Teaching Science Concepts in Higher Education Classes with Slow Motion Animation
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E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, October 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-60-0
Abstract
Clay animation is a form of stop motion animation but is rarely used as a teaching approach in higher education classes because it is too tedious and time consuming. "Slow Motion Animation" (Slowmation) is a simplified form of clay animation that is different in four ways and can be completed in 1-2 hour tutorial or workshop: (i) models of science concepts are made and manipulated in the horizontal plane; (ii) a range of materials can be used; (iii) the animations are played at 2-6 frames per second; and (iv) science concepts are annotated with factual text. This study demonstrates how 30 teacher education students used Slowmation to make a QuickTime animation of the life cycle of a frog in a two-hour tutorial. Slowmation is a teaching approach that is feasible for use in university classes and is a motivation for students to engage in the content knowledge of science.
Citation
Hoban, G. (2006). Teaching Science Concepts in Higher Education Classes with Slow Motion Animation. In T. Reeves & S. Yamashita (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 1641-1646). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 11, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/23947.
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