After reading a survival themed novel, my 8th graders were challenged to create an RSA video answering the following question: What does it take to survive? What are the skills necessary and how can we learn these skills through literature?
In the past, students have struggled with keeping their cameras stable for the stop-motion animation part of this project. This year, having tripods available solved this problem. Students were also able to record their audio tracks with the snowball microphones. These devices helped improve the quality of student videos tenfold.
However, in filming for this project, students who used their own phones to film were more successful than those who used the iPads. This made us realize that our program needs adapters for the iPads to use them with the tripods. We are now asking parents to donate iPad Tripod Mount Adapters (about $10 a piece on Amazon). Fingers crossed that we are able to get enough to solve this problem.
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