“A filmmaking technique where illusion of motion is created frame-by-frame. The word comes from the Latin word, ‘anima’ meaning ‘life’ or ‘soul’”

This week session was based on animation. It was interesting to see how animation gives children many opportunity’s such as developing visual literacy skills. This is a great way to develop literacy. Showing children something as simple as clip can encourage children to write. I have learned that literacy can be taught using visual resources such as film, animation, photographs and picture books.

Other skills that animation will help develop critical observation skills, encourage collaboration and co-operation skills and build problem skills. In developing animation skills pupils have the opportunity to develop sequence and order concepts, demonstrate spatial sense in relation to self and environment, describe and object in relation to another using positional language, use language effectively to describe concepts, work collaboration  in small groups and engage n construction meaning.

Animation can be used across curriculum as a creative medium for pupils to explore and simulate a wide range of ideas.