Download - Educational Animation Digital Oasis 2010
Educational AnimationDigital Oasis
2010
NPST 2: Use teaching strategies and resources to engage students in effective learning.
فاعل تعلم في الطلبة تشرك التي مصادره و التعليم طرائق توظيف
Science Education Animation Lessons at Omar bin Khitab Preparatory School
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.
Do Animations Make Learning Faster?
Well-designed animations 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.
Three Kinds of Educational Animation
Simple Educational Animation
User Controlled Animation:Dissection, Graphs, Java Interactive Animations
User Created Animation
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.
Resources
Heathers Animations – GIF animations (Teachers only - Site ads are NOT for students)•http://www.heathersanimations.com/school1.html•http://www.heathersanimations.com/science1.html
Yahoo Animation Collections - http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Comics_and_Animation/Animation/Computer_Animation/ :
53 Animated GIF collectionsDownloads and Short FilmsMotion CaptureFlipbook Galleries
Popular PowerPoint Animations – TEACHER INTERACTIVE?
What Class is this organism in?
Mammalia
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
Interactive Simulations from PhET
Science Pirates: The Curse of Brownbeard
Science Pirates: The Curse of Brownbeard is a 3D scientific exploration game.
http://www.sciencepirates.org/index.html
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
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 Simulati
on and Animal Advocacy (Society and Animals)
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).
Best Java animation site is at http://www.cut-the-knot.org/index.shtml
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.
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/
Interactive Animation for All Subjects
BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages –students: fee-based and free resources.
User Created Animations
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.
Simple Creations: The Fodey Generator
Ninja Text Generator
Wizard Text Generator
Talking Flowers Talking Owls Talking Squirrels Talking Tomatoes
Student Made Flip Book Video(click picture)
Using FlipBook software, it took the student 3 weeks of drawing to make this for a student project.
Flip Book Animation
How many pictures are need to draw the cat and make it move?
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.
Stop Motion: Animation for Educationwww.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.
Stop Motion Animation
Simple Story Board
Long Shot
Puts the subject in their environment
Mid Shot
Emphasis is on the subject’s
actions and word.
Close Up
Emphasise Emotion,
information, action and reaction.
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.“
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.
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.”
More Animation Creation Sources
Animation Creation Sources
Animoto makes it possible to quickly create a video using
still images, music, and text. If you can make a slideshow
presentation, you can make a video using Animoto.
Animoto's free service limits you to 30 second videos.
Masher is a great, free, tool for creating video mash-ups.
Masher offers a large collection of video clips from
the BBC's Motion Gallery and Rip Curl video. You can add
your own images, video clips. Masher also gives you the
option to insert text throughout your videos
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.)
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?'
Animation Creation Resources
Memoov is a free service for creating animated videos. Without downloading any software or having any special skills, Memoov allows users to create animated videos up to five minutes in length. Creating an animated video with Memoov can be as simple as selecting a setting image(s), selecting a character or characters, and adding dialogue.
On the Zimmer Twins site, students do not need to have any drawing skills in order to create a story as all elements are added to the video through a simple drag and drop interface.
This site is dedicated to making stop motion animation with LEGO bricks and figures.http://www.brickfilms.com/index.php
Screen Captures
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.
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