Teaching with Slowmation: Facilitating Student-generated Animations in Various Content Areas
- Places are strictly limited for this workshop.
- Participants should bring their own lap top computer (PC or Mac) and a digital still camera (with downloading cables etc)
“Slowmation” (abbreviated from Slow Animation) is a new teaching approach developed over the last four years in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong. The approach has won two international awards for “technology leadership” in education and is the focus of a current $240,000 Australian Research Council-Discovery Grant for 2008-2010. The approach is a new form of stop-motion animation, which greatly simplifies the normally complex process of creating animations so that students (university or school students) can design and make their own animations about educational concepts in several hours. Although the approach was originally developed for the teaching of science concepts, it has applicability for teaching in other subject areas such as mathematics, English, history etc. It is ideal as a new form of assignment in university subjects to promote creativity, independent thinking and use of technology. In this three hour workshop, participants will be shown examples of slowmation, be provided with a four-phase teaching approach, provided with a workshop manual and make their own slowmation. It would be advisable for participants to do a “google” search on the word “slowmation” and view some of the URLs to get a context for the workshop.
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