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Educational Animation Digital Oasis 2010

Educational Animation Digital Oasis 2010. Science Education Animation Lessons at Omar bin Khitab Preparatory School. Educational Animations. Educational animations are animations produced for the purpose of learning.

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Educational Animation Digital Oasis 2010

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  1. Educational AnimationDigital Oasis2010

  2. Science Education Animation Lessons at Omar bin Khitab Preparatory School

  3. Educational Animations • Educational animations are animations produced for the purpose of learning. • The popularity of using animations to help learners understand and remember information has grown with changes in media technology.

  4. Do Animations Make Learning Faster? • Well-designedanimations may help students learn faster and easier. • They are also excellent aid to teachers when it comes to explaining difficult subjects. • The difficulty may arise due to the involvement of mathematics or imagination.

  5. Three Kinds of Educational Animation

  6. Educational Effectiveness • Why is it that animations sometimes lack educational effectiveness? • Animation problems can cause misunderstanding. • PROBLEM: Animation is TOO fast. • PROBLEM: No written explanation. • Always check for understanding.

  7. Resources

  8. Popular PowerPoint Animations – TEACHER INTERACTIVE? What Class is this organism in? Mammalia

  9. User Control of Animation • Another suggestion for addressing such problems is to provide user control for the learner over how the animation plays. • Vary aspects such as: • playing speed • direction, • Labels • audio commentary. PhET screenshot: http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Energy_Skate_Park

  10. Interactive Simulations from PhET

  11. Science Pirates: The Curse of Brownbeard • Science Pirates: The Curse of Brownbeardis a 3D scientific exploration game. • http://www.sciencepirates.org/index.html

  12. Interactive Animation: Science • Eye Dissection: click on picture • Fish Dissection: http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00548/Dissection.html • Frog Dissection: http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/index.html (fee based ) • Fetal Pig Dissection: http://www.whitman.edu/biology/vpd/main.html

  13. Is Computer-Simulated Dissection a Better Teaching Tool than Real Animal Dissection? • Undecided! • Current debates: • Simulation Nation: The Promise of Virtual Learning Activities (Edutopia.org) • Are Virtual Dissections an Acceptable Substitute for Real Animal Specimens? (National Education Association) • Hands-on Anatomy Lessons Expanding (Canton Repository, Ohio) • Science with a Bite (Daily Herald, Austin, Minnesota) • Frog and Cyberfrog Are Friends: Dissection Simulation and Animal Advocacy (Society and Animals)

  14. Interactive Math • Many forms of animation are possible in Java. • Java animations create some kind of motion on the screen by drawing successive frames at a relatively high speed (usually about 10-20 times per second).

  15. Math Live • Math Live presents animated stories that teach mathematics lessons. • 23 lessons for elementary school and middle school students. • Divided into four categories; Number, Patterns and Relations, Shape and Space, Statistics and Probability.

  16. Interactive Math: Lure of the Labyrinth • A mathematics game designed for middle-school pre-algebra students. • The protagonist, a kid who’s just had his beloved pet abducted by Bigfoot and taken to a subterranean food mill, has to solve a series of math-based puzzles to get him back. • The puzzles focus on proportions, ratios, fractions, and variables. • The educators guide gives you sound advice on how to guide your class. http://labyrinth.thinkport.org/www/

  17. Interactive Animation for All Subjects BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages –students: fee-based and free resources.

  18. User Created Animations

  19. Highest Cognitive Level: Create Animation! • How to create a Java applet video. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGviqa59FC0 • This video will show you how to do basic animation in Java.

  20. Simple Creations: The Fodey Generator • Ninja Text Generator • Wizard Text Generator • Talking Flowers • Talking Owls • Talking Squirrels • Talking Tomatoes

  21. Using FlipBook software, it took the student 3 weeks of drawing to make this for a student project. Student Made Flip Book Video(click picture)

  22. Flip Book Animation How many pictures are need to draw the cat and make it move?

  23. Flipbook Animation • Many free animation program are available online. www.digicelinc.com/ (most professional) and www.benettonplay.com/toys/flipbookdeluxe/ (easy to use -will not open at school) • Each picture should be the same height and width. • Number the image files (for example: 01.gif, 02.gif, 03.gif, and so forth) and save them as gif images. • Each picture will be a separate frame in your animation. • Once you have all of them in the order you like, export the layers as a gif animation. • You can also set the length of time each frame will be displayed. • On the computer, you don’t need many frames to make your image “move.” Sometimes just two or three different drawings are enough to suggest motion.

  24. Stop Motion: Animation for Education www.animationforeducation.co.uk • Model making session where each pupil makes a model from Plasticine. • Story board a simple story involving each of their characters. • Shoot film in groups with one group per computer and camera. • The pupils will produce films lasting 30- 45 seconds each.

  25. Stop Motion Animation

  26. Xtranormal: http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-science-math-lessons Teacher: "One student, who was typically an unmotivated writer, spent hours writing and rewriting her script so it would work well in the Xtranormal video.“ • "One way we can use technology is by using Xtranormal. You get an Xtranormal account, and you can make movies by picking a character (or sometimes two if you want), a setting, and a voice for the character. • You can teach any subject with Xtranormal videos by having your character define vocabulary words or describe concepts. If you want the character to say something, all you have to do is type the script in the script box. When you press Action, he or she will say everything you wrote.“

  27. Xtranormal’s Text-to-movie • Create your own animated flick with a few simple steps. • You could create a short animation giving instructions or a sub plan for a day you will be absent. • Your students can use it to demonstrate a concept or even teach a concept to another class or grade level.

  28. yutubemedia • “In this video I show you how to Make A Customized 3D Computer Cartoon character without having to fuss with time lines and all that stuff. It's a very simple way to make a cool animation.”

  29. More Animation Creation Sources

  30. Animation Creation Sources

  31. Voki – Design a Talking Avatar • http://www.voki.com/create.php • Credit: Voki • A Voki is a mini-avatar users can create online for free. They can embed their Voki into Web pages or blogs, and write or record the text it speaks. (For a quick look at Vokis in education, go to Sue Waters's blog.)

  32. Vokis take about 5 minutes to create. • Voices and accents can be selected if you decide to type your message in via the computer keyboard. • You can record your own voice via mobile phone or microphone. • Teacher Example:I would use a Voki to explain the problems to my class. For example, if I wanted them to guess a number I was thinking of, my Voki would give clues such as 'I am a multiple of three. I am an even number, and my ones place times two equals my tens place. Who am I?'

  33. Animation Creation Resources

  34. Screen Captures

  35. Snag It for Images & ScreenToaster for Videos • Snagit Screen Capture Software • Create an image of all or part of what you see you see on your computer monitor • Annotation varieties like arrows, speech bubbles, fancy edge effects and more. • ScreenToaster • Features great video quality. • The ability to add captions • Plus it lets you easily upload your video to YouTube, or download it in a variety of formats for viewing or editing later.

  36. Citations & Resources • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_animatio • PowerPoint Heaven - The Power to Animate Contains tutorials on creating animations for PowerPoint Presentations. • http://phet.colorado.edu/get_phet/full_install.php • http://www.nga.gov/kids/stella/activityflip.htm#sequence • http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/02/create-simple-animated-movies-with.html • http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/11/six-easy-ways-for-students-to-create.html • http://www.slideshare.net/kiranb/effective-use-of-animation-in-education-advertising-and-entertainment • http://instructify.com/2009/01/15/froguts-frog-dissection-online/ • Biology Animations • http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animation.html

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