the class, said she presented the documentaries to the organizations they were about. Before they filmed their movies, however, students had to create a storyboard. They then wrote a script, recorded it and pulled that together with their pictures. "This was really exciting for them," she said. "I think what they were so appreciative of and so impressed about is that the students chose their business or attraction to do this." "One of the more important aspects we had to worry about was copyright and fair use," Tim Proses explained. "We had to worry about whether we could use certain pictures, how we could cite those pictures and all of the things we had to do to make sure that we weren't physically stealing the information. We had to use images that were in the public domain." Rudy said she learned a lot as a result of the project. "A lot of the stuff I did not know you couldn't use, so it was really nice to know how we could use it," she said. Hunt said she also enjoyed doing the project. The 18 history podcasts include such topics as Hersheypark, Bindnagle Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Londonderry Township, Stonewall Farmstead, Mt. Gretna's Lake Conewago, Gravel Hill United Methodist Church and the Union Canal. "I was just so excited that I could make a professional-looking project, and it's something that I could probably take to college and other LDNews.com Lebanon, PA Palmyra students create history podcasts Students created QR (Quick Response) codes so their documentaries could be accessed by mobile phones. A QR code is a matrix barcode that can be read by camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square By CHRIS SHOLLY Staff Writer pattern that are placed on a white background. This stores a URL address on the World Wide Web. To Updated: 03/18/2011 04:13:11 PM EDT PALMYRA - Students in the Emerging Technologies class at Palmyra Area High School have created two-m inute documentaries accessible by mobile phones. view the podcast, a person would take a photo of the code using his mobile phone, which would then access the matching podcast. Sophomore Marybeth Rudy said students were assigned to create a brief history of places in Lebanon County and the Hershey area. Sophomore Makayla Hunt said the students uploaded their videos to YouTube, then added tags to publish their videos. They then created the QR codes. "All of resources were on community websites," she said. "We had to find all the information we were "If you have a cell phone with a QR app, you can take a picture of it, and it'll bring you straight to our videos," Hunt explained. going to need, all the pictures, videos and sounds. After that, we got a Windows Moviemaker and created our movie." Teacher Melanie Wiscount, who taught the class, said she presented the documentaries to the organizations they were about. Before they filmed their movies, however, students had to create a storyboard. They then wrote a script, recorded it and pulled that together with their pictures. "This was really exciting for them," she said. "I think what they were so appreciative of and so impressed about is that the students chose their business or attraction to do this." "One of the more important aspects we had to worry about was copyright and fair use," Tim Proses explained. "We had to worry about whether we could use certain pictures, how we could cite those pictures and all of the things we had to do to make sure that we weren't physically stealing the information. We had to use images that were in the public domain." Rudy said she learned a lot as a result of the project. "A lot of the stuff I did not know you couldn't use, so it was really nice to know how we could use it," she said. Hunt said she also enjoyed doing the project. The 18 history podcasts include such topics as Hersheypark, Bindnagle Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Londonderry Township, Stonewall Farmstead, Mt. Gretna's Lake Conewago, Gravel Hill United Methodist Church and the Union Canal. "I was just so excited that I could make a professional-looking project, and it's something that I could probably take to college and other LDNews.com Lebanon, PA Palmyra students create history podcasts Students created QR (Quick Response) codes so their documentaries could be accessed by mobile phones. A QR code is a matrix barcode that can be read by camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square By CHRIS SHOLLY Staff Writer pattern that are placed on a white background. This stores a URL address on the World Wide Web. To Updated: 03/18/2011 04:13:11 PM EDT PALMYRA - Students in the Emerging Technologies class at Palmyra Area High School have created two-m inute documentaries accessible by mobile phones. view the podcast, a person would take a photo of the code using his mobile phone, which would then access the matching podcast. Sophomore Marybeth Rudy said students were assigned to create a brief history of places in Lebanon County and the Hershey area. Sophomore Makayla Hunt said the students uploaded their videos to YouTube, then added tags to publish their videos. They then created the QR codes. "All of resources were on community websites," she said. "We had to find all the information we were "If you have a cell phone with a QR app, you can take a picture of it, and it'll bring you straight to our videos," Hunt explained. going to need, all the pictures, videos and sounds. After that, we got a Windows Moviemaker and created our movie." Teacher Melanie Wiscount, who taught the class, said she presented the documentaries to the organizations they were about. Before they filmed their movies, however, students had to create a storyboard. They then wrote a script, recorded it and pulled that together with their pictures. "This was really exciting for them," she said. "I think what they were so appreciative of and so impressed about is that the students chose their business or attraction to do this." "One of the more important aspects we had to worry about was copyright and fair use," Tim Proses explained. "We had to worry about whether we could use certain pictures, how we could cite those pictures and all of the things we had to do to make sure that we weren't physically stealing the information. We had to use images that were in the public domain." Rudy said she learned a lot as a result of the project. "A lot of the stuff I did not know you couldn't use, so it was really nice to know how we could use it," she said. Hunt said she also enjoyed doing the project. The 18 history podcasts include such topics as Hersheypark, Bindnagle Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Londonderry Township, Stonewall Farmstead, Mt. Gretna's Lake Conewago, Gravel Hill United Methodist Church and the Union Canal. "I was just so excited that I could make a professional-looking project, and it's something that I could probably take to college and other LDNews.com Lebanon, PA Palmyra students create history podcasts Students created QR (Quick Response) codes so their documentaries could be accessed by mobile phones. A QR code is a matrix barcode that can be read by camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square By CHRIS SHOLLY Staff Writer pattern that are placed on a white background. This stores a URL address on the World Wide Web. To Updated: 03/18/2011 04:13:11 PM EDT PALMYRA - Students in the Emerging Technologies class at Palmyra Area High School have created two-m inute documentaries accessible by mobile phones. view the podcast, a person would take a photo of the code using his mobile phone, which would then access the matching podcast. Sophomore Marybeth Rudy said students were assigned to create a brief history of places in Lebanon County and the Hershey area. Sophomore Makayla Hunt said the students uploaded their videos to YouTube, then added tags to publish their videos. They then created the QR codes. "All of resources were on community websites," she said. "We had to find all the information we were "If you have a cell phone with a QR app, you can take a picture of it, and it'll bring you straight to our videos," Hunt explained. going to need, all the pictures, videos and sounds. After that, we got a Windows Moviemaker and created our movie." Teacher Melanie Wiscount, who taught the class, said she presented the documentaries to the organizations they were about. Before they filmed their movies, however, students had to create a storyboard. They then wrote a script, recorded it and pulled that together with their pictures. "This was really exciting for them," she said. "I think what they were so appreciative of and so impressed about is that the students chose their business or attraction to do this." "One of the more important aspects we had to worry about was copyright and fair use," Tim Proses explained. "We had to worry about whether we could use certain pictures, how we could cite those pictures and all of the things we had to do to make sure that we weren't physically stealing the information. We had to use images that were in the public domain." Rudy said she learned a lot as a result of the project. "A lot of the stuff I did not know you couldn't use, so it was really nice to know how we could use it," she said. Hunt said she also enjoyed doing the project. The 18 history podcasts include such topics as Hersheypark, Bindnagle Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Londonderry Township, Stonewall Farmstead, Mt. Gretna's Lake Conewago, Gravel Hill United Methodist Church and the Union Canal. "I was just so excited that I could make a professional-looking project, and it's something that I could probably take to college and other LDNews.com Lebanon, PA Palmyra students create history podcasts Students created QR (Quick Response) codes so their documentaries could be accessed by mobile phones. A QR code is a matrix barcode that can be read by camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square By CHRIS SHOLLY Staff Writer pattern that are placed on a white background. This stores a URL address on the World Wide Web. To Updated: 03/18/2011 04:13:11 PM EDT PALMYRA - Students in the Emerging Technologies class at Palmyra Area High School have created two-m inute documentaries accessible by mobile phones. view the podcast, a person would take a photo of the code using his mobile phone, which would then access the matching podcast. Sophomore Marybeth Rudy said students were assigned to create a brief history of places in Lebanon County and the Hershey area. Sophomore Makayla Hunt said the students uploaded their videos to YouTube, then added tags to publish their videos. They then created the QR codes. "All of resources were on community websites," she said. "We had to find all the information we were "If you have a cell phone with a QR app, you can take a picture of it, and it'll bring you straight to our videos," Hunt explained. going to need, all the pictures, videos and sounds. After that, we got a Windows Moviemaker and created our movie." Teacher Melanie Wiscount, who taught the class, said she presented the documentaries to the organizations they were about. Before they filmed their movies, however, students had to create a storyboard. They then wrote a script, recorded it and pulled that together with their pictures. "This was really exciting for them," she said. "I think what they were so appreciative of and so impressed about is that the students chose their business or attraction to do this." "One of the more important aspects we had to worry about was copyright and fair use," Tim Proses explained. "We had to worry about whether we could use certain pictures, how we could cite those pictures and all of the things we had to do to make sure that we weren't physically stealing the information. We had to use images that were in the public domain." Rudy said she learned a lot as a result of the project. "A lot of the stuff I did not know you couldn't use, so it was really nice to know how we could use it," she said. Hunt said she also enjoyed doing the project. The 18 history podcasts include such topics as Hersheypark, Bindnagle Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Londonderry Township, Stonewall Farmstead, Mt. Gretna's Lake Conewago, Gravel Hill United Methodist Church and the Union Canal. "I was just so excited that I could make a professional-looking project, and it's something that I could probably take to college and other