{"id":4684,"date":"2015-01-28T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2016-02-28T14:17:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T18:17:23","slug":"making-time-lapse-videos-with-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/making-time-lapse-videos-with-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Making time lapse videos with students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using Lapse It for Android<\/h2>\n

\"making<\/a>Students at Saint Francis Xavier school in Winooski used Lapse It<\/a>, a time lapse camera app to demonstrate the mitosis process.\u00a0 Mary Ellen Varhue, the middle level science teacher at SFX explained, \u201cin the past this would have been a poster project.\u00a0 Using Lapse It gave students a much better appreciation of the dynamic nature of mitosis as a process that moves from one phase to the next smoothly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are some of her thoughts on student learning, the app, and ideas for next time.<\/p>\n

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Student Learning<\/h3>\n

\u201cStudent engagement was very high for this assignment. Working in groups of three, there was a high degree of collaboration and creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The App<\/h3>\n

The free version of Lapse It<\/a> (which they used with Android devices) does not let you save work over several shoots.\u00a0 Therefore, students had to create the process in one shoot. \u00a0\u201cWe were all on a learning curve with the app, so I didn\u2019t go too crazy with insisting on perfection!\u201d<\/p>\n

Next Time<\/h3>\n

This was the first time using the app, so next time Mrs. Varhue plans on setting a minimum of 25-30 pictures to get a more detailed animation.\u00a0 She also suggested blocking off four class periods for this type of activity:<\/p>\n