Another school year has come to a close and another group of amazing 8th grade students have moved onward to high school. In the months leading up to their graduation, these students absolutely amazed me with a variety of high-quality animation projects. I share these with you now (don't forget you can toggle them to full-screen), enjoy!
The animations included in the compilation above were created throughout the school year using a variety of methods and tools (stop-motion photography, Stykz, Keynote, and Animation-ish). I definitely plan to share lessons and instructional activities using these tools in the future, my students really enjoy creating with each of them.
The second animation (above) is purely stop-motion photography. This project took a lot of time, effort and planning by the students. Overall, about 2,000 digital photographs were used to create the 3-minute tour of our school building. As the students created the tour section by section, we reviewed the new additions before each subsequent photographing session. Those reviews provided the next group of students with inspiration and ideas to continue finding creative ways to conduct the tour.
The beauty of working on projects like this is that I will be able to share these fine examples with the next year of 8th grade students. I have no doubt they will build on the ideas and continue to be innovative youth media artists.
