"Over a decade ago, cognitive scientists John D. Bransford and Daniel J. Schwartz asked fifth graders and college students to create a recovery plan to to protect bald eagles from extinction. Surprisingly, the two groups came up with plans of similar quality (although the college students had better spelling skills)."
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Beth Dichter
Richard Byrne offers up five aps and sites that students may use to create animations. He provides an overview of:
* Stop Frame Animator
* SketchStar
* Animation Deck (an iPad app available in a lite or paid version)
* Draw Island
* Wideo.co
If you are considering having your students create videos for a project this post will allow you to quickly find a tool or two for them to use...and make sure that you check the tool on the computers in your school. It is not unusual for some of these tools to be blocked by filters.