The week animation came to town

Today we're starting off by looking at a website called Zimmer Twins. You can find it by clicking this linky. Zimmer Twins is a fun, interactive website that allows you to create your own animations. Now, this is a superb tool, and I'm sure we could all imagine so many students being drawn to and engrossed with such an activity. What a tremendous and easy way for students to take story writing, story recounts, journal writing or whatever into an exciting new field using ICT. Here's a still from when I just created a little movie.

As you can see the interface is very easy for students to use, with big clear buttons and tabs. Also, there is an easy-to-follow introductory video provided by the website to help you get started creating your creations.

I really do like the ease with which one could use this application. I have mentioned a couple of times on the blog how concerned I am that there are not as many good internet or general ICT resources that are suitable for lower primary. This animation creation website could be used by most - not all, but mose lower primary students, I could imagine. Alternatively, it is also appropriate for higher levels. I really do like that.

After the Zimmer Twins we moved onto a website called Dfilms - linky. Dfilms is another easy to use animation creation website. The only problem with Dfilms is that I'm not entirely convinced that all the content on the website would be suitable for an under-18 audience - I don't know. However, if we don't consider that, Dfilms would be suitable for a more upper primary audience as it introduces vocabulary such as rendezvous and soliloquoy - while introducing concepts of plot/character/genre, etc..

Here's the animation I made. It's a work of art. I'd be pretty massively surprised if I didn't pick up an Oscar for this gem. Anyways, that's it for this week. Bye!