During my project, my students will gain information literacy in a a few different ways:
1. Before working on their stop animation video, students have to research, choose, evaluate and plan accordingly their project topic and their approach to address the topic so that they comply with specific Georgia Performance Standard or a Common Core State Standard. Thus, their inquiry about the sleep cycle, the metamorphosis of a caterpillar or the photosynthesis must be planned according to a specific standard, grade level and subject.
2. When students plan to work on their video, they have to explore and choose some resources that will inform them about the content they will have to explain in the video. They also might gather resources on how to use the app myCreate such as tutorials on YouTube. In addition, students are informed that they can only use resources such as images that are published online as free to use. Therefore, they will be locating, organizing, analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing and ethically using a variety of resources.
3. Finally, they will not only be processing gathered information and organizing it in a creative way, but their results will be reported through the final product of this project, the stop animation video, and their reflection on how they performed throughout the project.
Out of curiosity, why are you restricting students to using images that are only published as free? I try to do that as well, but my students and I have found it hard to do when we're looking for specific items. The fair use rule helps sometimes too.
ReplyDeleteThis is the second time today I have heard about stop animation. I never heard the terminology before, but I am curious how it works. I will have to check out the myCreate app.
Lucas,
ReplyDeleteReally cool that you are using stop animation. I know that it is hard to make some of those videos- but they are so much more unique than simple presentations.
As far a limiting images, I think it can be a valuable skill, especially considering how important teaching digital citizenship skills are. Britannica Image Quest is a good resource for free, easily citable pictures if you haven't already checked it out.
Jack
Lucas,
ReplyDeleteI am also interested to see examples of the presentations that will be created from your projects. Very interesting. I agree with John about teaching digital citizenship. I have noticed working with high school students that they do not realize that copyright affects images online. They think that if it is there that it is free to use and that is not always the case. I also agree that your project address information literacy very well.