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Suggestions for Using Animations in Teaching Animations can be used to enhance normal teaching techniques such as lectures, reading assignments, hands-on laboratories and classroom discussions. In the past, using "movies" to enhance teaching required a complicated set-up procedure with expensive, noisy, remote projectors that were difficult to start and stop to allow for discussion. Today, nearly all teaching institutions or faculty have some form of computer access in their classrooms — be it a laptop or an internet connection. Therefore, computer animations can be integrated into the lecture easily using free animation players or Powerpoint slides, and the action can be started and stopped with a mouse-click to facilitate discussion at any time. Use animations to illustrate a point after it has been introduced in a lecture, or after readings. Animations illustrate the dynamics of the actions that have already been described in the lecture. Introduce the animation by telling the students what will be illustrated. Stop the animation as it proceeds, review what was just observed and describe the next action that will occur, in context with what was presented in the lecture or readings. While the animation is stopped, ask for questions or discussion of what has been shown up until that time, to ensure that it is being understood. Make the animation available on a teaching website for the students to access so it can be used as a tutorial to study and review the subject matter. The animations presented here:
These tutorials are ideal for Distance Education courses. The animations are in Flash™ format, which means they are small and do not require a high-end computer to be shown. The animations are delivered easily over the internet, even a dial-up modem. The animations are designed to be independent tutorials that cover a complete topic starting from the basic level and progressing to the complex.
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