Go Animate!

One of the many reasons why I love working at Magee school and in the Kettle Moraine School District is the great team of library media specialists (LMS) I get to work with.  They all have great ideas and we share with each other all the time.  Recently, Debbie Thompson, LMS from Dousman Elementary, was telling me about how she was having her 5th graders make stop motion videos using the Chromebook and WeVideo.  I thought that would be a great thing for my 4th and 5th graders to try.  I didn't think that the students had much experience with animation or stop motion video so I wanted to have them try an online tool first.  I had heard a lot about the tool, ABCYa! Animate.  I tried using it and it was a lot of fun and easy to use.  I introduced it to students and they took off!  I was really excited to see all of the different animations they

created.  The tool allows you to save your animation and then students emailed them to themselves so they could share them with others.  Next week we will start the stop motion video.  I can't wait to see what they create then!

Here is an example of one of the animations a student created.  This one is by 5th grader, November.