Every day is a school day

One of the best things about my job is that I never stop learning.  Today my 1st year Ed Studies group were playing with 2animate to create animations of their favourite catch phrase.  I asked them to put them on their blog and reflect on the process as normal.  One clever student has given me a really cool way to add the active animation directly to the blog as blogger doesn't support gifs, using a cool website called TinyPic.com to grab the embed code!

Et voila!

Animations in Education

Alice's Catch Phrase

Animation has had quite an influence on my practice over the last few years. As Visual Communication is part of my Educational Studies course in year 1 animation seemed like a useful and fun way of doing just that. This is the 3rd year that I have used 2Animate with the students and it still appeals as much as the first time! I love most of the 2simple applications anyway so it is easy to pass on my enthusiasm ans share one of their best products.