I'm leading a staff meeting soon on ways to improve literacy without producing pages and pages of writing. I'm going to be looking at two - possibly three - ways of achieving this.
(1) Comic Life - once upon a time available only for the mac - is a simple way to take photos and add graphic comments / speech. For the boys this is something that they'll take to. Here's a short comic about a literacy task on writing instructions...
(2) Moviemaker story telling using photos / audio / transitions and titles. Using the "add title on the selected clip" and selecting a "video inset with news banner title" a short sentence can be added to each image that appears. Increasing the time an image stays on screen means two/three sentences can be shown. Take a look at the example I quickly made below;
(3) There is also stop motion animation - although I'm struggling to find a simple looking program. If worst comes to it, I'll have to use QuickTime Pro to show a sequence of photos made using lego (that favourite for stop motion movies!!)
