USING COMICS AND ANIMATIONS TO DEVELOP ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR

STUDENTS GRADE 5-12

IN FIVE MINUTE OF AN ANIMATION YOU CAN KNOW• All techniques of producing a product• All business activities to bring this product to

the market

Let see this animation for teaching entrepreneurial skills as an example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCej5Xi84Lc

YOU CAN USE THIS ANIMATION TO EQUIP STUDENTS DIFFERENT AGES WITH

ENTREPRENEURIAL KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS• Using an animation together with assignments,

games and hands on activities, you can develop entrepreneurial knowledge and skills for students

SOME ASSIGNMENTS+ How the Prince came up with an idea of developing bamboo craft in his

country?

+ what to do to develop a business? (teacher can stop at two episodes of exchanging business experiences of Director with the Prince)

+ Teach about 4 P: place: where is the shop located and why it is located there? How bamboo products are produced and how they look like? How the price of bamboo products is calculated? What strategies are used to promote the products?

+ Use role play to learn about the role of a seller, director, customers, how they communicate to each other, how to receipt customers, etc.

+ Ask students to develop their own business idea and business activities to implement the idea.

+ Take students to the tour to a local company

…For different ages you can have assignments appropriate to their age from obtaining simple knowledge and skills to obtaining all necessary entrepreneurial skills to start up a business (We have assignment books for different ages from grade 5 to 12)

YOU CAN USE THIS ANIMATION TO DEVELOP CREATIVITY

• Ask students to draw bamboo products

by their imagination different from bamboo

products in animation• Ask students to write a story

“ I am an entrepreneur of the bamboo craft”

YOU CAN USE THIS ANIMATION TO DEVELOP OTHER SKILLS

• Art skills: how to make your products look artistic? Using kitting techniques to make a bamboo product to show your parents

• Calculating: estimate price of your new product ; how many products you can buy if you have 300 USD?

• Learning English through subtitles and fill in in the assignment book

OTHER BENEFITS OF ANIMATIONS

• Teachers can use an animation in few minutes to attract students to learn and explore the lesson content

• Use animation in extracurricular time to develop entrepreneurial and other skills

• It connects lessons to extracurricular activities to develop, to expand knowledge and skills for students

BUT ANIMATIONS HAVE limitations

• It can be used where having electricity, computer, but in some remote areas in Vietnam and other developing countries, people still live in dark and isolated spaces

• It cannot show samples of a business plan or tasks to develop a skill.

• Cost money: expensive to be produced

COMICS CAN BE USED TO DEVELOP ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITH MANY ADVANTAGES

• As animations, comics can be used in combination with games, assignments and hands on activities to develop creativity, entrepreneurial skills & other skills

• Without electricity and computer students can use comics to do assignments to develop skills

• Cheaper than making animations• Comics are loved to read if they are developed

creatively & imaginatively• Only one limitation: no sound, no movement, but

maybe solved by 3D and ICT techniques?

Comics go with assignment books for students and guidebooks for teachers & parent to

develop entrepreneurial skills

We develop• two comics of bamboo craft for students: one for students

grade 5 to 8; another for students age 9 to 12• Four assignment books: one for students grade 5-6 to equip

elementary knowledge about business, develop student creativity and other skills. We want to start at this age because in Vietnam, in the remote and poor rural areas, parents did not finish primary schools and they don’t have time to attend training courses. We want through them to transfer knowledge to their parents. At this age students have enough knowledge about sciences to learn a business. Business is an art+ science + humanities + education + finance + leadership and management

Use comics to develop entrepreneurial skills (cont)

• one for students grade 7-8 to develop basic business and other skills;

• one assignment special for students grade 9: many students in Vietnam & in other developing countries leave the school after lower secondary education and start to work to earn money; at this age we want to equip students with enough knowledge and skills to start up a business;

• one for students grade 10-12 to develop a higher level of entrepreneurial skills and knowledge, focus on creative generating business ideas, global business knowledge…

• One for training young adult s to start up a business• Guide books how to use comics, assignment books to develop

entrepreneurial skills for students at different ages

WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOUR SUPPORTS

1) Looking for comic artists: We have drafted contents of comics and assignment books and we need comic artists to draw images for the comics

2) We need a funding for publishing comics, assignment books to deliver free to ethnic minority students

3) We need fund to pilot and train teachers on how to use comics, animations and assignment books to develop entrepreneurial skills for students and young adults

4) We need Seed money for start up business of ethnic and poor rural adults

5) We need Fund to develop more other comics for entrepreneurial skills in agricultural and technology and art fields.

Your supports make entrepreneurial development become easy access for

all students, especially for ethnic minority students in the poor

countries like Vietnam • Please contact me for more detail at :

lieutran5@yahoo.com or iferd.vietnam@gmail.com• Website: iferd.edu.vn; • blog: iferdvn.blogspot.com

Thank you for your interest and helps!