You may not be aware of this cool  feature in Frames 6, but the media library includes clip art that animates when you move it along a path on a single frame! You can also use the drawing tools to create your own animated clip art to use in Frames!

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Topics: animation

Using chroma key is a great way to transport your students across time and space. What is chroma key?

When you use chroma key, you combine two images (or videos) together by removing a specific color (or making it transparent) from the top image.

When you use chroma key, the top image includes a main character in front of a single color. You may have heard of 'blue screen" or "green screen" because of the common use of these hues.

Even if you aren't familiar with the techniques, you probably have some idea how it works already. Think about a weather reporter. They stand in front of a map that you know isn't really there. That is because the map, or background changes, and they are really standing in front of a green screen.

Using the idea of chroma key, students can become:

• explorers in a different time or place
• protagonists in their own story
• tour guides at historical sites
• part of personalize greetings
• comic book heroes

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Topics: digital storytelling, animation

Frames has tools that make it perfect for stopmotion, cartooning, claymation, and digital storytelling. While there are a lot of features, it doesn’t have to be difficult to get started.

Like all our tools, you will find Recipe tutorials that can help you learn enough to have the confidence to start with your students. You can follow the tutorial directions to build some really fun curriculum projects, or use them as inspiration. Here are some ideas.

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Topics: frames, digital storytelling, claymation, stopmotion, animation

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Topics: pbl, animation, STEM, authentic task, science, STEAM

From the moment they wake up in the morning, animated cartoons and powerful digital stories surround our students. Animation and digital storytelling provide a myriad of opportunities for high-level performance tasks that engage students in Common Core Standards for English Language Arts.

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Topics: frames, common core, digital storytelling, standards, 21st century classroom, animation, interview