IHMS Tech Tips

Stop motion videos are the digital ages' flipbooks.  You take a series of photos of an object or subject moving slightly from one frame to the next and then animate.  In doing so, the object appears to be moving. If you've ever seen the Lego movies, you've seen stop motion in action.  There are TONS of stop motion examples on YouTube. I used the below video to introduce my students to the project: I had my students created a "pre-viz" for their stop motion video.  They had the option of using Google Docs, StoryboardThat , or hand-drawing.  From there, we used PhotoBooth to take the photographs and then imported those photos into iMovie.  I did allow students to use their cell phones to take the pictures if they wanted, as it's very awkward to take photos using the Macbook.  Keep in mind, iMovie only allows .1 frames per second, so it will require 100 photos to have a 10-second animation.   Once the students had their photos taken,...

Last week, my 1st hour students used the green screen for the first time.  They used iMovie to record and edit their films and thoroughly enjoyed the process.  While at first iMovie seems daunting (to me anyway), the students caught on quickly and ran with it. Here are some tips and tricks for using the green screen with iMovie from my 1st hour class blogs: http://techtipsmacbook.blogspot.com/2017/10/how-to-make-green-screen-video-with.html http://techtipsihms.blogspot.com/2017/10/green-screen-and-imovie.html https://technologytips4teach.blogspot.com/2017/10/how-to-use-green-screen-green-screen-is.html https://technologytoday50.blogspot.com/2017/10/imovie-greenscreen-tutorial.html Here are a few examples of their movies from last week: The Three Little Pigs The Ugly Duckling Jack and the Beanstalk Chicken Little Goldilocks and the Three Bears There is tons of information out there online, on Pinterest, etc. on how to integrate use of the green screen into the c...