The Fortress of Nerditude: How to change your @edmodo avatar w/ @piterwilson Stop Motion Webcam #edtech #web20 #socialmedia #studentgallery

Students got to create animated "movies" of themselves utilizing the netbook's built in web cam and the great website Web Cam Stop Motion

I have used other Web cam sites in the past, such as GIFUP, ( you can CLICK HERE to check out a previous post that I made using GIFUP for the same purpose)

But what I like better about Web Cam stop motion is that you can take up to 20 photos, it keeps track of them using the "onion skin" mode and it works great with the built in web cam

I gave my students the option to change their Edmodo avatar or display it on the class wall for Edmodo. If you scroll down to the bottom of the post - you can see our student gallery

DIRECTIONS TO APPEAR ON EDMODO WALL:

Plan out a work of animation
If the site asks for access to the web cam / microphone ALLOW
Shoot 20 Photos of doing something in a progressive movement
Hit: "Sava and Publish Animation"
Then select "Watch this Animation" to save the actual image, you can also post it to Facebook or Twitter by selecting the other options
Your animation will appear on its own screen, then select "Download this animation"
Your image will now appear on its own web page. In case you get a red "X" on the screen, go back to the last step and right click on the "Download" link and select "Save Link As" or "Save Target As" instead
Once your image appears on its own web page (probably surrounded by just white) right click on the image and select "Save Image As / Same Picture As"
Make sure you know WHERE you are saving it, I'd recommend your "My Pictures" folder
NOW go onto Edmodo
Type something in the status update box, such as "here is my pic"
Click "file" to attach
Browse for the file you just downloaded and hit open or ok
In the send to box - send it to your class