Stop Animation:
The children in our Early Phase classrooms have been born into a digital world. Animation is a part of many of the texts that our students are exposed to each day. Due to the popular demand and rise of stop animation, being a main ticket seller at cinema booths across the globe.
It is important as educators that we immerse our students in their interests and recent technologies that they are exposed to on a daily basis. Therefore by doing so students will become eager to learn and take ownership of their learning (Plass, Homer & Hayward, 2009). Stop Animation is a simple but fun tool that can be used in the classroom through all KLA’s
Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Stop motion animation using clay is called clay animation or "clay mation".
Creating a stop animation is fun and simple where all students are guaranteed to be engaged in the process. All that is needed is an idea, art resources, a camera, and a moviemaker program.
There are many ways in which stop animation can be used in the classroom as a basic ICT tool. In the early years students can create stop motion sequences that retell parts of a story or rhyme; Use felt boards and felt pieces as the manipulatives for a stop motion sequences; Undertake whole class joint constructions of stop motion animation sequences as part of morning sessions or focus lessons; Have students work in small groups to create stop motion sequences based on number stories;
For the middle years students stop motion can be used just as effective in the early years. Students in the middle years can create stop motion sequences on science concepts such as life cycles, how things move and features of the earth and sky.
The teaching instruction for delivering stop animation is an instructionalist approach as you develop students’ knowledge, understanding and skill to be able to successfully create a stop animation sequence without support. Once students begin the design process the teacher will be using a constructionalist approach, where students are in control of the design idea and brief of the sequence.
Stop animation in the classroom is a highly engaging and rewarding learning activity that: provides students with opportunities to draw on their multiple intelligences; engages students in creative and logical thinking and problem solving processes; can provide students with opportunities to share their ideas and communicate their understandings in a creative way; can encourage team work and collaboration between students.
In conclusion the opportunities with stop animation are endless, how students engage in the learning sequence will depend on the teacher instruction and the resources at hand.
References:
Plass, J., Homer, B., & Hayward, E. (2009). Design factors for educationally effective animations. (21), 31-61. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/docview/200383441
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