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 difficult part of this was teaching the students how to INSTALL the app. We used the newer versions of the Lenovo Chromebook which have the fantastic feature of rotating the webcam. I would strongly urge anyone trying this to make sure that their Chromebook does this. One day I had a sub and made this quick video with WeVideo on how to use it.
Saving for Later
Like any real movie, these are rarely finished in one sitting. To save these I created a shared folder (labeled by day/class) for students to transfer the days work into. This took a little prep work with the 3rd graders who haven't done much with shared folders/files and Downloads in Google Drive but was a breeze with the 4th and 5th graders.
Publishing
First students had to share their final product. I had them do this in Google Classroom, again, it was a bit trickier for the 3rd graders but the 4th and 5th had little to no issues.
For this I took the files created by Stop Motion Animator and merged the classes together, added music, etc. in WeVideo. It was such a breeze! I was able to grab them directly from my Classroom folder in Google Drive. From there I was able to publish it Unlisted in both WeVideo and on my YouTube channel. Here is the playlist of the 3rd grade projects.
For Next Time
I will definitely be continuing this project in the future. I think doing this project with multiple grades at the same time made managing what each group was going much more pleasant. To add to this I will be creating an "I can..." checklist for students to complete. With my classes not being graded in the elementary it is often hard for me to communicate with parents and teachers with what we are doing in the classroom other than by sharing articles and photos on social media.
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 difficult part of this was teaching the students how to INSTALL the app. We used the newer versions of the Lenovo Chromebook which have the fantastic feature of rotating the webcam. I would strongly urge anyone trying this to make sure that their Chromebook does this. One day I had a sub and made this quick video with WeVideo on how to use it.
Saving for Later
Like any real movie, these are rarely finished in one sitting. To save these I created a shared folder (labeled by day/class) for students to transfer the days work into. This took a little prep work with the 3rd graders who haven't done much with shared folders/files and Downloads in Google Drive but was a breeze with the 4th and 5th graders.
Publishing
First students had to share their final product. I had them do this in Google Classroom, again, it was a bit trickier for the 3rd graders but the 4th and 5th had little to no issues.
For this I took the files created by Stop Motion Animator and merged the classes together, added music, etc. in WeVideo. It was such a breeze! I was able to grab them directly from my Classroom folder in Google Drive. From there I was able to publish it Unlisted in both WeVideo and on my YouTube channel. Here is the playlist of the 3rd grade projects.
For Next Time
I will definitely be continuing this project in the future. I think doing this project with multiple grades at the same time made managing what each group was going much more pleasant. To add to this I will be creating an "I can..." checklist for students to complete. With my classes not being graded in the elementary it is often hard for me to communicate with parents and teachers with what we are doing in the classroom other than by sharing articles and photos on social media.
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