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Animation and Online Teaching

Animation and Online Teaching
Galen Foresman, Scott Cooper, Chris Metivier

Animation can help:
unity and consistency
reusability
engagement of material
attractive to students
avoids the “talking head” model
Course structure: reminds me of a game interface (like Mario)
Course content: reminds me of Strongbad
Interactivity
Production
Characters: voice, appearance, attitude
Script: course content, dialog
Storyboard: narrative form, visual gags (and chart, if branching)
Animation: bring it all together
Animation [...]

LITA Distance Learning Interest Group

I co-chair the Distance Learning Interest Group with Karen Wetzel. LITA Discussion Groups are largely about discussion, while we do other things too. We had an agenda that had us covering topics ranging from a call for a new co-chair, our annual program, potential online courses, our blog, ways to coordinate with ACRL’s [...]