Another Day at Claymation/Comics Camp

We had an interesting day at our Claymation and Comic Camps yesterday, as kids in the movie section worked hard on their longer claymation movies (which have to be completed today for family) and we had two visitors to our Comic Camp — Hilary Price, whose comic Rhymes with Orange runs in about 150 newspapers, [...]

Sharing out: Claymation and Comics Summer Camp

We’re about half-way through with the four-day summer camps — one that focuses in claymation/stopmotion movies and the other that centers on comics and graphic novels. Both have been incredibly interesting and the middle school students (mostly boys) are very engaged in the work they are doing. In the movie camp, they have been working on [...]

Talking about Student Collaboration on TTT

The second webcast of Teachers Teaching Teachers that focused on chapter authors from my book, Teaching the New Writing, has been posted by Paul Allison (Thanks, Paul!). This episode had us discussing the concept of collaboration in a writing classroom that integrates technology. You can also view the very active chat room that was underway during [...]

Making Monday Music

Here is another installment of my series of webcomics about my life in music. In this one, I remember the excitement of getting my first saxophone. It was something that set me off on a lifetime of music, really, and although I don’t have that saxophone anymore, I still carry it with me in my [...]

Stopmotion, the old fashioned way

I am going to have kids work on index card flipbooks tomorrow to create stopmotion the old-fashioned way. I gave it a try this afternoon. It’s difficult to video it! A Musical Acrobat: flipbook from Mr. Hodgson on Vimeo. Peace (in slow mo), Kevin Authored by dogtrax. Hosted by Edublogs. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fdogtrax.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F07%2F05%2Fstopmotion-the-old-fashioned-way%2F'; addthis_title [...]