Thomas Hardye School kids take part in Films for Learning
The Thomas Hardye School’s ASDAN Animation Project 2010
This Thomas Hardye School project has been designed to deliver a Section C Challenge for Module One - Communication for the ASDAN Certificate of Personal Effectiveness through group work using animation. Students will develop skills in communication between their peers and with others, both younger and older than themselves. The group use simple video cameras connected to laptops running a range of software including Kudlian’s ‘I Can Animate’, Reallusion’s ‘Crazy Talk’, Microsoft’s Moviemaker and Sound Recorder.
You can view the students’ projects through this link.
Follow up/Extension:
The ASDAN students will visit a first school. There the students will teach/lead first school children through a simple animation task/project which may involve making a ‘Silent Movie’ using their animation skills.
Assessing the Project’s Impact:
Following the first session we made arrangements that a Teaching Assistant would interview on video each participating student. Each student was asked several questions to assess levels of competence, confidence and prior knowledge. At the end of the project following the visits to the first schools the students will be asked the same questions and their responses will be recorded again on video to attempt to assess the impact of the project.
Initial observation and feedback indicates very high levels of engagement from the students with the development of planning, communication skills and confidence. The opportunity to write and speak without necessarily being seen (as the animated characters were speaking not them) was identified by them as a preferred way of presenting. Also identified was that animation required the students to maintain very high levels of focus and concentration which the majority achieved for several hours at a time. Using the animation and film software they were able to use ICT creatively. All the students enjoyed the activity and only one has declined the opportunity to visit the first school in the extension activity.
Mark Richardson Project Leader, Teacher at Thomas Hardye School and Films for Learning Coordinator www.filmsforlearning.org
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