This year I was assigned a computer media course to teach which intimidated me since I really don’t know that much about that stuff. Clearly, I learned at least as much as the kids did. I also learned (again) that sometimes you need to give the kids freedom to play with your media toys and they’ll do some things that would have never occurred to you to try. One of the better projects told the story of Cinderella with the help of a few green screen effects.  The students uploaded their video to YouTube, so you can judge for yourself what you think of it.

I’ve love history, but I have to say that I love history’s quirkiness. Maybe that’s why this made me laugh.

I’m always fascinated when I see these kinds of videos. They are simple but make a very clear point with little or no fancy props or flourish. As a Social Studies teacher and a Computer teacher seeing these videos leaves me wondering if or how I could accomplish something similar with my students.

It’s that time of year again and my students are just about done creating stop motion videos. Here’s one of the first ones to come in.