Inspired by   Wendy Stephens ' post about Lantern Slides, I recently taught my library classes about the origins of film.  Using the book Lights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker by Mara Rockliff, we talked about film as another form of storytelling including magic lantern slides and magic lanterns, nickelodeons, silent films, and Charlie Chaplin.  

    At the end of the lesson, students got to make their own magic lantern slide.  I cut sheet protectors into strips that fit into the magic lantern, and my students then drew their story, remembering that each slide should have three or four different images on it that, sequentially (akin to graphic novel/comic book panels) tell a story.  They then told their story as I projected their slide through the magic lantern.  

      Pre K - 2    3 - 5    Art/Music    Library    Technology    Film    Nickelodeon  

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    This is a fantastic lesson   Soline Holmes !  Love that students did some lantern slide creating.  Also thanks for adding your students reactions in the Teaching Notes of each added piece of media.  Makes understanding the process and the scaffolding very clear.  

      Cheryl Davis  Thanks for the reminder that we can help out our fellow educators by adding information about the teaching process, as well as student reactions, to the Teaching Notes, as   Soline Holmes  did in this excellent storytelling album. I love being able to witness a real library or classroom experience, even if it must be from a distance.  

    This was such a delight to read about   Soline Holmes  -- I love that you made the lantern slide projector "workable" for your students. Very creative and thoughtful stuff.

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