Students utilised the concept of stop motion to make a drawmation. This was used as the opening tool for their reflection. Click on the link to view drawmation animation.
Month: November 2011
Lego Conversations
Use what students love and know in the classroom. LEGO! Create entertaining dialogues using ONE photo and the Ken Burns lens. A simple animation your children can direct.
Drawing on children’s interest makes learning in the classroom highly engaging. Using LEGO men or women students can create an animation that is easy and simple. This movie is made with just one photo, and a simple effect named Ken Burns Lens (iMovie).
In literacy, a story plan can be devised, identifying the setting, character and conversation by the children. The children use their story plan and create a dialogue between their characters. The dialogue could be about a conversation a family is having, it could be an argument between siblings or it could be about a robbery. It is open ended and can be accessed by all learners. See below for the Modern Family plan (right click to save).
Once the setting has been identified by the children, simply encourage them to find a background using flickr.com or google images. Once the background has been chosen, make sure the picture is in full screen mode. Place your LEGO characters in front of the computer screen and get the children to take a photo. The idea is to only take the background and LEGO characters and not the screen. Upload the photo into iMovie and use the Ken Burns Lens feature to direct the start and end point of motion. The children record their dialogue over the pictures. The picture timing will need to be adjusted accordingly to match the dialogue.
Robot Dotted Thirds Worksheet
Try this dotted thirds creation. It is sure to improve the look of your publishing paper and your classroom displays.
Software
Pages/MS Word, Preview
You will need
Dotted Thirds
How To
1. Open Safair (Internet Browser)
2. Navigate to www.google.com.au
3. Click on IMAGES and search for a picture that relates to your topic. For example, ‘Robot Outline’.
4. Select an image and COPY and PASTE the image into Pages.
5. Open the ‘Dotted Thirds’ document and COPY a section of the lines.
6. PASTE the dotted thirds into the Pages document and adjust accordingly.