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As teachers we have the power to teach our students in an environment which enables them to develop knowledge, interest and a greater confidence. Fairytale Flip is an exciting and innovative activity that brings students’ classroom work to life with the use of modern day technology. This engaging activity can also be redesigned and modified to communicate an educational message. This activity seeks to further develop students’ organisation and planning skills, teamwork attributes, reading and writing as well as developing a sound knowledge of different technologies.

The literacy curriculum is constantly changing due to digital practices incorporating new metalanguages to describe digital and multimodal texts. Multimodal text consists of linguistic, visual, audio, gestural and spatial aspects. With incorporating multimodal texts in this activity, children have the opportunity interpret, reflect on and create an increasingly broad repertoire of spoken and written multimodal texts. This activity is fun and creative and should have your students engaged, motivated and working as a team. (Mills, k. 2011)

Some changes that could be made to this activity would be to replace clay with lego figures and pieces, plastic animals, cardboard figures etc...


 * ====TIME ==== || ====WEEKS ==== || ====TASK ==== ||
 * ====1.5 hours ==== || ====One ==== || ====In the lead up to this activity it would be recommended to view parts of Claymation movies for example; Wallace and Grommit, Chicken Run or the newly released movie ‘Pirates’. ==== ||
 * ====1.5 hours ==== || ====Two ==== || ====Students are paired up and required to decide on a fairytale they are going to ‘flip’ or retell in their own words. ====

Students brainstorm ideas and construct a storyboard to plan their ‘Fairytale flip’. Illustrations only need to be simple.
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 * ====1.5 hours ==== || ====Three ==== || ====One student is to create the backdrop through using paint, cardboard, material etc. While the other student is to model the characters through the use of clay or other props. ==== ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1.5 hours ==== || ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Four ==== || ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The groups are required to put their characters and backdrop together. Taking approximately 130 photos to create a 3 minute movie. They then download their photos onto the computer and save their images into My pictures. ==== ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1.5 hours ==== || ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Five ==== || ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Insert their pictures into a blank PowerPoint and fit them to size. Add their Title and the text they created in their storyboard to the slides. Then turn the animation into a movie, it may take a couple of runs to get the timing right. ==== ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1.5 hours ==== || ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Six ==== || ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Add sound effects and check the editing. Consider adding credits at the end for voices, characters, music, producers etc. ==== ||

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">References
====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mills, K. (2011). ‘Now I know their secrets’: Kineikonic texts in the literacy classroom. [Journal Article]. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy,, 34(1), 24-27. ====