1. Animation for Education
In this support system for educators, iCreate to Educate helps
teachers and schools from primary through higher education become
better learners by making animation more accessible throughout Europe.
It offers some great resources and valuable animation software and
resources. It also has a free stop-motion animation tool called SAM.
2. Animwork
A European partnership created this guide to help teachers
learn more about using animation to teach. With some basics in place
such as how to create a good story and what tools to use, Animwork puts everything into perspective for any teacher who wants to create his or her own animation.
3. GoAnimate for Schools
Easy and quick, GoAnimate for Schools is
a one-stop shop for creating custom animation that’s well-made and easy
to use. Globally accessible to any educator, it’s also secure and
educators get a major discount. Schools can sign up about 200 students
at a time.
4. GoAnimate
If the purpose of using the animation tool is solely for teaching and sharing educator-created animation, take another route to GoAnimate for
business. This tool has a free sign-in where educators can use basic
tools to create animation with whatever message they need to get across
to their students.
5. Devolver
Quick animation with some bizarre characters and sleek
backgrounds that help make a point or send students into the beginning
or end of a lesson makes Devolver a
great tool for the educator who moves fast. Students can also use it to
email professors their interpretation of a theory or lesson.
6. Voki
Adding an interesting twist to communication and lecturing, Voki allows
educators to create avatars that speak for them. Record or type in
messages and send or embed the clips on a site. Voki even offers
educator logins with free extras.
7. PowToon
A free business presentation tool, PowToon helps
users create animated presentations with quality graphics. It even has a
home dedicated to educators at any level. PowToon touts itself as being
as easy to use as Powerpoint and educators seem to think it is.
8. Make It Share It
For those who prefer to draw, there’s Make It Share It.
Create your own drawings from stick figures to sketches to full
cartoons and animate them all online. This might be an online tool to
share with students who like to draw or to create a project.
9. Wideo
But, if drawing seems to just get in the way, go to Wideo.
Some modern graphics with interesting selections and fonts give users
the ability to make unique videos for business and education. Nicely
done tutorials provide users with confidence and basic skills to begin
quickly.
10. Mixeek
This free software allows users to design web animations
based on Javascript, CSS3, and HTML5. One of the best parts of this tool
is that users can make their animation interactive. Mixeek also makes it easier for beginners to start the whole process with simple tutorials.
11. Myths and Legends
Hailing from the United Kingdom, this site is best used as a
tool for students to create their own myths and legends. For instance,
students might want to turn a factual news story into a myth or legend
using the Myths and Legends tools.
12. Zimmer Twins
Make a movie or watch a movie with animation tools set neatly in place at Zimmer Twins. Create scenes from scratch or choose from scenes that are already set up. Educators can take advantage of Zimmer Twins at School by creating accounts for up to 40 students including blogs for added communication.
13. Loogix
For simple movements and creative elements of photographs or short film, use Loogix. It’s very basic and not as innovative or interactive but it gets the job done if the goal is to add a fun twist to images.
14. Blabberize
A hilariously fun site, Blabberize turns
any image into a talking image complete with your recorded message.
Now, whatever point any educator’s trying to make is a lot more
effective when a talking cat, dog, or lama says it.
15. Aniboom
If there’s a need for something more tailored and none of the tools you’ve looked at so far meet your needs, try Aniboom.
There you’ll find access to actual animators. Just post your project
then assign an artist to it. You can check on the progress during the
process.
16. Creaza
Another online animation tool has both a free limited
version and a version that you can get a quote on for pricing. With a
large variety of backgrounds and characters, using the premium version
might be worth it. Creaza’s selling points are the video editor, an
audio editor, a cartoon editor and a mind map builder.
17. Doink
An app for ipads, iphones, and ipods, Doink offers
really creative tools that allow users to customize artwork and to
create a library of drawings and animations. With a composition editor,
animation appears professional and adds more versatility than a lot of
other programs out there.
Ready To Go Animation
The following links will help educators find animation
that’s already set in motion. It’s tried and true so educators simply
search for their subject or their purpose and grab videos to help their
students grasp concepts or even learn difficult material that otherwise
may have eluded them.
18. TEDEd
Here educators will find brilliant animation with unique twists on a basic concept add new dimensions to learning with TED Ed.
The clips are usually short, approximately 5 minutes, but they squeeze
important information into that time frame and do it rather effectively.
19. Brain Pop
Another site with quick clips, Brain Pop simplifies
difficult lessons in all the basic subjects including engineering and
technology. Like TED Ed, it adds material constantly so there’s always
more to choose from; however, there is a fee to access the material.
20. BBC History
Walk through the architectural planning of the Colosseum,
watch the reconstruction of the Iron Age Chariot, and learn about the
Battle of Somme in World War I among many other animated insights. It
can all be found at the BBC Interactive Content Animations.
21. ABC
An Australian site full of insightful and entertaining documentaries, ABC also has cool animated videos about Greek gods, Naval officers, and science plus lots of interactive video and gaming.
22. Explania
From learning how to save the oceans to how to calculate your body mass index, the animations seem endless on Explania. Just register and gain access to creative animations that explain almost anything.
23. Google Apps
Google Apps for Education is
filled with animated apps that shed light on otherwise out of reach
concepts and difficult problems that sometimes even the best educator
can’t perfect into a lesson readable by all students. GeoGebra and
Desmos have sketchpads and graphing calculators and that’s just the
beginning.
24. Enlightenment
RSA brings
power to intellectual debates with animation. Use their videos as a
springboard for further debate or to introduce 21st century topics to
any subject that thrives on arguments.
25. Brainpickings
Full of informational animations that give the learner visuals that transfer difficult concepts into understandable snippets, Brainpickings narrows the gap between confusion and understanding.
26. Literature
Openculture compiled
a list of animations relating to various literature such as Emily
Dickinson’s poetry and Shakespeare. Explain the wonders of Plato and
Kafka as well as Hemingway with these short clips.
27. Electric Literature
Find folktales, comedies, minidramas, and more, all animated with fascinating graphics and sound on Electric Literature. Bring story telling to students with these videos that offer unique perspectives.
28. WatchKnowLearn.org
With tons of videos to choose from, some aren’t animated but you can sift through them to find the animated ones. WatchKnowLearn.org is
broken into subject areas and acts as a database for rated videos that
teach students. The ratings have stars and a review, which is really
helpful because it saves time when choosing which one to use.
29. Canada Film
At the site for the National Film Board of Canada,
educators will discover free streaming documentaries and animated
films. Short animated films about poets, poetry, music, and other themes
add interest and are a great resource for any educator.
30. National Geographic
While housing all types of great resource videos, National
Geographic also has valuable interactive animations for teaching about
the world around us and the world itself. Click through the steps of Greenhouse Effect and learn exactly how it works.
31. BioInteractive
Sleek, professional, colorful, and detailed animations at BioInteractive help
educators communicate their curriculum with students. Educators choose
from topics such as anatomy, brain, cancer, cardiovascular, organism
behavior, and a lot more.
32. The Archeology Channel
Using Google maps, The Archeology Channel has
created an interactive map that gives educators a visual guide of its
animated videos of historical figures and finds according to the country
or region. For instance, if educators click on Italy, they’ll find a
video about Matilda of Canossa.
33. How Stuff Works
Full of videos, the animated ones make understanding any subject or process much easier at How Stuff Works. Under the category Culture, you might click on the animated video How Murphy’s Law Works.
34. Cell Biology Animation
John Kyrk created
intricate animations explaining cell biology. Beginning with amino acids
and protein and delving into DNA structure, the animation available on
his site provides learners with complete visuals into the workings of
cell biology.
35. Plant & Soil Sciences eLibrary
Access well-made animations of flower structures, plant
breeding, gel scoring, gene cloning, genetic mapping, herbicide
metabolism and so on. Plant & Soil Sciences eLibrary allows educators to access and use animated videos for free after they login.
36. Exploratorium
Split into categories such as Astronomy or Cognitive
Science/Psychology, educators can find animated videos depending on the
subject within the subject inside Exploratorium.
37. iTunes U
Find any and everything at iTunes U,
just search or select a category and move through animation after
animation. Sign up as an educator and add something even more useful to
the equation by creating your own unique lessons or even videos.
38. MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers open courses
with some great animation available. Check out some of the courses
available at MIT and send students that way if they need extra guidance or even if they need a good challenge.
39. PBS Online
Inside PBS.org,
educators have access to animations of such topics as growth,
well-being, and jobs in what it calls the new economy or the story of
Theodore Roosevelt’s building the Panama Canal.
40. YouTube
Another helpful place to find animations, YouTube delivers
any and every animation on almost any topic or subject imaginable.
However, educators might have to sift through some unprofessional videos
while searching.
41. Science Stage
Not just focused on science, Science Stage is
worth visiting for almost any subject except literature. Anyone who
wants to learn more about a chosen field will find all the videos
fascinating, not just the animations.
42. NOVA
An animation of the “Island of Stability†for
physics or animation of the growth spurts of a T. Rex give learners
clear insight into the unseen worlds of learning on NOVA, a subsection of PBS.
43. NBC Learn
From sustainability of water to the science of the summer Olympics, NBC Learn makes education simple and understandable. The animations work alongside professional videos explaining various topics.
44. History
History actually partnered with Aniboom and created a
contest where people use Aniboom to create a historical, animated video.
On top of that, History online has awesome interactive games, maps, and
timelines including Ellis Island: Then and Now and hilarious animation
of Greek Gods.
45. LearnersTV
If educators need animated video of science subjects such as biology, chemistry, and physics, then LearnersTV boasts
animated videos detailing these subjects. It also catalogues video on
such subjects as engineering and economics but those videos aren’t
animated.
46. Maps of War
At Maps of War,
the history of religion, the Imperial history of the Middle East,
democracy, terrorism, the World Wars, and more map out the past and
sometimes the future, depending on how you look at it.
47. Khan Academy
Well-respected and known as the place to go for all learners, Khan Academy masters teaching and animation with videos that lead a student to the unanswered questions.
48. See Math
See Math animations
explain simple and complex math with animations that make learning
precise and understandable. Educators can sign up and show the videos to
students or have students sign up and learn.
49. Math is Fun
Animated cubes, triangular prisms, hexakis icosahedrons,
gyroelongated square bicupola, or hebesphenomegacorona among other
three-dimensional animated shapes fill the web pages of Math is Fun, offering learners various ways to manipulate and view the movements.
50. Vimeo
If educators search Vimeo,
they’ll find some nicely done animation of shorts about anything from
sci-fi to love stories as well as beautifully done animation of
challenging and enlightening concepts to spark creativity and innovation
with any learner who needs a boost of imagination.
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