Group items tagged

Looking for something to jazz up your literacy lesson? Check out Domo by goannimate. A free animation tool that allows you to create funky looking animations. A great tool for any literacy lesson especially if wanting to emphasise dialog, setting and characterisation for creative writing. 

Critical thinking explained in six kid-friendly animations If you've been looking for a crash course in basic logic - or just want to explain to a friend exactly what a logical fallacy is - turn your attention to these simple, easy-to-understand videos, which lay out the basics of critical thinking. Creative solutions agency Bridge 8 created these animations to offer a basic overview of critical thinking. The videos were designed for an audience of kids (Edit: Australian grades, not ages) 8-10, but they're handy for anyone who wants to brush up on their logic. The first video (up top), provides an introduction to critical thinking and how we form judgments and opinions.

Great list of 5 animation tools that could be used in the classroom. Think I might check some of these out to see if they are suitable for my writers workshop class.

DEFINITELY checking these out! I've been looking for some good ones. Thanks Andrew!

Great Australian animals information for junior students

Useful resource if you want your kids to start creating animations

This could be great for the web 2.0 eyt group its an online animation app with where you can choose from a stable of characters and backgrounds

for all the socio econimists great animated graphic analysis of world income pp etc

A Maths Dictionary for Kids is an animated, interactive online math dictionary for students which explains over 600 common mathematical terms and math words in simple language.

GREAT series of interactive websites on simple machines (goes into some technical detail too)

Great flash animated eg of simple machines

This is great. A huge #stopmotionanimation made using a 8Mp smartphone camera mounted on a cherry picker and a bank of Apple Macs. The making http://vimeo.com/27019750 and the finished product http://vimeo.com/26877221

FANTASTIC interactive site with loads of free stuff in ALL curriculum areas. A must-use for all teachers

Interactive games for p-2

Create a 'wild self' by choosing from different options. A great tool for story writing or even to create an unusual avatar for blogs. Kids love this website.

This is a fantastic free movie making website. The best feature is text to speech, where whatever you type the characters will say. You can also change background, character appearance, characters expressions, voice accent and gender, and camera angles. Set up one account then all the kids can log in with the one username and password.