Animate your Content

Ron Paige Clevleand State CC

Engage Students with the content-they're already engaged with the technology

Created presentation using Fake Movie Poster and Make Beliefs Comix

Animation characters already available you can use for free as long as not using for commercial purposes (take character in pdf and save as jpg)

Get technology in the students' hands

Students are students no matter their age

More students statistically will play an instrucor video welcome than read the announcements

Humor in the beginning (modeling ideas) (intro with character pleading to read announcements)

Welcome to Blended Online Learning video YouTube (PowToon) mission about computer needs

PowToons has educaional templates (free music mission impossible theme) just add in content on a timeline

Very easy to use and have students use--highly recommended in presenter's opinion in their experience with student feedback

Social Learning Theory Frank and Ernest Comic to visualize concept (Self-Effecacy example I think therefore I am...Ernie, Your're Disappearing)

resource: Go Comics, Go Animate a good tool too

Movie Zoo (more complicated but more to manipulate)

Animoto

Educational/Classroom Usage Fair Use

Reduce the overload--Cogniteve Load Theory use stories.  Story is easy to work with and connect with (visual or word oriented) the form

Three types of simple animation
1) Performance Aids (visual cues, charts, tables, organizers)
2) Still Images (diagrams, cartoons, learning agents)
3) Animated sequences (multi-frame story, audio-visual story)

Tools
Screen Capture (bringing it into paint)
Jing

Learning Character used consistantly in class - visual cue with a personal observation (ie Merlin character)

Multi-frame Stories