Names in Motion 2010 (1) from Mr. Hodgson on Vimeo.
I like to start the first day of school with some fun technology and last year, I had my sixth graders jump headfirst into Pivot Stickfigure to make a movie that included letters in their name. I love that when parents ask “what did you do today,” they can answer, “we made a movie.”
Their only instructions from me are that I want them to include the letters of their name in their short stopmotion movie. What am I looking for? Time to chat with my new students and a sense of who is pretty comfortable with the computers and with trying something new (only one of my students had used Pivot before). I smiled when I heard a boy shout out from the back of the room, “I’m the expert. I can help.”
That’s what I want to hear!
I then grabbed finished movies (a few are still in process) and put them together into longer collections.
Here is one such collection:
Peace (in the names),
Kevin
I love your idea! I am going 1 to 1 computers this year, but not one computer in our school is up and working yet. I have been so anxious to get started creating things like your movies. Thanks for sharing!
Good luck — it is an easy way to engage the kids with technology.
Kevin