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App of the Week: Animation Desk

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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:
Not that you would do anything crazy, but here:
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