Thing #11

I went to the awards website and I had a hard time navigating the website. I could never find the web 2.0 winners. I decided to check out the web 2.0 tool called "Stop Frame Animator" from Culture Street, because I read about it last Friday from an article that was posted on my Scoop. It account. I get a daily Scoop. It and the website shows me articles and blogs that they think I would be interested in. Mine is all education and technology postings. This one is from the blog Free Technology for Teachers . It is all about Stop Frame Animation .

After waiting for the site to load, I just clicked "Start." I then chose my scenery. I chose a stage with a red curtain, I chose the stick figure, and started to move his arms and legs around. I finally figured out that this is a stop motion so I can't just move it around and expect it to start moving. So every time I moved his arms or legs I clicked the "camera" and it took a picture of the stick figure. I put it props and played around with the music and the sound effects. This would be a great story telling project, however it takes patience and time to create a good looking stop motion as a student will have to be careful how the move the character and how often they take pictures. The teacher would have to come up with a detailed rubric on the details, design, and story of the project.

From what I could tell it was super easy to use. However my only cons were that I could only do a stop motion for 10 seconds and I could not email it or save it. It is still a fun website though!