Publishing

Publishing stop motion videos to a wider audience is an important step in honoring the hard work of students. Hosting an in-class watch party, publishing videos to the school website and other classes, and sharing the videos out to parents are all excellent ways to provide an authentic audience for students. Below are some tips and tricks to streamlining this process.

Exporting Method 1: Exporting videos with AirDrop

If you have an iPhone, an easy way to get Stop Motion projects to your device is to use AirDrop. Watch the video to learn how.

Exporting Method 2: Export to Google Drive app

1) Stop Motion Studio (free and paid): Use the share button to select the "Export Movie" option.

If the students are on a Chromebook, the movie file might be saved directly into their Google Drive. If not, they can add it to Drive from their Downloads.
If students are on an iPad, they will then need to sign in to the Google Drive app, and upload the movie file into their Google Drive. Or, the teacher could choose to sign in to the Google Drive app on all the iPads and upload the movie into a folder in their Drive. (Remember to sign out of Google Drive when you are done when using shared devices.)

Exporting Video from the Stop Motion Studio app to Google Drive

Step 2: Sharing with the teacher

Once students have saved the video to their Google Drive, they can share it with the teacher in a variety of ways:

1) Recommended: Google Classroom

Create an assignment in Google Classroom called "Stop Motion Video" and post it to the Google Classroom
On their Chromebooks, ask students to go to Google Classroom, open the assignment, and use the "+Add or create" button to add their movie from their Google Drive
Students can also post the link to their video in the Stream of Google Classroom so that other students can click on their links.
This will house all of your class' videos in one easy to access place!

2) Directly from Google Drive

On their Chromebooks, ask students to find the video in their Google Drive. Then right click on the file, and select "Share".
Ask students to type in your name in the share field, and share it directly with you.
In your Google Drive, navigate to the "Shared with me" area of your Google Drive to access the student videos.

How to Share Stop Motion Projects in Google Classroom

Publishing to a wider audience

If you would like to share the student videos beyond "the walls of the classroom", there are a few different options:

1) Create a document with the links

In Google Drive, create a Google Doc or Slides and add the links or video files from each student onto the document. Then share the link to that single Slides or Doc to parents, post the link on the website, share it with other classes, etc.
If you have a class website, add the video files directly onto a webpage of your website.
Link the videos off of the school's website.
Have students add the link or upload their project in Flip, Padlet, or Wakelet. Then set it up so that those with the link can view.

Peer Feedback

Glow and Grow Video Feedback

Credit: Stephanie Sumarna

After students share their videos, giving student's a chance to view each other's work and to share their own project is fun and also a chance for reflection.

Peer feedback can be given digitally through Google Classroom, Flip, or Padlet, for example. Students can write comments, or in some cases record video feedback.

Here's a template it you'd prefer your students to give feedback on paper.

In order to give good feedback, students may reflect on the requirements of their projects, as well as provide suggestions, and compliments about their favorite aspects of the video.

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