How to Use Animation for Student Projects and Engaging Lessons
Animation Comes in Many Forms Using animation tools can help to add engagement, creativity and technological knowledge for students . Animations can also add excitement to your lessons. With plenty of applications for animation, the days of static imagery and boring presentations are long gone. Here are some of the possibilities. Create looping Gifs ABCya Animate or Giphy can be used to make looping animations called gifs. Students could show a process, change over time or movement through a gif. With ABCya Animate, students can create scenes that will play in a short animated video. This site seems most appropriate for elementary and middle school students, however, when I showed this recently to some high school students, they enjoyed creating gifs and with the ability to add your own images this site becomes more attractive. Giphy can be used to upload a series of images to turn into a gif or a paste in the url of a YouTube v...