Monday, April 12, 2010
Collaborative Art
There are so many ways to turn about any lesson or project into a collaborative piece. I wrote a lesson plan last semester about making puppets for a stop motion movie. The students had to create their own puppets, but write a script and film a short movie together. The students needed to work especially close together on this project because it involved so many aspects such as how the characters would interact, writing the script and designing a set, then shooting the film and adding voice overs or music, then editing. Obviously this would be an advanced project, but it could be simplified to what we were doing with the students at the junior high and and making puppets. They could put on a play and film it in its simplicity after writing a script and making a backdrop.
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This lesson sounds like a lot of fun! Very creative and it would tie in well with English classes with writing the puppet screenplay. Good job!
ReplyDeleteI agree, the lesson does sound like fun, and would also require a lot of team work. I think something would need to be done to make sure the responsibilities are shared amoung students. Maybe requiring each student to be assigned a part of it and recording who does what. I also wonder how group projects like this would be graded.
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