Review of Activity

Review of Activity - Animated Gifs

The teacher has designed a web-based lesson for student to learn the basic animation concept and to create their own animation gif.

One of the learning outcome is that student can state the six properties of animations after the lesson. Those properties have present in the flash movie in text based with a computer vocal cord. I think this can’t help student to understand the effectiveness of those properties like “frame rate” ,“tweening” and “looping” by just in text form.
Is should better to explain by real animation sample clips to demonstrate the “frame rate” effect the movie‘s smoothness. Since the teacher already use “flash” as the tool, but she mainly use “Flash” like a “PowerPoint “ which have sound added only. I suggest it would be better to add graphic and animation in the flash to explain the properties.

At this lesson state, here only apply the Cognitivism learning Theory since students only remember the points that declared in the tutorial and then answers the MC questions to check they are correct or not to store for long-term memory.

The slide of the flash tutorial at lesson part accidently stops, although the sound still goes on to explain the theory, student can’t follow the tutorial well by this web-based lesson.
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For the activities part, it uses both Cognitivism and Constructivism for student learning.

Cognitivism
The Demonstration Video organize and storage the process of making an animation gifs. Teacher procedures the knowledge and use image (video) to form the mental image.

Constructivism
Since they have to make their own animation gifs, so the knowledge is constructed through assimilate the video and evolved to make their own creative gifs.


Another problem is that the whole tutorial hasn’t taught about how to create a story and how to cut the story into frame which is an important part in animation.
If the main learning outcome is only to make an animation gifs, it should be better to provide the drawn images to student, so they can just follow the Demonstration Video and concentrate to learn how to use the software to combine the images into gifs.

But now the teacher provided the activity worksheet, which the students should draw the frame by frame story themselves, but the concept of how to create a story is never involved in this tutorials. I think this is a mismatch between the learning object, the activity worksheet, and the stated learning outcome.