May 21, 2008
What will you be doing at 11am today?
Free downloadable pdf templates for last minute activity sheets are available on the ALIA NSS website.
Check out these sites for more information, assistance and activities for storytelling sessions.
This easy to navigate site contains a wealth of information about many aspects of storytelling including Storytelling in the Classroom
Lesson Plans & Activities
Story Library
Articles
Links
Curriculum Ideas Exchange
Storytelling Store
Story Arts Theatre
Here are free resources for storytelling (or story telling)—including the acclaimed series Gifts of Story—all from children’s author Aaron Shepard. (For additional stories, see Aaron’s World of Stories.) Enjoy the magic of story!
Digital Storytelling is a fantastic way to engage students, teachers and just about anyone else who has ever wanted to be the next Ken Burns or Steven Spielberg. There are many different definitions of “digital storytelling,” but in general, all of them revolve around the idea of combining the longstanding art of telling stories with any of a variety of available multimedia tools, including graphics, audio, video animation, and Web publishing.
David Jakes [
JakesOnline] has an amazing collection of links and resources about digital storytelling including an excellent 13 page pdf
tutorial for PhotoStory 3.
See also our previous post
Create – Animate! for information about resources to support digital storytelling.
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Posted by janning
May 7, 2008
The 2008 Scitech Animation Film Festival is now open for entries. Students can win great prizes for their school and are invited to submit a two minute animation in either Flash, 3D or Stop Motion and enter Scitech’s annual Animation Film Festival before Friday, 1 August. To take part schools must register their interest by June 1
2007 Winning entries can be viewed at the 2007 Animation Film Festival website
A classroom activity assessment rubric is available for download along with the entry form.
The festival is open to students from Years 4-12. The most impressive creations will be viewed at Horizon – The Planetarium, one of the biggest screens in Australasia!
The ABC’s RoLLeRMâCHé website offers young people the opportunity to be creative and to learn about basic animation techniques. The site also affords the opportunity to be published on the web. Users must Register as a Roller Coaster member to be published.Other useful Animation sites and tools to consider:
Stop motion Pro: http://www.stopmotionpro.com/ – Free Trial Version available and basic tutorial.
Pencil: http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php?id=HomePencil – Pencil is an animation/drawing software. Pencil is free and open source.
Morphx: http://www.norrkross.com/software/morphx/morphx.php -Norrkross MorphX can be used for calculating images or movies where one image transforms into another.
Array: http://www.mediumk.com/array/macosx/index.html -Array is an easy to use animation program.
FramebyFrame: http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/BrendWorld/Software.html – FrameByFrame lets you create stop-motion animation videos using any webcam/video camera connected to a Mac.
Blender: http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/features/ -Blender is more appropriate for high-school students. It’s a free open source 3D content creation suite that can export movies.And so that students don’t forget that animation is all about the ancient art of story-telling -
CeltX: http://www.celtx.com/ – Combines full-feature scriptwriting with pre-production support and also enables online collaboration.I’m sure students and teachers can have a lot of fun with these options!
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