Last year, the Ripple Effect and Huzzah joined forces to dance our way into the holiday season. We’re all set to begin practicing our dancing moves once again and of course all of our readers are invited…
Now, we need to clarify this isn’t a competition. And if you’ve just turned to your friends and quietly ordered them to “Run. Run away fast.” because you think we’re asking you to dance, then just hold tight for a minute. We are not going to be the ones dancing at all (although dancing in class is fun … I love when that happens).
This dance off involves Pivot Animation. Specifically, this means you will be creating a Christmas or Winter break dancing routine using this program. But why dancing you may ask? Well, we only have 2 weeks of school left before Winter Break, and we know schools in Australia and New Zealand are just about to finish their year. Doesn’t that make you feel like dancing? C’mon readers time to “bust a move”!
To get a better idea of what we’re looking for, here’s Shania’s and Ryan’s dance routines from last year. I love that we have resident experts in the class!
The more dancing the better. I know Mrs. Thompson’s class already has their pivot animations underway. If you’d like to be a part of our 2010 Dance Off, here is the criteria that we’ll be following. Each video segment will include:
A Christmas or seasonal background. For us, seasonal would be Winter because Christmas falls in this season for us, but we know this depends on where you live. (we’re uploading CC Flickr images to our Pivot files)
hint: the program defaults to look for bmp files. Change the drop down menu to .jpg file types
Pivot animations are imported into a movie program (We’re using Windows Movie Maker)
hint: save your pivot animation as a .gif file, not a .piv file
Titles, credits and music are added into the movie program to finish the dance video
Find a techno/electro CC song that has a strong beat (your teacher can help with this one)
Once the movies are made, we’re uploading them into our class Vimeo account so we can post them on our individual blogs (we chose Vimeo because many students can’t view You Tube at school).
When you post your video, please link back to this post. We’re looking forward to exploring everyone’s creative dance moves. Let the dancing begin!
image: 36/365: Danbo breakdances by Chris J. Bowley released under a CC Attribution – Noncommercial – No Derivative Works license
What a fun and motivating activity! I have not experienced the creativity with Pivot Animation, but I am sure to introduce it to our students. Your videos are awesome. Keep collaborating.
Love this idea. I could not get Pivot Animations on my Macs but I found Stykz to use. So my students will be working with this. I will send you our results to see what you think.
Happy Holidays
One day I hope to make a pivot animation to post online. I have already used Micosoft Movie Maker in a technology camp I took last summer. I think pivot animation is awesome!!
Hello,
My name is Megan. I attend St. Marys school in Owatonna MN. I think that it so cool that you can make dance videos. At my school we actually have dance parties that we video tape. Pivot Animation sounds really cool!! Keep making the movies they were very cool.
-Megan
Hello I really enjoyed looking at your blog. This post caought my eye though becasue of the creativity. Your videos were wonderful.How did you animate the stick people? I would really like to be able to do that! I hope you had a splendid holiday season happy blogging!
December 5th, 2010 at 10:32 am
What a fun and motivating activity! I have not experienced the creativity with Pivot Animation, but I am sure to introduce it to our students. Your videos are awesome. Keep collaborating.
December 6th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Hi-I never saw Pivot Animation before. It was very fun to watch. I liked the videos from last year. Good luck with the videos for this year.
John- King’s Ridge Christian School 5th
December 10th, 2010 at 8:42 am
The videos were very good! I think that’s a fun thing to do in class! Hope you have a good Christmas break!
December 10th, 2010 at 9:18 am
Love this idea. I could not get Pivot Animations on my Macs but I found Stykz to use. So my students will be working with this. I will send you our results to see what you think.
Happy Holidays
December 10th, 2010 at 9:27 am
hey my name is Justin and i love to make videos using Pivot
December 10th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Hey! I have never heard of Pivot Animation before. It looks interesting. I might give it a try sometime!
December 11th, 2010 at 8:27 am
That is so cool. I have never seen a pivot animation dance contest like that before. I hope I can make one like that.
December 12th, 2010 at 7:44 am
One day I hope to make a pivot animation to post online. I have already used Micosoft Movie Maker in a technology camp I took last summer. I think pivot animation is awesome!!
December 12th, 2010 at 7:53 am
Hello I have never seen pivot animation dance before that is so cool! Hope I can one day make one.
-Kendall
December 12th, 2010 at 8:59 am
I love the videos. I think it is really cool that you show books.I have never heard of a pivot before but they are fun to watch.
January 17th, 2011 at 9:25 am
Ripple Effect,
That’s a very interesting how the characters dance. I’ve never seen anything like it.
-Michael
January 17th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Hello,
My name is Megan. I attend St. Marys school in Owatonna MN. I think that it so cool that you can make dance videos. At my school we actually have dance parties that we video tape. Pivot Animation sounds really cool!! Keep making the movies they were very cool.
-Megan
January 19th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Hello I really enjoyed looking at your blog. This post caought my eye though becasue of the creativity. Your videos were wonderful.How did you animate the stick people? I would really like to be able to do that! I hope you had a splendid holiday season happy blogging!
January 20th, 2011 at 5:50 am
I think that your blog is great and that those are really good videos. You did a good job.