Journal Week 5.

Today's class began with a very interesting and slightly cheeky activity. We began by making our own adult's only animated short movie from scratch. The website www.afilm.com is an animated movie maker website which allows you to choose your own cheesy stereotypical characters, the scene you would like your movie to take place in and the music to go along with it. So I decided to choose a romantic background with 70's boogie nights music and characters by the name of Letitia and Stud. The plot of the movie was a sexy rendezvous between the chatty and pompous Letitia and the male model who loves puppies and kittens, Stud. The movie is titled Love at First Sight and you can watch it on my blog, hope you enjoy it. The movie is for adults and should not be used in a class room setting amongst children.

The activities to follow were fabulous and intriguing websites that Greg introduced the class to, and would be useful websites that give primary students that opportunity to be creative and design their own animations. The website www.zimmertwins.com for me was not as straight forward and easy to use compared to the previous animation website, and I presume it would be a little difficult for children also. However, it is a fun and an engaging website that gives students  a chance to design their own comic strip with dialogue. The website also entails fun and quirky movies that students can watch.

Sketch Swap is a website with a blank screen that allows you to be artistic and draw with the mouse on the computer, which I must admit is quite a difficult task to do. When you finish drawing the picture the program draws a picture back to you and sometimes they can be offensive and cheeky. For example Kate received a picture of a pig and said you with an arrow pointing to the drawing.  The images created by the students also gives them the opportunity to email them to their friends and family.

The website www.buildyourwildself.com gives children the opportunity to choose a human characters features, clothing etc. It allows them to be creative and experiment with adding different parts of animals features to their human character. The website has an extensive range of animal features for students to explore with.

I feel all of the programs are fantastic and engaging websites that primary students would find fascinating. It gives them the opportunity to be creative and let their imaginations run wild while learning ICT design skills. All of the programs which were visited and explored today have been posted on my blog.

Mel.