A hands-on activity using creative tools to produce media which will be posted to the blog. Our suggested theme of ‘The Future’ will hopefully provide latitude and inspiration for engaging output. Blog comment on tools and potential applications welcomed.

• Group A - ‘Voki’ (Andrew) Lomond – (10 miniBooks)

• Group B - ‘Voicethread’ (Alan) Strathmore - (2 miniBooks)

• Group C - ‘ToonDoo’ (Derek) Lomond - (5 miniBooks)

• Group D - ‘Animation (West Lothian) Blairlogie - (2 miniBooks)

An Introduction to Using Animation in the Classroom

Animation can be a highly motivating and inclusive learning tool in the classroom. It provides a creative and cross curricular approach to learning and sits perfectly within the framework for A Curriculum for Excellence. This session will give a brief introduction to animation using Frames software.

Some useful links

Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online have an excellent section of their website devoted to animation. It contains practical advice for every stage of the process and schools’ completed animation films are all posted here.
http://www.cleo.net.uk/resources/displayframe.php?src=321/consultants_resources/teknical/flashideas/ButtonTemplate2.html

LT Scotland has links to exemplars of animation being used well in schools. Running a search for ‘animation’ will bring up many of them. Here are some that are worth a look.

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/connected/articles/15/ictinpractice/digtalanimation.asp

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/ictineducation/sharingpractice/stirling/kincardine.asp

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/earlyyears/sharingpractice/ict/sanday.asp

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/ictineducation/sharingpractice/stirling/callanderprimaryschool.asp