Student made Anime on @redsoftware Animation creator #edapp #mlearning #artsed #lessonplan

 

My 6th grade students studied a unit on Japan so I figured they could collaborate to create a piece of Japanese inspired animation (Anime) by using @redsoftware 's app: Animation Creator

In the past, I have done Manga work with my students, where they study the art of that time period while they learn about it in their sixth grade Social Studies class.

I wanted my students to utilize the Animation Creator app before they left me for the year, as I had some great examples in the past when my students made Greek Myth animations

If you would like to do something along this line, or a lesson on Anime, you can check out this Prezi that is a halfway conversion from my original Powerpoint with some elements copied from Lori Ingham's Prezi 

Copy of Anime on Prezi

You can also read about a recent Horry Independent article on my other students and how their use of IPods help them learn about their art content.

 

Overall though, I must say that I was a little disappointed with the school's IPods and the app itself. Not sure if it was a the school's wireless or the IPod's software, or a combination of both. SO I apologize to my 6th graders that not ALL of your animations made it into the film as I had a lot of issues of taking all thirty IPods home and uploaded them one at a time to YouTube .

8th grade Prom Decoration Commitee Commercial on April 1st created by Go Animate

Go Animate is a great site where students can easily create cartoons by typing in their scripts and the cartoon characters will automatically speak it out. There is a difference between Go Animate and GoAnimate4Schools, and there is a more advanced GoAnimate4Schools that my students will be participating in so that they can make longer and more creative animations.   Listed below is an example of the work that I did with this web 2.0 tool

Here is a commercial that I made up for our school in order to get 8th graders to create work for their prom

GoAnimate4Schools.com: Prom Decoration Commercial by James Gorcesky

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate4Schools. It's free and fun!

Toon Doo tutorials: Digital storytelling in the form of embeddable comic books

Here is a collection of my Jing tutorials that I made up for my students so that they could independently publish their work from ToonDoo into the form of a comic book on our Edmodo site.

 

How to take your completed ToonDoo pages and arrange them into your book

 

 

Once in Toon Doo, click on "Toons" and then "Your Toondoos" Afterwards, click on EDIT under a page and you will be where the video starts

 

 

How to take your completed Toon Doo Book and publish it to edmodo