My great friends at FableVision Learning introduced me to the most FUN program I have ever played with: Animationish!
If you have read the children’s books “The Dot” or “Ish”, both written and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds, then this program will look quite familiar! In his book, “Ish”, his goal is to teach children they don’t need to worry about drawing perfectly , just something tree-ish, or boat-ish. It is a wonderful story with a great message! I love his illustrations as well! Back to my point…Peter is also the founder of FableVision, the educational media company that created Animation-ish. As you might have guessed, the program is used to easily teach children and adults to animate “ishly”. All the button are whimsically drawn by Peter and the program helps even the most creativity-challenged become very creative! Just ask my students!
For my Math For Elementary Teachers course, I always have the students write their own story problems. This past year I took it one step further. My 13 year old son came to my classes and taught my students to use Animationish. They were very impressed that a 13 year old could easily teach them how to use it! Their project was to write a story problem, create a story board, and then animate their story using the Free trail (15 day) of Animationish. Their projects were AMAZING!!
This is the first time in my 23 years teaching that every single student (without exception) not only did the project, but did an amazing job on it! Everyone actually earned 100%! I got their permission to create a website to post their animations on the web. Check them out!
I would HIGHLY recommend downloading their free trial and playing with it – you will love it, too! The school my children go to has Animationish on every computer, where teachers use the program to make every subject more fun. Kids are animating stories they write, math problems, scenes from history, biology cycles, etc. The only limit is your imagination.
