Animation: For Better Experience in Teaching

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Nowadays, there are lots of people using technology in their life, even in education. Students prefer to use technology to study rather than paper. Moreover, using technology in the classroom gives the teacher the opportunity to develop their students’ digital citizenship skills.  That’s why the teacher must fit the learning process with students’ needs. The teacher must consider using such technology in their teaching materials, such as text, audio, video, animation, or combination of those.

Using animation is one of the teaching materials that might engage students’ attention. It will provide an interesting material instead of monotonous material, like in the textbook. Teachers can provide the material through animation. Moreover, students can create their own story to become an animation.

One of the websites that can make an animation is Animaker. Through this web, you can make great animation freely. We can deliver our story in the form of animation, instead of just in a text. Moreover, you can add voice over and music background in it. 

In Animaker, there are two versions. Animaker 1.0 and Animaker 2.0. Both versions are very easy to use. Moreover, you can build our own character there. Unfortunately, there are several items that must be upgraded if you want to use it. You can subscribe to Animaker to access those tools. But, if you don't want to, I think the free items are enough for creating an interesting animation video.

Animaker 1.0

Animaker 2.0

Here is my animation video. This video tells about daily activities in the morning before going to school. This video is suitable for seventh grades students.

Even though this is not a perfect animation video, I hope that it can be an inspiration to be applied in classroom learning.