This Monday was our first day back at university, were i was feeling both excited and nervous to start our new module, Teaching Across the Curriculum. So first day back, and we were supposed to start of with a technologies workshop which consisted of learning about different program’s which allow you to create an animation.

First of all we simply learn how to do a flip book animation. It wasn’t hard after all, we just needed to make sure that we draw the pictures starting from the back of the book and use the last half of the page. It makes it easier to draw animations if you have sticky notes and gives it a better effect.

We watched this video which shows the simplicity of the work, yet an admirable piece which is easily created and makes a story within itself.

The next step was a Pivot animation. This is widely used in schools and create to get children to learn different concepts of ICT together with their imagination.Using Pivot is a great

idea for children as it allows them to tell a story without any words and connect to other people.

Lastly we used ZU3D which was an interesting software which would allow children to create a short movie using figures made out of plasticine. We worked as groups to create this short movie. It took us a long time to try to get things working. We added subtitles and text, however we struggles to add sound to it. This would have given it a much better effect and a great stimulus with it. Another idea would be to add a background which would give it a better visual effect.

Here is our short ZU3D clip.