This is a different sharing than I usually do for the Slice of Life Challenge at Two Writing Teachers. It's also number 27 of 31!
My job as literacy coach takes different paths, and in technology, I'm often exploring new apps that students might use for creating and communicating non-fiction, fiction, poetry, art, and so on. My slice of life Tuesday took another different path!
All the students in my school choose
individual unit topics and the curriculum is built around that topic, with both
student and teacher input. Two students interested in animation and several
teachers had an entertaining session with our technology teacher,
learning a little about the stop-motion animation technique, and watching
several movie trailers about a movie coming in the fall, an animation
movie! According to Wikipedia, “stop-motion
animation is a technique to use a physically manipulated object appear to
move on its own.”
move on its own.”