After choosing a verb and animating it, she also asks her students to come up with a fancy word, or synonym for their verb. To help her elementary students identify verbs, Texas educator Amy Clark has her students create a "Verbs are Words that Move" animation project. The new Frames 6 library even includes "Moving Mouth" files you can add to your face to animate using a single frame. Students can follow the steps in the Animated News Report tutorial to learn how to draw a face and animate a talking mouth. Florida educator Ingrid Jones does a fun All About Me Alliteration project over two class periods that teaches students to build their own characters and begin learning to animate. If you are looking to begin using Frames for cartooning, you need to get students to work with the drawing tools. Once students have created a movie this way, they would simply need to learn how to record their voice to create personification claymation. Import the entire folder of images to start building the animated video, then use the Clone tool to duplicate the frames and add the soundtrack. Take 6-10 pictures of the clay characters singing and playing instruments against a colorful background. Teams can work to locate plastic instruments or get crafty with chenille stems, bottle caps, and paper. Students can develop a character to sing or play music. Have small teams choose a song from a favorite band or a list you share with them. It doesn't matter if you are using clay, LEGO bricks, or cut paper!
If you want to get students started learning the techniques of stopanimation, a music video is a great place to start.
You can learn more about this exciting approach to exploring history, literature, and narrative writing in the free Digital Storytelling Resource Kit. While the process of research and writing and storyboarding is different, the process of creating a video for digital storytelling is similar to visual poetry. Then, have students create a visual poem that includes the poem along with illustrations, photos, voice narration, and music consistent with the emotions the poem evokes. To implement with students, have them read, reread, and explore the words in each line of the poem, discussing meaning and author’s intent. While not all lyrics are poetic (or appropriate), you could play “Caged Bird” by Alicia Keyes and show how this contemporary song pulls imagery from “Sympathy” by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Students love their favorite songs, so consider using lyrics as a form of poetry.
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