animation+in+education

Animation in Education
Presenter: Jose Martinez - Media Arts and Yearbook Teacher at CWDHS Twitter - @chilebeans @http://mrmartinez.ca

At this Minds on Media session, you will get a chance to play with animation. Animation is great for summatives, culminating activities and for having fun! Drop on by and make inanimate objects move, make yourself fly and produce fantastic media projects. It is easy, I swear.

I'm a big fan of cut out animation, similar to Monty Python great, Terry Gilliam and a really big fan of Lee Lefever's Common Craft videos, like the Twitter one.

Why Animation in Education? - get to use an iPad and try out the great NFB app PixStop - take some photographs and see how they turn up in iMovie - Make some paper cut outs and watch them in action.

Student Examples
1) This is a cutout animation done by my media arts students. They used a digital camera, iMovie and some paper cut outs. media type="youtube" key="jNaftsfXcfQ" height="315" width="560" 2) Culminating activity with stop motion, cut out animation, live stop motion and Flash. media type="youtube" key="P_4hKyOwyYQ" height="315" width="560" 3) Flash animation, done using Flash CS4, OSAPAC licensed software. media type="youtube" key="E0oMpsY_zLw" height="315" width="560"

2) Grade 4 health commercial with green screen feature https://voicethread.com/share/2638302/

3) Stop animation using Frames 4 https://voicethread.com/share/2638302/