Animation
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When we hear the word "animation" we usually think of cartoon-like videos, where life is given to things which are not alive, but animation does not have to have characters. Animation can refer to the addition of motion. For example: a video of an apple falling from a tree vs. a picture of an apple falling from a tree. The addition of motion to a still picture can often impart information that the still picture does not.

Animation, in the context of producing digital information for instructional purposes, does not need to be fancy in order to be effective. In fact, simple animation is often more effective than animation that contains unnecessary and distracting motion.

This section currently has two videos on animation.

How to Use Animation Effectively: this short video demonstrates how animation can be used to enhance instruction. It was produced using PowerPoint and then compressed using Impatica for PowerPoint. The following video, shows how the animation was created and applied.

Using Animation: this video shows how the actual animation effects, demonstrated in the video above, were created. The video was produced using a program called Camtasia and saved as a Flash Movie.