FSI Popcorn Presentation

Amy, John and Cole: Title Card

Amy’s Popcorn Presentation: http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/11ih

John’s Popcorn Presentation:http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/11c7

Student Projects:

http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/zqp

http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/yx1

 

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Walkthrough the tutorial

Go to popcorn.webmaker.org
If you have Firefox, you should use it. Both made by Mozilla.

Click ‘Take a tutorial’

Press play to get started

1st pause:

• Open EVENTS tab
• Drag an event (say an image) to the canvas area (not the timeline)

 

2nd pause:

• Click on event in timeline
• Edit event options to the right
• change Single Image to Flickr
• Change ‘search for tag’ to Popcorn (or whatever you like)

Media:  This is important, when Popcorn was first created, it allowed only one media file to be the core of the project. Now many clips can be used in the same project.

Finish up

• Sign In to Save
• Create a Mozilla Persona account
  • So you can save your projects
• Change the name of the project
• Save the project

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Getting Started on your own

Visit the links to our presentations above and REMIX our projects!

Visit Amy’s site to see additional posts about Popcorn: go.illinois.edu/popcorn

Visit John’s site to see additional information about Media in the classroom: http://publish.illinois.edu/johntubbs/

 

Creating  your own