Data is changing our world. While our youngest learners are just learning to count and write, they still need to build strong foundations for working with data. To help get them ready for future work in data science, focus on collecting and visualizing data.
"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough."
— Albert Einstein
Use the following children's books as the basis for powerful storytelling that gets students to count, measure, and analyze information.
Read MoreTopics: digital storytelling, Wixie, number sense, data
Students love to be a part of the action and using a green screen makes it easy to jump into a range of digital classroom projects. Imagine sharing information as an animal, transporting yourself back in time or exploring a far away culture. Green screen can help.
Green screen commonly refers to removing the background from an image so it can be easily combined with a different image. A "green screen" is what you put your actor in front of as you capture their image. The computer then uses a process called chroma key to remove a single color or color range from the background, making it easy to combine with a new background.
Read MoreTopics: digital storytelling, Wixie
"Because writing is thinking and learning requires thinking, students who write as they are learning think more and thus learn more."
Read MoreTopics: creative software, ela, common core, digital storytelling, digital age learning, writing
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.
Read MoreTopics: frames, digital storytelling, claymation, stopmotion, animation
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.
Topics: frames, common core, digital storytelling, standards, 21st century classroom, animation, interview
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