U.S.+History+Animation+Video+-+Mr.+Wilde

Here is an animation that I created that has to do with segregation in US History (to accompany To Kill a Mockingbird). @http://goanimate.com/movie/0K3HK_x6yJ98?utm_source=linkshare&uid=0iyJFHSk9Fdc

Your students should be able to create a 2 minute video in pairs within 3 days and we can share it with the class on the 4th day. We can play them in the library if you would like. OR - if it takes them 4 days to create the videos I can burn them on a DVD and you can share them in your classroom on the 5th day.

Day 1: Brainstorm script and look for pictures (Slim demonstrates Creative Common picture search) Day 2: Start animation (Slim demonstrates animation creation and PowerPoint to JPEG) Day 3: Finish animation and send to Slim for video creation

And if needed we can insert another day of work on the animation in the middle of days 2 and 3. I'm thinking we probably will need the extra day.....

So, I'd say they should walk into the library on May 24th with a partner, an era and a historical event. They can have it be people discussing a historical event (like my example) OR a re-enactment of the event.

Hi David - Just wanted to let you know that I've been playing around with characters on GoAnimate. There are a lot of politician characters from the last decades (Bush Jr and Sr., Ronald Reagan, the Clintons, Dick Cheney, Obama and the rest). But if one were to want to put Truman's head on a body it will be a little hard to do (not impossible, but a little more work). So let students know that they may not be able to create Woodrow Wilson so that he's totally natural-looking (or themselves for that matter). It is do-able, however!

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