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**__Unit 10 - Digital Animation__ (WC, SR, QR, TC, CA&R, IL)**

Digital animation software and applications have advanced so much so in recent years that it is relatively easy to create animation within the classroom with the right tools. Having students create digital animation gives them tools to animate as a form of visualization and as a mode of communication which uses visual thinking. Animation is a sequence of images that tells a story visually, serving not only as an art making tool helping students interpret the world, but as a vehicle for expanding students’ imagination in addressing their own knowledge and experience.

For this assignment, you are going to create a very basic animation along the lines of a ball bouncing, kite flying, car moving, stick-man running, bird flying, book closing, washing machine tumbling clothes, rocket launching, river flowing, tea kettle steaming, etc. using PowerPoint or HyperSudio (7 points). Your second animation will come from any one of the web-based software choices shown below. Choose anything appropriate for the classroom in your content area (if possible) (8 points).

You may use any of a number of tools to create your digital animation.

**Web-based:**
 * **FlipBook -** []
 * **FluxTime** - http://www.fluxtime.com/animate.php
 * **Kerpoof** - http://www.kerpoof.com/
 * **GoAnimate** – [|http://www.goanimate.com]
 * **Shapeshifter Animation** – []
 * **Dvolver** - [|http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.htm]
 * **Xtranormal** – http://www.xtranormal.com/
 * **Voki** - http://www.voki.com/
 * **Alchemy** - http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy.html - from the textbook

Once you have created your animation, upload it to the classroom wiki or, alternatively, upload a document with the URL (website address) to your self-created animation.

//**Discussion #3:** As a presenter/educator there are many interesting ways to incorporate animation into a lesson. Animation can add a visual understanding that words alone cannot do, but they are time consuming to create. In your viewpoint, at the grade level you teach, is there a benefit to having the students use animations to enhance lessons they create? What might you have students do with animation in your classroom? Think actual learning not busy work. //