Stop motion animation. Discuss your group’s creation and how you envision using stop motion videos in the classroom.
I love stop-motion, it has been something that I have been interested in for a long time. I remember back when I was in around grade five, my friends and I would come home after school and make stop-motion Lego videos in my room. We would post these videos and be so proud of our creations. Unfortunately, our videos never made it big, and I never became the YouTube star I dreamt of becoming. I hold stop-motion videos near and dear to my heart, they helped mould my relationship with technology as a youth, and I’m delighted that it is something that is becoming a resource used in classrooms. One of the reasons I love stop motion is how easy it is to you, but how complex you can make it. In the classroom, stop-motion is a super easy platform to pick up, we did it with Grade 3’s, and they did a fantastic job of navigating the platform and figuring out how to create the animation. It is simple, but with practice and skills, you can make stop-motion a super cool animation style. Just recently, the most recent Spiderman movie featured a scene that was made by a fourteen-year-old in stop motion. As you can see in this video, you can literally make movie-quality animations with this platform, and I think this can be utilized super well in classrooms.
Stop-motion ideas for the classroom.
I think there are a lot of really good ways to incorporate stop-motion into the class. I think students who are not comfortable in drama or acting settings, they could create some stop motion videos with voiceovers to help replicate what was done in class. I think for English, it could also be a super powerful tool. I think stop motion could be best utilized to create scenes from a book, to real life. This can really allow students to take creative liberties on how they view the book, and bring what they read on the pages, to the classroom. I hope to learn more on what I can do to make stop-motion a common tool in my classroom, as I hope to give my future students the same positive experience I had.
