Well I have been experimeting with stop animaton in the classroom.
Have researched the many aspects of teh doing of the stop animation, even made my own movie for my research class I am attending. Let us just say that there is a lot to consider about having a group of 24 students with varying degrees of need creating a stop aninmation film on a science theme regarding Animal Growth and Change...lol
I had provided 4 classes of instruction regarding what stop animation is, how it looks, its flip book beginnings, discussed and shared many online examples as well as shared a sample stop animation that a student had competed in GRade 4 several years ago that is stored in our school's drive.
Considering it was there first attempt at this things went okay, I was somewhat disappointed with the poor quality work that was done, ie it became a project in building with clay rather than telling a story.
First, frustration after the discussion and presentation had to do with the batteries, many of the batteries did not have enough charge to work.
Second issue was that a camera I borrowed from Board did not work for me, the images were fuzzy and stretched no matter what I did to fix it.
Third, Windows Movie Maker is not the same as the 2011 WMM Live having a few issues finding where things are between different versions
I have learned that it is best to use your own stuff, yet again, I used my own digital camera and it worked flawlessly, easy to take pictures and good quality as well as easy to retrieve the files. I say this because I wound up borrowing the 2 school digital cameras, retrieving the pictures became tricky with one as the folders were not organized by date, so I wonder if I was able to capture all of the photos.
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