I really enjoyed our exploration of stop-motion this week with our groups in class. I chose to explore this further on my own with the iStopMotion app on the iPad to create another short stop motion narrative of my own.
I agree with Professor Jochum’s thoughts about story telling becoming a lost art. Children tend to loose this ability around the age of 7 or 8. Not only do they no longer want to hear stories, they no longer have the vivid imagination they once had and often stop telling them.
However, I think pushing students to use this skill in the classroom can push them to think critically, solve problems, explore their identity, and appreciate the diversity of their classmates.
One of the classes I am currently observing is a high school advanced studio art class. These students range from 10th to 12th graders. This is your average, New York City high school, and generally these students are doing just what they need to do to get by in the art room. However, I was talking to them about past projects and what they enjoyed doing in the art room and they told me about a video project they recently did about their neighborhood and “Where They Are From”. This is a classic TC lesson plan put into action successfully. Students were able to rent out cameras from the school and take them home/around the neighborhood to film. They spent their class time learning how to use iMovie in the computer lab to create their videos. At the end, they each got the chance to share their video with the class. It was great to see the students so excited to talk about their outcomes.
In one of my previous projects, I did a video exploration of “Things I Like”. After hearing the students enthusiasm about their personal video projects, I was thinking that this “Things I Like” prompt could be given to students. The lesson plan would look something like this:
Through filming a video about the things they like using iPhones and iMovie, students will learn that they can put together 10-15 short clips of things they like to create a video narrative which reflects their background and personality.
I think your lesson idea of a "Things I Like" video project would be really exciting and interesting for a highschool class. Kids in highschool are growing up with all these different types of media and I think its a great way to challenge them to use it in a more creative way to tell a story that is all about them. I think it would be really fun and would get them to think about what they really like and how they could show that in an interesting way. It would also introduce video editing to them maybe for the first time, which would probably get them even more engaged.
ReplyDeleteHannah, I really like this animation. It's fantastic. You combined the video and animation together, and every objects seem to have their lives. Certainly, it looks like a story that your drawing give them lives.
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