by Petra Willemse | Nov 20, 2018 | Everyone Can Create, Photo, PLP 8
As we continue working in the Everyone Can Create Photo Guide, the PLP students are building their understanding of the still image from everyday objects and moving into Chapter 2: Portraits. This chapter of the book we started by reviewing the skills together as a...
by Petra Willemse | Nov 16, 2018 | Everyone Can Create, Music, PLP 10
Oh GarageBand! As Apple Teachers, PLP teachers are familiar with GarageBand. However, as anyone who has worked in GarageBand will tell you, there is always more to be learned! Even as we believe maxim in PLP about pretty much everything, GarageBand is an example of...
by Petra Willemse | Nov 13, 2018 | Everyone Can Create, PLP 9, Video
After the great success we had with our PLP 9’s and their silent ghost town movies, we wanted to build that momentum even further and take on the video creator’s ultimate challenge: a live event. For the purposes of this project, we encouraged students to pick an...
by Bryan Hughes | Nov 3, 2018 | Everyone Can Create, Photo, PLP 8
Our PLP 8 students have now been working with the iPad for two months. One of the big goals for PLP 8 in terms of skills is for our learners to gain a grounding in storytelling and the skill of using the still image. Those goals tie in very nicely to our work with...
by Bryan Hughes | Oct 30, 2018 | Everyone Can Create, PLP 11, Video
For the past couple of years, we have taken PLP 11 down to Hanford, Washington to the Manhattan Project National Historical Park as part of our Manhattan Project2. The driving question for the project was: how did the development of the atomic bomb affect the lives of...
by Bryan Hughes | Oct 9, 2018 | Everyone Can Create, PLP 10, Video
We have always been known to do exceptional video projects in PLP. However, the final products have taken many revisions and a lot of critique from teachers and peers to get to those stages. Years ago, we realized one of the keys to good films from our students were...
