Week 8, Monday 18th March 2013

For this Monday we had to finish the entire story (which we did !) in order to do a feedback with the class. Every video was projected to the class and we had to comment the video, react, and proposed ideas or changes. 

Thanks to this feedback we can improve our video : We have to put two slides (the color palette and the ingredients) at the end of the video, check the pronunciation, shorten the slides, and add at the beginning of the video a slide to introduce the story and ourselves !

We still have work to do !

Our story !

We have finish to edit our story, at last ! :D 

Here it is !

What we have done!

-Finish the story : DONE ! :)

-Finish the drawings : QUITE DONE.... :/

-Editing the video : NOT DONE AT ALL ! :'(

We have almost finish our drawings but we met many problems : at the beginning we all had a different idea of the little girl but now we have find one. Then the second problem is that the little girl was made by two different person. And then, it is very long to edit the pictures !

Here are two examples of Mary, the little girl :

An here is George and Mary in the kitchen :

Now we have to finish editing the video !!!!!

Our final story, at last ! :D

Here is our story finally over ! It took us several hours and weeks to refine it but we managed to ! Tell us if any changes need to be made ;)

Page 1

Hello ! My name is Mary ! I have no family and I live in an orphanage.

Page 2

Today is Monday. I love cheese !

Page 3

Hello ! My name is George and I love cheese too !

Page 4

Today is Tuesday. We want to draw a mouse.

Page 5

What colours do we need to draw a mouse in a garden ?

Pink for the ears and tail, red for the flowers, green for the grass, blue for the sky, grey for the body of the mouse, black for the eyes and nose, and yellow for the sun !

Page 6

Today is Wednesday. I am sad because George is not here.

Page 7

Today is Thursday. We are playing in the garden.

Page 8

Today is Friday. A family is here to adopt me.

Page 9

But they think that George is dirty.

Page 10

The family does not want to adopt me and George.

Page 11

Today is Saturday. We want to cook a cheesecake !

Page 12

What do we need to make a cheesecake ?

Page 13

Biscuits, sugar, butter, flour, cream, and cheese !

Page 14

Today is Sunday. Mary is worried because another family is here.

Page 15

Great! They want to adopt me and George ! We are so happy ! 

Week 7 , Monday 11th March 2013

What a difficult Monday we had ! 

This Monday was a special one. A former English teacher went in our class in order to explain us the software GIMP which is a photo editing software. It was very interesting because with her explanations, I understood many things which were useful for our final video.

Then, half an hour before the end of class, we met a HUUUUUUUUGGE problem ! Our story was too long. We had to write approximately five or siw words per page, but we wrote "long" sentences, so we had to take a short cut to our story.

WE WERE SO LATE !


But finally, we did it ! We managed to finish the story but we have to finish the drawings and start editing the video, which is not that simple ! And for next week we have to finish all our work and we will project our video to the class.

Wish us good luck ! ;)

Week 6, Monday 4th March 2013

WEEK 6... A BAD WEEK :/

We made again and again lot of mistakes with the computer of our teacher ... For example: be connected with the login of our teacher ! Because of us, she couldn't connect on the internet !
Because of our silly things, we were obliged to separate us and to go seeing with other groups. 

During the first part of the course, we talked on audacity about our story. we agreed on alomost everything ! It was great.
Then (separated in different groups), we saw 2 websites which are going to help us to build the structure of our story (drawings, paints, photos ...). 

• In the first website, voicethread, we saw that we can  speak about a story and circle what we are talking about and many other things. I must admit, I have not yet seen the tutorial ... But I think it is very easy to use.
• Then, we saw another website, which is wordle. In this one we learnt how to play with words ! For example, if you write the word "dog" five times, the word will be written in big lettre !

Now that we have seen all these applications, we just have to work !

week 5 --> my feelings and difficulties

FEELINGS AND DIFFICULTIES.

Our Teacher gave us a sheet of paper which will help us to realize what are our difficulties and how to express our feelings. That is what I am going to do...

Being forced to speak English for 2 hours, I learnt some vocabulary like knit ! I realized that I'm doing lot of efforts to correct sentences make make correct sentences ! But it is a good way to progress in English.

I thought that create a story for children will be easy. But it is not what we think ! We have to think to make short sentence, with simple vocabulary ... Eventually it is not easy. The worst is to create a good story and to be agree with the others members. But for that, we have no problem !

Indeed, working in group it is easy for me. But we have to more divide the work because for now, we have done everything together.

Concerning technology, we have lot of difficulties ! Free screen to video doesn't work and now, Laura has a "bug" on her computer ! So we have no computer to work on. I want to thank our teacher who lent us her computer.