ALA Day, Tuesday Oct. 12

Today Gabe, Karie, and I went to the ALA, with the objectives being the same as Thursday of last week. THe students were to create stop motion facial transformations, as their classmates had done, with the film itself lasting 30 seconds. All the students took to the activity fairly well, with the exception of one or two. There were a couple of kids who were reluctant at first to put the paint on their faces, but Karie was an incredible asset to the team, bringing a little face painting expertise and really making a couple of the kids look good. THe filmmaking process was an interesting learning experience for most of the kids, because only two of yesterday's group had actually done the summer workshop. Gabe was a great help getting some technical difficulties taken care of and he helped to paint and film one particular group of kids. Watching them work, and trying to give hints as to the filmmaking process proves more of a challenge today i think because the thursday group seemed to take to this activity with more of an interest. Both groups picked up on the techniques of the stop motion process fairly quickly, and it will be interesting to see how their experiences carry over to Wednesday, when we experiment with this on the floor, as well as the next cycle of material that will be focused on storytelling involving technology.