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Stop Motion Animation, it's for all ages!

I challenged myself this year in completing stop motion animation projects with all of my computer skills. I started with the 3rd grade so that I had an ideal expectation of what students could complete. Third grade had to do a short video with StikBots that had something to do with reading. 4th grade needed to animate their letters. 5th grade had to tell a story of some sort. Prep Work For myself I needed to develop a way to roll this out to students who may not be aware of what Stop Motion was. I created this presentation . The video was a little older, but had a good grasp on the basics. For the students, I broke it down into different days. I know from previous tries in photography that if I give them the tool right away they will forget about the process. The planning process is important. First they needed to come up with a story board and plan what was going to happen. Production The students picked up on the Stop Motion Animator Chrome App  very quickly. The most di...