I've been posting some articles and lessons about teaching animationwith elementary school students.

• Analyzing Animation Clips with Students discusses how to use animated gifs (like the one above) to help students analyze movement.
• Animated Name Tag Lesson Plan talks about how to help your students make animated movies like this:

Making Visual Narratives: Animated Name Tag Lesson Example from Grant Thomas on Vimeo.

On Friday, I will post a helpful worksheet I use when I teach Shaun Tan's graphic novel, the Arrival.

I never know what to do with the bottom half of my character designs.  I'm not sure if striped pants was a good idea. . .

I tried to make another abstract sonnet.  I made two "quatrains" and ended up liking the second one, but not the first.  Then the hustle and bustle of life set in and I never returned to the comic.  So it ended up being more like two variations on a theme.  Eventually, I think I'll return to the second "quatrain" and make comic more in its style.

Here's a little movie I whipped up for the behavior program at my school.