In-Situ Adventures!

October 12th, 2025

For this week’s blog post I decided to post about my in-situ experience at the elementary school!

We, as the teachers, had the opportunity to go into a grade 3 classroom and work with the students and make stop-motion videos!

Other than doing this once in our EDCI 336 classroom, I had never done this before, so it was still a learning experience for me.

I think the students loved it and had such a good time working with one another, collaborating ideas.

Stop Motion Studio

The app we used to make our stop motion videos was the app called Stop Motion Studio, and the students also had previous experience using it on their own, so a lot of it they spent teaching me!

Current School Technology

From the short walk I experienced going from the staff room to the classroom I did peek into most of the classes we passed and noticed that most of them, if not all of them had at least 1 computer (some had 2), a Smartboard, and speakers. I think this is relatively normal and standardized in classrooms now, but when I was in elementary specifically, we did not have this. We had the classic chalk board, and if you were in the lucky classroom, you got the whiteboard. We had no technology in our classes at all, unless it was a lucky day and the teacher brought out the TV on a desk!

Ours looked like this:

Image by DIgIphoto on IStock

I think the class may have been a bit unorganized only because they had a TTOC, and other visitors, so they were overall very excited. But maybe if the teachers (us) had spent a little more time focusing on classroom management, it could have been a bit quieter, and less chaotic in the classroom.

Overall, I think the students had an extremely fun time, I think they enjoyed being able to be creative and use their own ideas in their stop motion videos, and they all worked really well together! I think we as future teachers also did an amazing job considering for some people this may have been their first time in a classroom environment!

Down below I added the video the group of students I worked with made!

Thanks blog!