5 Great Sites for Student Animation. Online animation is one of the most exciting advances in education technology, allowing students the opportunity to be endlessly creative in designing their own comic strips, movies and more. It’s a fantastic way to liven up the classroom and is guaranteed to be a big hit with young and older students alike, due to the great range of websites available and their ability to both cater to simplicity and accommodate more complex creations. With the advent of this plethora of great new sites, art and drawing are no longer only for the art class – they can be brought to bear on almost any subject and can be particularly useful for lightening otherwise dry topic material. You can make a cartoon or an animation out of any topic, from creating your own animated version of a Shakespeare play to a virtual model of ionic and covalent chemical bonding!
Best of all, the excitement of creating their own project is guaranteed to animate (sorry couldn’t resist!) 1. GoAnimate 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Cool Tool - ClipConverter by @brentcoley. How to Pronounce Synecdoche. A Quick Start Guide for Using YouTube's Editing Tools. 18+ Videos Suggested for Back to School Faculty Meetings and other educational audiences. This post could be almost infinite: there is most certainly an extraordinary array of options for videos which expand educators’ understandings and inspire advances in 21st century learning. But curation is about choice and selection, and while I know I will leave out many, I thought I’d offer up a set of 15 of my favorites for your consideration for video screening at at back-to-school or beginning-of-the-year faculty meetings (and/or parent and board meetings). I’ve starred those that might also serve as useful and engaging videos to share with students at back to school or other assemblies.
I am sure every reader will have their own opinions about the videos I’ve left off this list, and please: add them below using the comment box, or, post yourself your own set and share the link from this post to your own. 21st century learning generally: 1. 1b. 2. 3. 4. 5. . * 5b. 6. 6b. 7. . * 8. Innovation * 9. . * 9b. . * 10. . * 11. Project-Based Learning 12. What PBL Isn’t. What PBL Is. 13. . * 14. 15. 16. Box Animation. SECRET GARDEN - contemporary art in the baroque garden. Thoughts and Drawings. Mario Borza. Mr and Mrs. Drawing. Susan Anderson. TWINS. Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes. Time. Bubble Gum.
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