Presenting to the class

As part of one of my teaching courses students were asked to give a 10 minute presentation. The criteria was broad. We simply had to present on anything that would be useful to preservice visual arts teachers. I chose to give a brief tutorial on stop motion animation in the classroom. We talked about the ways animation could be linked into the syllabus and curriculum, the relevance this medium had to students' lives and the positive effects on motivation and student engagement. I was able to get some samples of student work from a year 8 class at Newcastle High. In the space of six weeks they were able to create relatively successful claymation vids (about 2 minutes in length) with original sets, characters and narratives. To finish the presentation I gave a quick demo of how to edit in Windows Movie Maker. This is super freakin easy. I feel that demonstrating in this program showed just how achievable 4D can be in the highschool classroom.