Lunar Eclipse

Were you sleeping during this week's lunar eclipse? You should have been! Here's a time-lapse video of the eclipse. When the photographer put these pictures in sequence, he added some music to his show to make it even more interesting.

Be sure to watch how the shadow of the sun slowly covers the face of the moon. And why do you suppose the moon appears so red at total eclipse stage?





Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse from William Castleman on Vimeo.


The next total eclipse of the moon will be in June 2011! But you won't be able to see it from anywhere in North America. Too bad!

Fourth Grade Slide Shows

Fourth graders have been busy reviewing and choosing pictures taken at last month's NH River Day. Students uploaded photographs to the education section of Animoto, then chose appropriate music from freeplaymusic.com to accompany the visuals. These slide shows will be embedded in students' blogs and a copy will be stored in each student's digital portfolio here at school. Here's an example of one student's fabulous slideshow!

Slideshow!

Using photographs taken at Riverday, fourth graders each compiled and narrated a short movie using iMovie. Then they used the same pictures to make an online slide show on Animoto, a free slideshow program on the internet. They chose music from freeplaymusic.com to accompany their brief show. After they downloaded and saved a copy of their work to their digital portfolios here at school, they embedded the slide show into their blogs. Here's an example of one student's work: