Google Slides can be used for much more than presentations. One fun way to use slides is to create stop motion videos. Essentially, each slide becomes a frame in the video. When the slideshow is set to automatically play at a fast speed, it looks like a stop motion video. Another option is to create a screencast of the finished slideshow presentation. Screencastify is a great Chrome extension for creating screencasts.
Integration Ideas:
- Tell/retell a story
- Animate a map to show historical changes/movements
- Illustrate a science concept like cell division
- Illustrate changes to an environment
- Define a vocabulary term
- Illustrate or explain a math concept
- Create a music video (by screencasting the slideshow and adding audio)
- Retell a historical event (or reflect on how it "could have happened")
- Animate notes on a music staff (optional: screencast and record yourself playing along)
- Show the steps in creating a piece of art (like a time lapse)
- Many more!
How do I do this?
- Blog post from Control + Alt + Achieve with detailed directions and ideas.
- Video Tutorial (7:47)
If Google Slides is too complex for your younger learners, you could have them to use Seesaw to create stop motion videos. To do this, you would want to mount your iPad on a stand or set it on a shelf with the camera hanging over the edge. It needs to be set up, so it doesn't move between frames.
Students could then use the video feature and record a sequence of images. They could arrange the objects in front of the camera and move items slightly for each image, recording for just a second and then pausing the video between each frame. When they click the checkmark to submit their video, it will play as a stop motion.
Here is an example:
