They did research, wrote original skits and created props and backgrounds. I love animation, and wanted them to play around with Stop Motion animation. Some of them used objects in my class or themselves to get used to the app.
The students could then edit and enhance their films with the iMovie app. I wanted each student in the group to add their own version or cut to the film, so they uploaded the video to a shared folder in Dropbox, and then downloaded the video to their own iPad.
Some of the students were just immersed with making their own music in the Garageband app, which could then be imported into their iMovie project. Whereas other students were content with the basic songs that came on the iPad.
This blog post features nearly every film that my 7th graders created.Some of them ran out of time to make music/titles, so I made a video of those and posted it to You Tube
After the students learned the basics of contour sketches and color schemes, they did a bit more advanced work than their hand by taking a photo of one of their classmates, or downloading a public domain photo
My Media Arts students get to make too much traditional art, so it was fun getting back into artistic concepts such as color and line. You can see some of my previous posts that utilized Color in the Classroom
7th graders took a photo of their hand with Drawcast. See some of my other posts that we used Drawcast to make art. They then did a contour sketch of their hand using the foreground layer. Once they had a good outline, they painted the midground with the appropiate color scheme with complementary colors
They then arranged all of the edited photos into Pages along with a caption for what was going on. Here are the PDF's and if you scroll down lower you will see the instructions I made up. These are just a few of the most colorful pages I saved in PDF's, every student saved their file as a Pages document to be inserted into an iBook in the near future.
If you scroll down to the bottom of this post, you can find out how to do this with your class and the rubric to grade it with