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I thoroughly enjoyed Andy’s article on stop- motion animation and believe that where at all possible this is an excellent way to involve ICT. I personally am going through a careful assessment of the use of Flash as being too computer based. I worry for our health that we have to get our bodies involved with this computer technology. at the moment we are overboard on sitting at a chair moving a small mouse arround or tapping quckly (or some of us slowly!) at our keyboards – this cannot be desirable and hopefully some genius will find a way of enabling us to get these servants of ours(computers) to operate in a similar way to the way we talk – while doing the washing up/ playing football walking in the park – but then that’s like mobile phones and I’m not sure about them . . . .
To return to stop- motion Andy will I hope stimulate others to have a go especially young students in their homes – would it be an idea to invite parents into these lessons so that they get the idea and can help their children set up something similar at home.
I have had a practice of inviting parents into my lessons at Hainault High and it always went exstremely well just a few at a time – I haven’t heard of many teachers doing this . Have you?
Incidently I’ve done stop motion in conjunction with Flash – my comment is that it takes a lot of work to set up in the classroom. A lot more than your average ICT lesson – but thoroughly worth it!
Geoff
I have used a commercial programme called Stop Motion Pro with my ‘Animation Club’ for the last two years. The children have been most enthusiastic. A free trial download is also available and some of the children have also done animation projects at home.
Just a note to let you know how much I am enjoying reading SGP. I was told about the site at a recent ICT co-ords update run by our LEA and will be pushing it at school after half-term. Great articles & ideas with links to quality resources etc. Keep up the good work!
I am enjoying the incredibly fine work you are sharing in this publication. I am sharing what I can with colleagues.
I am researching web 2.0 (social learning)tools and their applications to K12 learning and teaching. My blog is my private reflection tool. I have a wiki too and I will include a reference to your fine work.
What perfect timing! The article by Bob Fox about creating a digital story came just as my Y6 class are embarking on photographing their models of the Pied Piper etc. We were going to use Windows Movie Maker to animate, adding words and music but as this is their first experience of such work, Story book is much more suitable and so easy to use. I can’t thank you enough for this and the other useful ideas so freely shared in Ictopus.
Many thanks Bob for sharing the Digital Storytelling with Photo Story 3 in SGP. Having been asked to review this program and found that it has so many useful features it was good to read how Bob had used it.
I am currently using it with a group of Year 2 infants who are making Photo Stories about where we live. These will be shared with their link school in Queensland, Australia. The children found it easy to use and our partner school was very enthusiastic about it.
Thanks again for this and all the other articles – they are invaluable.
Fabulous ideas and great for keeping us up to dat with what’s happening in mainstream too. Thanks for all you hard work and what must be many hours of surfing. I am always amazed at what I find – but it is so helpful to have the ideas condensed.
We’ll get some people together to talk about how we use Clicker 5 in our school in the new year….
Thanks and have a great Christmas – from all the Staff at Woodlands Special School, Plymouth.
Thank you for a brilliant site, and the many articles people are sharing with us.
Photosory is great, our year 4/5 children are using photostory for a literacy/drama activity at the moment, but have also used it to write instructions, their tutorial is now on the school website.
I used Geoff Dellow’s Christmas flash activity for the whole of Key stage 2 this week and it was brilliant, the results are also on the school site http://www.martindalejmi.herts.sch.uk/ourwork/jupiter/Jupitermessages.htm The children loved it!
Geoff’s tutorials are great and he was so supportive.
Keep up the good work.
Angela
Photostory 3
My year 2 children have learnt the different skills required by Photostory 3 including the useful tips from Bob Fox. Iam currently using it to enhance the Literacy work on Traditional stories. Ihave downloaded copyright free “Red Riding Hood” pictures from the British Council’s website for the children to use. I have editted them in paint so that the children have a working space to add their writing.
Hope this is useful
Judy
HI,
Just a quick comment on PhotoStory 3. I’ve been using this for about 18 months now. One successful scheme we run with this programme focuses on Literacy.
We provide pupils with a brief synopsis of 4 famous stories ( Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, Titanic). The pupils then have to select the 5 key stages in the story.
They produce freeze frames of these moments and take digital pictures. They upload these into PhotoStory 3. They use titles which can only be 2 words as headlines and then provide an accompanying narrative via microphone.
What I think is really great is using the motion as a narrative eye. For example in a picture of Juliet and Romeo, you could focus on a close up of Romeo first looking upset before panning back to reveal the cause of his grief. Alternatively, you could show the bigger picture of Juliet dead at Romeo’s feet before revealing his grief. It’s a very powerful tool and reflects how writer’s control our response to plot developments.
I have now closed and deleted the recent discussion about secure social networking sites. However, this is clearly an issue of concern and I would be happy to consider a follow up artcile in SGP. Please use the ‘contact’ button on the ictopus website to get in touch if you would like to write for the magazine about this or to share any of your own good practice in the use of ICT in primary education.