App of the Week: Animation Desk
Price: $4.99
If you're looking to redefine the creative task of storytelling, consider using this week's app. Animation Desk is a fantastic app that allows the user to animate drawings frame-by-frame. Although a little complicated to figure out how to use, the app developers provide brief video tutorials within the app that do a great job illustrating the app's unusual interface. Once students view the tutorial and have some time to experiment, they could easily create original animated segments to communicate content.
Here are a few classroom implementation ideas:
If you're looking to redefine the creative task of storytelling, consider using this week's app. Animation Desk is a fantastic app that allows the user to animate drawings frame-by-frame. Although a little complicated to figure out how to use, the app developers provide brief video tutorials within the app that do a great job illustrating the app's unusual interface. Once students view the tutorial and have some time to experiment, they could easily create original animated segments to communicate content.
Here are a few classroom implementation ideas:
- If you teach science, have students animate a natural process; for example, the stages of cell reproduction.
- If you teach Social Studies, have students animate a map to show the migration of people or animate the achievements of a historical character.
- If you teach Math, have students animate a real world problem and solution.
- If you teach Language Arts, have students write and animate a story using literary devices, such as suspense or figurative language.
Here is a short, animated example created using Animation Desk:
