Morris Lessmore

Recording the work created by pupils at Porchester Junior School when they were introduced to the world of Morris Lessmore

Resources

Presentation for use in the lesson outlines
(you will need to have the 'Papyrus' font installed to view successfully)

Keynote

 Download Morris Presentation (Keynote Version)

Powerpoint

Download Morris Presentation (Powerpoint Version)

Selection of images of the slides within the presentation;

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Creating an ImageMap (as used in this post)

Use this image (set to a width of 600pixels);  View this photo

Add this code to your post;

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function playSound(soundfile) {
document.getElementById("dummy").innerHTML=
"<embed src=\""+soundfile+"\" hidden=\"true\" autostart=\"true\" loop=\"false\" />";
}
</script>

<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" usemap="#bookmap" src="http://www.porchester.notts.sch.uk/.a/6a00d83513e5a153ef016763a9d793970b-800wi" alt="Planets" width="680" height="384" /> 
<map name="bookmap">

<area shape="rect" coords="25,333,50,378" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="168,316,200,336" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="168,316,200,336" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="238,335,260,350" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="339,308,367,334" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="437,317,455,343" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="500,335,521,355" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="578,255,600,281" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="553,197,571,214" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="500,139,515,157" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="434,218,453,237" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="347,255,359,268" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="326,212,338,224" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="256,95,267,108" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
<area shape="rect" coords="173,12,184,26" onmouseover="playSound('sound.mp3');">
</map>
</p>

You will need to alter the 'sound.mp3' link to the URL of your uploaded audio when you use this code.

Additional ICT related resources;

BigHugeLabs has a 'film poster' making tool. Used with the wallpapers from mossislessmore.com (shown below) this can be effective. 

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Audioboo (iPhone app / website) is a quick and easy way to record audio, upload it to the Internet, and embed it into blog posts. There is a limit of 5 minutes on the length of an audioboo recording.

Brushes (iPad app) can be used to 'trace and paint' over screenshots from the story, before removing the orginal screenshot to create fantastic artwork creations.

Colorsplash (iPad app) can be used to create small areas of colours in a black and white picture, and recreate scenes from the story as  Morris discovers his loss of words, and becomes greyed out.

Comic Life (iPad app / Mac / Windows) can be used to create graphic novels to tell the story, expand on parts of the story, or create new stories around Morris. (Here are two templates for an 8 page graphic novel; one without text prompts Download Morrislessmore and one with text prompts Download Morrislessmore2) Note: these were created  on a Mac, but will load on the Windows version of Comic Life.

iMovie (iPad app / Mac) can be used to retell the story of Morris, using still images from the app within the iPad app and adding an audio track as the story is told. With the Mac version greenscreening is possible quickly and easily.

If you want to see / show your pupils how the story was created, there are many images on the morrislessmore.com website. There are also many videos showing development of the app on Vimeo.

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The clipart image of Morris Lessmore was created by Joe Bluhm
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