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This app is the default video editing app for iOS. It comes pre-loaded on most Apple products and can be used to edit and combine video clips, photos, and audio into one video file. Click here to view Apple's user guide for iMovie on the iPad.

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Learn how to use iMovie on your iPad to turn your videos and photos into stunning movies and Hollywood-style trailers.

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This video tutorial gives a rundown of the basics of using iMovie.

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This tutorial goes into more advanced features of iMovie including green screen, split-screen, and picture-in-picture.

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Click here for teacher-created lesson plans using iMovie.

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Explore this collection of iMovie lesson plans created by elementary, middle, and high school teachers.

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This blog has an "iMovie" tag that features examples of lessons that incorporated iMovie.

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First graders in Ms. Reese’s class at Laburnum Elementary have been learning how to tell time to the half hour (SOL1.8), and today they used Photo Booth iMovie to create their own videos about time. First we reviewed how to tell time using the model clocks. Then we discussed what students are doing…

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This web page gives ideas for using iMovie in the classroom for every level of Bloom's Taxonomy. It includes student samples.

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iMovie for ISO devices (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone) is an incredible app to use in the classroom. With an iPad or an even smaller iPod touch or iPhone equipped with iMovie you can put in to students...

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This is a simple app that can be used by younger students to animate images and record sound. Click here for an overview from Common Sense Media.

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Used effectively, ChatterPix Kids offers a lot of options for elementary school teachers, specifically for storytelling and creative projects. For example, use it to create short book reviews for the library. Or you could have your students research and speak as a historical figure. Teaching about animals and habitats? Students can make their drawings or sculptures talk to share learning. For a poetry unit, students can illustrate a character to photograph and "read" their poem. Teachers can also get in on the ChatterPix fun and use it to create lesson hooks. For example, teaching a unit on Mozart? Create a talking photograph of Mozart to introduce the unit. The possibilities are endless and limited only by you and your students' creativity.

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ChatterPix Kids Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Used effectively, ChatterPix Kids offers a lot of options for elementary school teachers, specifically for storytelling and creative projects. For example, use it to create short book reviews for the library. Or you could have your students research and speak as a historical figure. Teaching about animals and habitats?

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This brief tutorial gives an overview of the app and models the simple features.

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This app allows students to create videos using green screen, enabling them to set their videos anywhere they can imagine! This link to an interactive Google board gives an introductory video, examples, and links to helpful resources.

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FINAL 25 Days of Digital Tools and Ideas For Future Ready Librarians 2021 

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25 1 Click on the card that goes with each day in December to find a digital tool, ideas and video. The Days of Digital Tools and Ideas from Future Ready Librarians 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

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Do Ink provides a list of tutorials to help you get acquainted with the app's features.

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Green Screen by Do Ink Tutorials. How to create Green Screen videos and use all the features that Green Screen by Do Ink has to offer.

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Click here for teacher-created lesson plans using Green Screen by Do Ink.

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This blog by Do Ink features real-life examples of how teachers have used the green screen app in their classroom. It has links to examples and lesson plans

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The official blog of DoInk.com - mobile apps (Green Screen, Animation and Drawing) for the iPad and...

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Parkcrest News - Commotion In The Ocean (from Sheila Gourlay)

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An example of a K/1 class that wrote their own newsroom script to share what they had learned about ocean animals. Their teacher then used Green Screen by Do Ink to film their project.

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This page gives many examples on how to connect ChatterPix to the curriculum

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(Image credit: Duck Duck Moose)

The best ChatterPix Kids tips and tricks for teaching are essential to help get the most out of the creative app.

ChatterPix Kids lets teachers and students turn any image into a talking character with their voice recording added into a moving mouth animation. It's easy enough for kindergarteners to use but fun and creative enough for older students, too.

Since the app has no specific goal, it is very open and can be used in lots of creative ways. That's what this guide is all about, giving you ideas to help you get the most out of this free app for your classroom and remote learning experience.

So, read on for the best ChatterPix Kids tips and tricks for your class progression.

Introduce a subject

Duck Duck Moose's ChatterPix Kids is a great tool for introducing a new subject with the character of that, front and center. For example, you might introduce a new biology class on animals with an animated monkey telling the students what they are going to be learning about.

All you need to do is download an image of the animal, record your 30-second voice clip, and share that with the group through your preferred method. It's fun, concise, and can be informative - all while engaging your students ready to learn.

(Image credit: ChatterPix)

Let students express themselves

As a fun way of helping students to think about themselves, and what they feel, have them each create a video that expresses their current mood. This allows them to interact with real-world creations while recording their feelings over the top.

Offer suggestions involving random objects as a means to express themselves, such as a picture of a red tomato talking to share being angry, a side-on banana with blueberries as eyes to show happy smiles, or a balloon with spaghetti hair to show feeling silly.

Use a location for geography and history

Have students explain something about an area being studied in geography and history by using an image of an object or famous person related to that place. Learning about San Francisco? Have a photo of one of the cable cars talk as if its front is a face. This could explain about the history of the city, the cars themselves, or even a famous person who rode them once.

Or perhaps have an image of a local tree describing how it is out of place growing there, having been brought in from another country originally.

(Image credit: ChatterPix)

Review a book

For literacy classes, have students take a photo of the front cover of a book and then get them to record their 30-second audio clip summarizing their take.

This could be the student reading a favorite part, giving an overall summary, or sharing what they thought about the book. By leaving it open-ended, students are given creative freedom to express their real feelings about the experience this book provided.

Bring history alive

Set the task of making a famous historical person, or several of them, talk. For example, have them choose a former U.S. president and ask the students to find an image and have them say something he was known for.

This allows students to add in a bit of character of their own, and to bring the historical figure to life. By having each student do a different person and then playing them back in class, everyone can learn from each other's creations. Doing one first as a teacher, as an example, is a great way to get everyone started.

(Image credit: Duck Duck Moose)

Animate creations

For an artistic project, have students create their own characters. These can be drawn, painted, stuck together, cut out, created on a programs - anything that allows the student to express themselves.

Then have them bring that character to life with their audio clip in ChatterPix Kids. This will allow them not only to be creative but to verbally express what it is they've made, helping them to think about the creative process.

Animate a shape

For really young students, it's a nice idea to animate shapes. This allows the student to see the shape for more than it is, creating other associations. It can help them learn the name of that shape and remember it in future.

As students get the hang of it, have them draw their own shapes and animate them, to show they've learned but also to help them better integrate that learning with their own ideas.

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ChatterPix Kids: Best Tips And Tricks For Teaching

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(Image credit: Duck Duck Moose) The best ChatterPix Kids tips and tricks for teaching are essential to help get the most out of the creative app. ChatterPix Kids lets teachers and students turn any image into a talking character with their voice recording added into a moving mouth animation.

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A lesson plan on incorporating ChatterPix into studies of landforms.

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Review other landforms that the class has studied, listing them on chart paper or the board. Possible examples may include: lakes, rivers, plateaus, mountains, valleys, plains, islands, canyons, isthmus', deltas, peninsulas, hills.

Allow students time to review landform vocabulary using an existing Quizlet flashcard set or create your own set.

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Review other landforms that the class has studied, listing them on chart paper or the board. Possible examples may include: lakes, rivers, plateaus, mountains, valleys, plains, islands, canyons, isthmus', deltas, peninsulas, hills. Allow students time to review landform vocabulary using an existing Quizlet flashcard set or create your own set.

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Snowmen at Night (from Kate Lefley-Evans)

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Snowmen at Night (from Kate Lefley-Evans)

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An example of Kindergarten students using ChatterPix to animate their snowmen created with loose parts. This activity was based on the story Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner.

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Create stop motion videos with this easy-to-use app. Click here for an overview from Common Sense Media.

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As a Chemistry teacher, I really like the ability that this tool provides to have my students create their own low tech animations. One of the hardest things to convey in my subject is that all particles of matter are always moving except at absolute zero. That just does not convey well in 2D representations, but with this tool, students can show that movement very easily. As a Science Department, we envision continuing to use Stop Motion Studio to have students create short videos that demonstrate their understanding of a process or concept. I think this could be a powerful tool to use for review as each group in a class could be tasked to create a video on one of the concepts covered, and then share them with each other. As the videos include some text but are not text dependent, they could be especially useful for ELL students and students with differing abilities. The students could even be tasked with writing out the vocabulary used in the video in multiple languages to further assist in academic language acquisition.

While greater functionality is available in the paid version or for smaller incremental purchases, we did not find them necessary to create a quality product for our purposes. Some schools and districts might discourage the use of student devices and requiring them to download the app on a personal device for classroom use, but our school only has a limited number of laptops available for classroom usage and no tablets so the personal student device option was the best for us. In the future, I think we might create a dedicated Drive or Dropbox Folder for student projects, but the students would need to have that Drive or Dropbox account already set up before submission. It would make it easier however, to store and share the videos for review purposes. Overall, I am excited to think about more ways that my class can use this tool.

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Stop Motion Studio Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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As a Chemistry teacher, I really like the ability that this tool provides to have my students create their own low tech animations. One of the hardest things to convey in my subject is that all particles of matter are always moving except at absolute zero.

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Stop Motion Studio has created short tutorial videos for you and your students on everything from the basics to more specialized features.

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Stop Motion Studio video tutorials to master the basics with step-by-step instructions and visual demonstrations.

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Animator Kevin Parry gives helpful tips for getting started in stop motion

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This page provides tips and sample lesson ideas for using the app. Curriculum connections include math, science, language arts, and social studies for multiple ages.

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Bring out the budding filmmakers in your class with this easy-to-use app. Students can act in their videos or just use clay, drawing, and photos to create animated sequences that demonstrate events and concepts across subjects.

Benefits

Creates engaging opportunities for students to be active learners as they explain complex concepts or topics

The stop motion style makes it easier to understand events and concepts by breaking them down into smaller pieces

Develop sequences and materials for the video shows students to deepen their understanding of what they are learning.

Stop Motion Studio is a great tool to use in the classroom. It's been used by thousands of schools all over the world.

"This app combines still images to make a stop motion animation film. In the Social Studies classroom students can move figurines across the screen to show a historical event in action. In the Math classroom students can use virtual manipulatives to model the solution to a math problem." - classtechtips.com

"Stop Motion Studio gives students a captivating outlet for their creative ideas and voice. And during the production process, it introduces them to sophisticated concepts such time, storyboarding, audience, and citizenship, even at the youngest elementary age." - scarsdaleschools.org

Consider the lighting of the locations where students are creating their movies. Additional lighting improves image quality and reduces graininess.

Create simple backdrops. Solid-colored fabric or paper works well, as do photos or other still images.

Use a tripod for greater stability and to avoid the shaking camera effect.

To create a cohesive movie, students should sketch their ideas sequentially.

Cardboard IPad Stand

If you are just starting to make stop motion videos with your iPad, you've probably already discovered how much better they are when you can keep the tablet still when taking pictures. Designing and build our own Cardboard IPad Stand.

Storyboard

Planning your animation on paper saves time and energy. You can figure out all the details before committing to the animation. Storyboarding will also ensure that each group selects the one approach best suited to the basic concept. We prepared this printable storyboard template for you to use.

Stop Motion Studio is available in a free and a paid version. The free version does contain in-app purchases but has no advertisement. The full version is available with a huge discount for educational institutes in the Volume Purchase Program (VPP). The full version does not contain any in-app purchases or advertisements.

Purchase Stop Motion Studio or Stop Motion Studio for macOS from the VPP.

For a bulk purchase of the Android or Windows version of the app, please contact our support team.

Mobile Device Management

If your school uses a mobile device management system to deploy apps. You can define certain default options Stop Motion Studio uses.

isHelpManagerEnabled: Set to YES or true to enable the helpful hints shown within the app.

isGUISoundEnabled: Set to YES or true to enable the camera shutter sound.

isStoreProjectsIniCloudEnabled: Set to YES or true to enable iCloud support. All projects will be stored in iCloud.

Shared iPad allows sharing an iPad by multiple students. When enabled in the app, all projects are synced using iCloud. A student can start a project on one iPad and continue on a different iPad. This also ensures a student's work is always available even if their normal iPad is restored or purged of their user data. Please make sure to enable isStoreProjectsIniCloudEnabled when deploying the app. Shared iPad works on Stop Motion Studio version 10.1 or later.

With Shared iPad is enabled you can try out the synching of projects by creating a new project on an iPad, then removing and re-installing the app. You should find after a short delay the project re-appears ready for download.

We do not collect, use, disclose, transfer or store any personal information from children or anybody else. All data is stored locally on the device. Absolutly no data is transfered from the app without user consent i.e. project upload. Therefore neither COPPA nor FERPA does apply.

A printable comprehensive manual is available on our support page.

Visit our knowledge base to find answers to many common questions.

If you have a question about the app, how to use a feature or anything else. Feel free to email our customer support team. We are here to help.

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Bring out the budding filmmakers in your class with this easy-to-use app. Students can act in their videos or just use clay, drawing, and photos to create animated sequences that demonstrate events and concepts across subjects.

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An example of a video made with Stop Motion Studio to show long division with place value blocks.

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In addition to fulfilling aspects of the ADST curriculum, digital video production can access all subject areas. Research shows that it improves educational outcomes and student ownership, independence, and reflective skills. Peruse the research below to learn more!

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Benefits of video production in an elementary setting

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Benefits of video production in an elementary setting

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This paper shows that the use of digital video production in an elementary school led to pedagogical changes, increased student autonomy, and improved reflection and metacognition. In addition, it discusses the valuable professional development experienced by teachers involved in the project. Not only does this paper provide exemplars of ways to incorporate video production in the classroom, it is also a powerful advocate for this digital tool as an instigator of collaboration.

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This article provides an example of how integrating digital video production can provide a meaningful learning experience for students and teachers. In particular, it makes the connection between multimodal literacies and inquiry-based learning. It describes the process that the Grade 5 students went through to create their project, including examples of their script based on their research.

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Video Production as an Instructional Strategy

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Video Production as an Instructional Strategy

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This paper supports using video production as a way to access the curriculum based on K-12 teachers' experiences. The results of the study showed that it increased student engagement and understanding of content and provided an alternative to traditional assessment.

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Voice and Representation in Video Production

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Voice and Representation in Video Production

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This article examines issues with voice and representation in relation to the influences on youth digital media production. It presents a case study on the process of digital video production and young girls in an underserved school in Toronto.