Animation
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VIDEO COLLECTION: Pixar In A Box Teaches Math Through Real Animation Challenges
While I have some of the same beef Christopher Danielson and MC POPPER Michael Paul Goldenberg express about Kahn Academy (see Does the Khan Academy know…
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BOOK Profiles Disney's Involvement in WWII Effort
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VIDEO: Animation Summarizes Children, Literacy & Film Research
Becky Parry, lecturer in childhood studies at the University of Leeds, has shared this video summarizing her research findings.…
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Why Are All The Cartoon Mothers Dead?
The dead-mother plot is a classic of children’s fiction, but animated movies have supplied a new twist: the fun father has taken her place. Details in The Atlantic.
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ARTICLE/RESOURCE: Animating Your Classroom
Professional development educator Sam Gliksman sees the advantages of engaging students and teachers in animation productions, using the iPad. Of one production he writes "The objects and animation were the result of collaborative discussion, collective imagination and creativity, problem solving,…
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Animation App
“McLaren’s Workshop” is a creativity app for the iPad that allows students to practice…
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Ultimate Guide to 3D Animation
This UK-produced publication, Ultimate Guide to 3D Animation, (which I found at my local Books-A-Million store) is chock full of great advice and tutorials. The cover image features a variety…
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BOOK explores animation techniques
Although The Encyclopedia of Animation Techniques is not new (Running Press Book Publishers, 1996) I found it to be quite informative and instructive about the…
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VIDEO: Animated Astronaut Story
The legend of 9-year-old Ron McNair ignoring the segregation of 1959 to check out library books in Lake City South Carolina now can be experienced in a new medium — animation.…
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SHORT FILM: Kiwi!!!
This is one of my favorite short films to teach for a multitude of reasons. First, it requires students and teachers to flex their visual thinking /literacy abilities. Simultaneously, it works on all those traditional…
