Wednesday, January 12, 2011

What is EDUTAINMENT?

Edutainment (also educational entertainment or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate as well as to amuse. Edutainment typically seeks to instruct or facilitate social interaction in its audience by embedding lessons in some familiar form of entertainment: Television programs, computer and video games, films, music, websites, multimedia software, and so on. Examples might be guided nature tours that entertain while educating participants on animal life and habitats, or a video game that teaches children conflict resolution or math or reading skills.

Here is an example of an Edutainment...

What is animation?

Animation is the illusion of movement created by quickly showing a series of images, each slightly different from the last.

This sounds confusing but the easiest way to understand animation is by making a flip book. All you need to do is make a little book and then draw a slightly different picture on each page. Then as you flip through the pages quickly, the pictures come to life.
Here are the steps in making your own flipbook. Just follow this link below.



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