Evaluation Animation

What is it?

A simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures, or frames in 2D or 3D Cartoons on television is one example of animation. Animation on computers is one of the chief ingredients of multimedia presentations. There are many Software applications that enable you to create animations that you can display on a computer monitor.



There is a difference between animation and video though, video takes continuous motion and breaks it up into discrete frames, animation starts with independent pictures and puts them together to form the illusion of continuous motion.


What are the advantages and disadvantages of Animation?

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/animation.html

Animation!

2simple2animate

What is it?
2simple 2 animate is an application from 2simple.com enabling children of all ages to create thier own animations. The application enables the user to draw images, capture images from a webcam or scan images to the computer, additionally it encourages creativity within the user and can be used as a cross-curricular resource. For example, An English lesson, whereby the subject is story writing, the pupils could produce a story and then turned into an animation, deepening understanding and consolidating learning. There is a simple and an advanced level.

Experience with 2simple2animate
I voluntered in 2010/2011 in a year 5 class of a local primary school, during one lesson they were using 2simple 2 animate, they worked in groups of 3/4, they used plasticine to create characters and used the webcam to capture pictures, they moved the plastacine figures to create a story. They all really enjoyed using it and the had a lot of fun, but most importantly how enthusiastic and creative they were when they were using it.

Lesson Plans example for a Year 2 class - Lesson Plan Year 2

This is my first animation- A CatchPhrase, can you guess?

 

I had a lot of fun making my animations and I think that a lot of pupils of all ages would too. It is an easy-to-use application and I embedded the animations on to my blog through TinyPic.



     

And this is my second animation- '999'