Week Five Animation

During this class we made a digital cartoon video, this was great because it incorperates literacy with ICT. The amount of creative input is copious. Children can write whatever dialogue they want, with many backrgounds and many characters. The website is:
www.dfilm.com/live/mm.html

Here is an example of a video I created:




Another great site to use was http://www.buildyourwildself.com/ here we got to create a character like the fold up games that used to be played when we were young, with different animal-human combinations, hybriding everything till it becomes one silly image on a piece of paper. However, in this case, it is via ICT and the image pops up on screen. It is quietly funny and will have children in stitches for some time. It's not just fun and games though, there is a purpose. The site also gives a name of the creation and an individual description of all the things that have been included.

Click onto this site and have a look: http://www.reasonablyclever.com/?page_id=29



The next little game we had a look at was reasonably clever, I personally think it's reasonably good. It didn't blow me away and I found that it wasn't as user friendly. The easiest thing to do was make yourself with lego, I feel, children may become disengaged with this quickly, hey, I could be wrong though, I usually never am, kidding. It's most likely my luddite self coming out, "someone please show me, with flash cards, how do I navigate around this site." It could possibly be that the site is useful, but I can't find how, I think, somehow, you can make comics too, that would be cool.

HELLO!! http://www.toondoo.com/Home.toon, talk about making comic strips, here's a site that's a blast. For the kids. Maybe myself. Maybe. To start with, the website is user-friendly and free. There are heaps of characters to choose from, the dialogue boxes can be dragged all over the screen to be placed for convenience. So much is included you can give the characters food for instance. The backgrounds are colourful and interesting to look at, this site is a great learning experience. It's so politically correct, that at the beginning, when signing up your asked if you would like the "Safe and Secure" Toondoo. This is great and hopefully repels unnecessary images or wording. You can integrate English through comic strip dialogue with ICT and Creativity and Design. This site is a sight. Check it out.

I thoroughly enjoyed this one, it screams guest speaker without having to pay for them to come to your classroom. The beauty of ICT. Ahh. http://www.abc.net.au/rollercoaster/rollermache/ coasting through you will immediately notice that it is insightful, there is a demonstration, specifically on how to actually make a claymation video, move, photo, move, photo, move, photo, hard work but the end result, wow, it's fun, children will love to do this, it's stimulating and really hands on. It will take a bit of planning which is really good for understanding foundations and the activity can be done in small groups, on your own or as a whole class activity. There is much more on this site but it will be lengthy to go on and on about it, probably better to have a look yourself.