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Photos and Videos

3.2 - Creating

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Over the past few years, as iPads have become common in most classrooms, the potential of taking photos and videos as an aid to learning and as a means of helping children to express their creativity and to show their understanding, has become evident. 

In Reception, we want our pupils to become confident in taking photos and to start experimenting with recording video and sound.

Framework

3.2 - Creating

  • Select appropriate software from a limited range to create multimedia components; create and explore the use of text, image, sound, animation and video.

Skill by Skill

  • Use photographic devices in role play and begin to take photographs.
  • Use video devices in role play.
  • Record their voice with support from an adult.

(EAS ICT Skills Framework)

Vocabulary

picture     camera     record     photo

Focus Tasks

Photos, Videos and Voice Recordings

Cameras

Taking photos and videos is an important skill to develop in Reception, and pupils love it! Arrange regular tasks where pupils are required to take photographs or videos of objects or of each other. For example:

  • Place Dinosaur toys all around the class and see who can take photos of most dinosaurs in 5 mins.
  • Give pupils an iPad and ask them to take a photograph of every pupil in the class with certain characteristics (e.g. every boy, every blonde hair pupil, every pupil who is 5 years old). This links in well with the activities in 4.2 'Data and Information Literacy'.
  • Ask them to film a video of each other giving directions to find a hidden treasure (links with 4.1 'Problem Solving and Modelling'.

Voice Recording

  • With adult support, pupils can record their voice using one of many iPad apps. One example is for the teacher to start a Book Creator, with photos of pupils doing tasks on each page. Using the same app, record the pupils explaining what they were doing in the pictures in which they feature.
Book Creator - How To

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Book Creator Voice Record

Enhanced Provision

The Camera Never Stops

Camera

There should always be devices capable of taking photographs available for pupils to use in the classroom. Create many 'Take photos / videos of...' hunts for them to regularly attempt. Whilst iPads are clearly useful for this purpose, try to find some old cameras for roleplay as well.

Voice Recording

There are plenty of resources available for pupils to use to record their voice and to listen to other people's recordings. White boards, large pegs or clips or stuffed animals can all be bought with voice recording capabilities.

  • Pupils could record their names on a voice recording peg when they visit an area in the classroom. These can be clipped to a string in the area. You can then listen to the recordings as a class to see who visited that area each day.
  • If your small whiteboards have sound recording capabilities, your pupils can draw animals on them, record the names of those animals and the sounds that they make.
  • Pupils write their name on the whiteboards with sound recording capabilities, and record a fact about themselves (e.g. "I have a sister", "I want to be a builder like my Dad").