Integrating Educational Technologies

     Animations have become widely available on website in recent years. Several of the sites used in creating today's introductory slide show provided animations. Three examples include:

IPY Educapoles "Sea Ice and Icebergs"
http://www.educapoles.org/index.php?/fun_zone/pictures_galleries/sea_ice_and_icebergs/&s=7&rs=14&uid=352&lg=en

NASA Terra ASTER
http://terra.nasa.gov/About/ASTER/index.php

Robin Bell, Michael Studinger, and other's Lake Vostok
http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/news/vostok/vostok.swf

Your assignment:

1) What characteristics make a web animation effective as a classroom teaching tool?

2) When should animations be used for full-class instruction, and when should they be used for small groups or individual projects?

3) Describe strategies to locate suitable animations for your classes.

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4) Design a lesson plan that incorporates at least one animation.

E2C Follow-up:

You may send your model lesson and other responses to this "assignment" to michael@earth2class.org. If suitable, we will post your work in the E2C lesson plans and/or add them to this section of the Workshop website.