Collaborative Stop-Motion Project

Hi Florence & Cyndi,

Thanks for your interest in possibly having your students get involved in our collaborative stop-motion project, The Longfellow Ten! The project is in it's second year and we would love to get more students involved. We try to make it as easy as possible to participate. Here are a few details about the club:

- Students create stop-motion films around important academic terms. Currently, we have films about literary & science terms. However, we invite new subject areas, like math, social studies, or foreign languages.

- We host all our videos on Vimeo (not YouTube. You can either post the video to vimeo yourself, or send it to us and we will host it on our vimeo account for you.

- Each new class that participates has to come up with an original name for their group. Right now we have three classes, in three different states, that are involved. They are The Northern Contingent, The East-Coast Syndicate, and The Midwest Collective.

If you have more questions please let me know. If your students have any questions, please have them ask via our project blog:
http://lf10.wordpress.com/

Thanks again for your interest in joining The Longfellow Ten, and helping us in our crusade to raise awareness of important academic terms and concepts through absurd stop-motion films! :)

http://lf10.wordpress.com/

Hi Mary,

Thanks for your response to my post! The project is open to new members year-round. Currently, we have films around literary and science terms. However, it would be great to add new subject areas, like Health.

If you'd like more specific details about the project please feel free to e-mail me: mrmayo.org [at] gmail.com. Hope you and your students can join our project in the Spring and help us in our crusdae to spread knowledge of important academic terms through absurd stop-motion films!

Thanks- George

http://lf10.wordpress.com

Thanks for your response. My students and I use iStop-Motion and iMovie on Apple iBooks. We just started using iStop-Motion this school year and we love it. Here's a Google doc I created a while back detailing how I use Apple lap-tops and iMovie to create stop-motion films: http://bit.ly/50Ah9s

There are many ways to go about creating stop-motion video in the classroom. Kevin Hodgson, another teacher who is part of this project, uses Dell computers and Stopmotion Animator Freeware:
http://www.clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html

Kevin has written extensively about his experiences creating stop-motion films with his 6th grade students:
http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/category/adventures-of-thelonius/

Wesley Fryer, who is not a part of this project, has a great wiki page full of resources for teachers looking to experiment with stop-motion:
http://handouts.wesfryer.com/stopmotion

Hope some of this helps. We are hoping to get some new members to our project this year. It's not necessary to have any experience with stop-motion to join. We didn't have any experience ourselves when we started this project over a year ago! I hope you and your students will consider joining us in our effort to spread knowledge of important academic terms through absurd stop-motion films!
http://lf10.wordpress.com

Paula,

Please feel free to e-mail me if you have more specific questions aboout the project: mrmayo.org [at] gmail.com. Or send me a tweet @georgemayo

Thanks again!

Hello,

Just wanted to repost my invitation to participate in our collaborative middle school stop-motion project known as The Longfellow Ten. We are a collection of middle school students in three different states that create stop-motion films about important academic terms and concepts. We're always looking for new members. If you're interested please let me know!
http://lf10.wordpress.com