Online Teaching Techniques: Using Stop-animation Videos in an Online Class

(W July 15, 4-5:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time)

Combat attrition with engaging assignments that can be sculpted to the student’s abilities and interest. Stop-animation videos are a short movies made with a series of photos taken from the same position and a handful of items that can be moved about to create story. In this workshop you will create your own stop-animation video of processes or phenomena, to cover main ideas or convey detailed information. Through this experience, you will see how this teaching technique can be used to deepen understanding, reinforce the use of terms, and work out the sequence of events for a content topic.

This 1.5-hour workshop is open to teachers of all grade levels and subject areas. As is the case in all CLC workshops, participants will experience this technique firsthand and then collaborate to create an application of this teaching practice to cover their content, skills, and learning objectives.