Introductions and Icebreakers

2010-02-20 14:10:55

Hi, thanks very much for your comment.  I still have a lot to learn on how to manipulate this lovely tool and as it was my very first animation, you can see it is very basic!!  That's why it goes a bit fast in places, I don't know how I got the desk to slide and I need to learn much more about where to place characters.

A way of using this particular animation is to do it as a pyramid note-taking activity and then memory test. Students watch the animation 2-3 times, make brief notes individually and then in pairs  pool together the questions, then they do the same in groups of 3, then 5 then the whole class together. I would then play the animation again and pause after each question to give students enough time to give answers open class.  This is just one example of using this animation as it is.

2010-02-12 21:30:43

Nice animation.  Since you're asking questions you need to give your audience time to read the text bubbles and think about the answers.

A couple of questions: 1) why is the desk sliding and 2) why are you standing on open air between 2 buildings?