The one doing the creating is the one who is learning!
As creators ourselves (especially of GIFs, videos, comics, and infocomics), we know how much learning goes on for the one doing the creating. We are advocates for involving students as creators to prepare them for a rapidly changing future where creativity, problem solving, and innovation will be indispensable.
On this page, you will find some ideas and tips for involving students as creators of videos, GIFs, and misconception comics. But these are only just a few ways students can create!
We love to connect with others who want to see creations that make it out of the classroom doors! Our social media buttons are below.
As creators ourselves (especially of GIFs, videos, comics, and infocomics), we know how much learning goes on for the one doing the creating. We are advocates for involving students as creators to prepare them for a rapidly changing future where creativity, problem solving, and innovation will be indispensable.
On this page, you will find some ideas and tips for involving students as creators of videos, GIFs, and misconception comics. But these are only just a few ways students can create!
We love to connect with others who want to see creations that make it out of the classroom doors! Our social media buttons are below.
Student Video Creation
Student GIF Creation
Student Misconception Comics
Student Video Creation
Teacher-Student Collaborative Video CreationWe outline 5 steps for our video creation in a collaborative teacher-student style. We are not affiliated with tools we list in these steps. If we mention them, we liked their ability to work with student video creation, and they were free at the time we used them.
Be sure to read terms of use and privacy policy for any tool you use in your classroom. |
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Student GIF Creation
Student GIF CreationAs an alternative, you can actually use images that you created and turn them into a GIF! GIFs are frequent on social media, but they can be great visual representations of educational content! Check out the GIFs that we make as an example- you will find they are powerful for animating a science process or bringing vocab to life!
GIFs can be created by students even if technology is limited---students can draw the images by hand and a smartphone can be used to take pictures of the images to make them digital. All you have to do with your images is put them in a free GIF maker (such as GIF Toaster for iPhone/iPads or gifmaker.me as a web based tool). Here are some of our tips for involving students as educational GIF creators! |
Petunia demonstrated the creation of this quick GIF in <5 minutes in one of our trainings.
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Student Misconception Comics
Student Misconception ComicsUse data to determine misconceptions and- instead of reteaching- consider asking for the help of students to create a comic to address the misconception! Students know how to make content relevant to their peers, and they have fantastic ideas on addressing misconceptions. This also gives the creating a significant purpose: it's helping their peers!
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Things to Keep in Mind When Creating...
It's true. Every expert was once a beginner.In a rare video for us, Petunia explains why every expert starts as a beginner. Including her with her ability to draw.
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Creating: You get better by practice. You can't grow and get better without practice. We encourage you to look at our old original homeostasis video (from 2013). Petunia had no drawing background, and Pinky recorded off her cell phone with no plan written out.
Compare that old video with our more recent homeostasis video. We only improved with practice and a desire to grow ourselves. We are still learning. Keep at it. The world needs more creators after all. 
Click button above to see our milestones.
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We continue to look for ways to support student creation. Each topic in our new Unlectured Series includes ideas for involving students as creators with the content.
