WMWP partnered up with Smith Vocational Agricultural High School again this summer to offer a Claymation Movie Camp. There were 15 middle school students working with stop-motion animation over the course of four days and they created numerous movies.
You can view the Claymation Camp Blog to view some of the projects.
Two of the teachers — [...]
The new Western Massachusetts Writing Project Technology Team held its first major event — Technology Across the Curriculum — that drew about 25 teachers to the Norris Elementary School in Southampton on a Saturday morning in May.
The event featured workshops on social networking, podcasting and digital storytelling, and the featured speaker was Mike Flynn, the [...]
We invite you to consider joining the WMWP Technology Team for a morning of workshops centered around the use of technology and writing across the various content areas, including math, science and social studies.
You can download the Technology Across the Curriculum flier with this link and the flier includes a registration form.
Or you can use [...]
WMWP Technology Liaison Kevin Hodgson delivered a keynote address to the Hudson Valley Writing Project around the topic of using the tools of the Web 2.0 world in the classroom. He was invited as part of a continuing collaborative partnership between the two sites (which worked together this summer during the Summer Institute, too).
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This summer, the Western Massachusetts Writing Project has partnered up with Smith Vocational Agricultural High School to offer a Claymation Animation Movie Camp for middle school students.
WMWP Technology Liaison Kevin Hodgson and Smith Voke Curriculum Coordinator Leslie Skantz-Hodgson are teaching two, four-day sessions in which students are investigating various software tools for creating animation movies.
Here [...]
Do you have students who could benefit from a technology-infused summer camp?
The Western Massachusetts Writing Project is making a foray into the world of digital storytelling this summer by offering a claymation movie camp in conjunction with Smith Vocational Agricultural High School.
The camp is geared towards students entering grades five through eight.
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