 If anyone else is coming then we welcome them if not we start the webinar in this nice little group we have now. This webinar about animation creation and learning tool. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. Before we get started let me introduce my colleagues who are kindly offered to help me this afternoon in this webinar. My name is Madar. She is the Deputy Director General of Eden. And I am a researcher in the United States Education. I used to be the project manager of the Anim class project which was dealing with animation creation as a learning tool. Now can you ask all the participants to mute your microphones for the time you are not speaking so that we don't have any echo in the background. You can mute your microphone by clicking on the microphone icon in the top row of your screen. Okay it will happen soon. Until then may I ask you to say a couple of words about Eden and yourself. Thank you very much Krista. It's a pleasure and thank you for inviting me as well to introduce the organization. For those of you who don't know Eden the acronym stands for the European Distance and e-learning network. We are the widest European association of its kind that deals with distance education and e-learning registered in the UK since 1991. Our aim is to provide a platform for collaboration between professionals and to offer information exchange to our members and partners. Eden is open to all sectors and levels of education and training including K-12, higher education, vocational education and training. Even informal and non-formal learning is supported and encouraged by our association. We are organizing face-to-face events as well. Usually professional conferences twice or three times a year and recently we have started the delivery of webinars such as this, the animation creating webinar. And we also participate in EU funded projects in research and practice as well so that we can support our partners and members in these many ways. And now after this brief introduction I would like to give back the floor to our host Krista Mihai and let's get on with the fun stuff. Thank you very much Ilyko. Ilyko is here to help me with handling the chat and your questions and to have moderating the discussion. So thank you very much Ilyko for offering this and be careful what you write in the chat because Ilyko is watching. Now before we just get started I would like to ask Kata to say a couple of words about yourself, how you got involved with this animation stuff via you here. Can you think of how you are devoidable of your microphone? It's much better now. I am a researcher and I work as a e-learning developer at FF. My subject is adaptive learning and learning style and when I am here because I was coordinate the Leona Endo project called Animated Classwork which was the project of the coordinate university. Can you please mute your microphone? Thank you. So it's time for me to introduce myself in a couple of words which I missed at the beginning. My name is Krista Mihalyan working for Eden and in this webinar I am presenting my research and my best field of interest which is animation creation in learning. The aim of the webinar is to give you some insight in how animation creation can be used as a learning tool, not as a demonstrating tool. The difference is very important. We are not using animation creation for demonstrating but for learning a certain part of the curriculum. I would like to get you interested in this tool that can be used in K-12 mostly but also in higher education in teacher training. Before we get started I would like you to answer some questions that will appear in the right down corner on the screen. So I would like to invite you to just make some words and creating the question. I hope you can see the opportunities to answer now so please click one of the answers. Can you see the results? Can you all see the results on the screen? Please, may I have the participants to raise their hands if you can see the results on the screen because I cannot decide if you can see the results or not. Thank you very much. Okay, thank you so much. I can see you see the results. Okay, so I think you can conclude that all of us have seen an animated movie. So let me have one other question. The question is do you know how an animated film, how animated films are created? Can we just see the results once more? Okay, can you all see the result on the screen? Please raise your hands if you can. Okay, so you can see that about one third of the participants know how animated films are created and the two terms I'm not sure or more or less know how animated films are created. Okay, so we can talk about animated films. So let me just show you a short animated movie which was created in the AnimQuest project so that we see something that we've been talking about. If I may, for those of you who are participant, you will see a little enlarger screen. If you see the small screen, there's a larger screen button with four arrows pointing outwards. If you click on that, you will be able to see the video in a bigger screen. It's in Hungarian, but it stops by so you can read the text if you don't understand Hungarian. Can you hear me now? So as you can see, Lily Gappel offered from the teacher to leave the school, leave the classroom. It happens to many students all over the world and it's one of the headline targets of the European Union. For example, I think it's a target all over the world, even in the US. The number of early school leaders increased the ratio of those who complete secondary education. What is very important for keeping children in the school is to motivate them. If you allow me now, I will share my screen with you, but a short presentation about this topic, how animation creation and motivating of children connect to each other. I will ask Erika Gappel to open the screen sharing option. Okay, thank you very much. I hope you can all see my screen now. So what I mentioned earlier is that the problem of early school living is a big question everywhere and it can aim to reduce the number. The headline target of the European Union is to reduce it under the rate of 10% by 2020. Most of the countries are trying to help this issue by finding educational tools to motivate, to increase the motivation of the learners. What is important for motivating the learners is to show them how what they do in the school relates to the world of work and what is expected by employers. It has been proved by research conducted on behalf of the European Union, but it's also highlighted in the Mackenzie report and CEDAFOP report that employers are looking for the 21st century skills of the young people, which is creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication, and of course digital skills. There are many more skills that can be grouped into 21st century skills or stock skills that are called, that are also called them, but these are the four more important ones that we can touch by using animation creation as a learning tool. Which is important, but it promotes faster learning, which is also important in the labour market, and it provides an opportunity for universal design for learning by which we can include the different types of students into the education process for the learning process. And they obviously promote the digital skills since we are using digital tools for structuring animated movies. The animation creation is a tool to help with the motivation process and to promote the students playing in this class by helping or developing the digital skills allowing for personalized learning and promoting the 21st century skills as I said. But how do I know this from? It's from research. And the research about creating animation in the classroom started very long back ago, about 10 years ago, our university initiated a project about teaching with animation, which was followed by another project called Animated Science. And then a project called Animated Learning. And in the meantime, the Coordination University helped do the best, the teacher training centre of Coordination University helped do the best part of the project about how to use animation creation in the vocational secondary schools. And I stopped sharing my screen and I will invite Kata, Kata Linkovic from the Coordination University of Budapest to talk about their experiences. This project was an innovation transfer project at Krista National. So, seven institutions participated in the project. And the project was to get the teachers this method to inform them how to teach with this method and to try in their schools. Two vocational schools participated in the project. The Danish part is to bring the idea into Hungary. And the Hungarian schools tried and implemented into Hungary. One of the vocational schools was very exhausted to participate in the project because the pupils really liked to participate in the project and lots of very good examples and animation films were created. So, in the Hungarian partners in Hungary, we prepared a teacher training module. We accredited it. So it means that now the university can offer this teacher training to other teachers. So, if Krista left, please show some animation that the pupils did. Thank you very much, Kata. Which one shall we select first? Shall we watch the ones created by the woodworkers, for example, or... Is that okay? Yes, thank you. Okay, then I will open that. Okay, thank you, Kata, for telling about your experience. Now I'm trying to open the video sharing, but probably it needs some time to show the playlist which we've seen before. And it's not appearing right at the moment. Yeah, I just asked my colleagues who are experts in Blacksmith to check if they can explore where the video disappeared. Okay, until the videos are loading in, I will try once more because it was really worth to watch them together. They are very valuable pieces. Unfortunately, this uploaded playlist doesn't show. So what we can do is that I copy in the YouTube link for you and share it with you in the chat box, and then you can watch it in your skin. Unfortunately, if I do it by screen sharing, you will not be able to hear the sound of the video, which would be a big loss. Thank you for enjoying the video. So I just stopped this video box, unfortunately. So the uploaded video disappeared. So I'm opening it from the Anand class that's right. It's in Hungarian, but I think it's worth sharing that you are with me as well because many videos are uploaded, which can be watched from there. But now I'm going to select the one that I want to watch it through for sharing the video created by the group workers, the one with the subtitle is not on the left side. Maybe the technician colleague has helped us. Thank you very much. So now we can watch together the video in Adobe Corner. So these are two people by secondary vocational students who have to learn about the work safety and this was the way how they dealt with the topic. And probably you could see from the video that they took in a very humorous and very creative way. So it was much interesting for them than just reading the textbook. I want to see one more from this series, which was created by those students who were learning how to make pastry. And the next animation is about pastry making. It was created by vocational students. The special type of nods that they are making in this little video. And you could see they took some smile at the end to make it more exciting. Our participants now that you could see some animated movies and they've been talking about animation. What do you think we need to introduce this method into any kind of education, in higher education as well? What do you think we need for that? Anyone who would share your opinion with us, please feel free to raise your hand and then talk about what do we need to introduce this into the classroom, this method animation creation. We're volunteering to share your ideas with us. Does anyone have experience with animation creation? Have you ever created an animated movie? Those of you who have ever created an animated movie, please raise your hand. Thank you for that Marci, Maria, Mathias. We've ever created an animated movie. I understand that it's your friends who have ever created an animated movie. Would you be willing to share with us your thoughts about it or what you think it's needed for introducing this method in the classroom? Just in few words. Again, you can type in the chat as well. Oh, okay, I can see Mathias saying that I took part at the seminar and did the best and I was surprised how easy it was. Okay, Mathias, so maybe you could share with us your experience. Yes, science is saying that it's the best means of motivating learners. Well, I don't know if it's the best, but I know it's a very good way of motivating learners. We could see that in a contest project in the vocational schools and also with the Danish colleagues in Denmark. So Mathias, can you say what you think it's needed to take it in the classroom? Or if you prefer to write, you can write it in the chat, of course. If you don't want to speak, I will not force you to speak. It's just an option, it's an opportunity that you can hear your voice. Ah, okay, I understand you have no microphone, no problem. So then maybe you can share with us in the writing. Yes, we need a webcam. That's quite important. Or if you don't have a webcam, you can also use a lot of these which has a webcam built in. So one of the smartphones and a lot of children even at the very end they have a smartphone. And I'm not surprised, yes. So a lot of those means a lot of kind of objects that we can use. But as you could see, we can create animations from basically anything. So we can use clay, we can use little items, but basically anything that we find. And really quite saying that we need a storyboard. That's quite important, yes, a storyboard. And this leads to competency development because when children or children are designing the storyboard in a group, they must talk to each other and they must think through what will be the beginning, what will be the end and what will happen in between which is putting together a sequence and so it's really single logic. And they have to use their creativity how to represent the base of their creation and how to represent it in a visual way. So yes, that storyboard is a very important part. Okay, I'm sharing my screen again. So can we please switch to that option with the screen sharing? Thank you very much. So you said that we need a webcam. We need some technical background. That's very important. But the other thing that I think we need for introducing animation creation in the classroom is the determination because the teachers are always very hesitant to introduce something that is new, something that they are afraid of and something that they think that it will be difficult for them to control the process. And it's very important that we trust our students because in our experience and I think that anyone who has ever seen a child in this country can be sure that kids are much better in handling this technique and we must trust them to use the technique and leave them to organize their own learning and the learning process should be organized in a way that the teacher becomes the facilitator in the process and doesn't want to control each moment of the lesson but let the students and the children to explore what they can do and how they can make mistakes and how they can learn from them mistakes. So it's very, very important to change the teaching and controlling the role of the facilitator. And of course the simple technique that we got back around is something that supports this process. And what is the result of using animation in the classroom? Well, as we heard from Kata, many happy students and happy teachers as well because all of the teachers have been doing animation they're very happy and very excited and they were very keen on introducing this method into their own classes and of course it's a big opportunity to introduce freedom into the classes and the freedom of thinking, creativity and to bring school and life closer to each other as I referred to at the beginning that 21st century skin development is needed for the labor market and in this way learning is just a side effect. Of course it's a challenge because it's an untraditional learning and it implies for new teachers to relationship. All right, so that's basically it what I wanted to tell you about this method and if you can go back to the discussion set up we can see each other again I would like to show some more videos which were created in a teacher training after the white teachers not by students so that you can see that it's not only young children not just the students who get excited about creating movies but also teachers in teacher training get excited about it and I'm having the same problem that the player does not appear so if you just give up so for this technical problem somehow the video disappears so the player does not appear I asked my colleague to find them again the way she found them previously so the one I'm showing now was prepared by teachers and they were primary school teachers and they just created a little animation for teaching math another one is coming about math again and now I must admit that I'm a teacher of mathematics so that's why I'm very fond of this topic and I was very happy to see that primary school teachers used animation to teach math like this video in stock sharing okay, then try another one okay the next one I'm going to share with you was created for history for learning history I like this one very much because we can see that how creativity can be invited in using this method and that whatever you find on the table the board can be used for creating an animated movie and I think it's a very big value of the method okay, I'm not showing you any other animations now so thank you for your attention and before you leave I would like to ask one last question in the four books if you can share answers with us I would be very grateful because I'm very curious what you are thinking about animation creation now after this webinar I hope you got some motivation I hope you can see the questions now with make a vote can everybody make a vote? can I also make a vote again because she is appearing okay, so I would say most of you would like Israeli to make an animated movie and the others are a bit hesitant but if you need more encouragement then we invite you to visit the AnimCross website and also the website of the Danish the Danish project about the animation creation and I'm sharing the animated science website video this is where you can read material in English this animated science website has a lot of movies about how to animation creation style, education and it is available in English and Danish but if you just want to see some more animated movies and get some more ideas then you can watch the AnimCross website where you can find a lot of videos without understanding the language you can watch too and the question about the AnimCross website guide the visitors to the animation creation process and my answer is yes it runs but it's in Hungarian because they visit us to animation creation process in Hungarian but the other website is also the animated science it goes through the visitor in English so English speakers are invited to visit the animated science website thank you very much for the word Christa, I was fascinated by the videos because you could see how simple yet informative were and me having a 13 year old daughter I can relate those moments when she felt the achievement by creating something like that and to me at least now it feels like I really would like to give it a try so I have a few small questions like how long do you think the creation of any one of the animations you showed us today these short ones if you have all the props the phone and the little toys how long does it take to create an animation like that and my second question is what tools or software do you use to make these animations thank you very much for the question it was very important and I think that Matthias who participated in the event conference in the summer and who was telling us and I was very happy to read that he was fascinated how easy it is to do it I think we can say also how fast it is to do it because the event trading in the annual conference all together two hours and within that two hours the group were creating several animated movies and we started the whole process from the very beginning so that was the first time 20 minutes for 2-3 minutes long animated movie maybe it's a bit underestimating the time you can use the 25 minutes but it's really not that time consuming as we think it is and to your second question if you want to use the laptop under that kind of scenario or that setup we usually use a free software called Monkey Town I shared a link in the chat box with you in a moment it can be freely downloaded from the internet and it's a very easy to use software that anyone can learn in like 5 minutes too so it's a free software for PCs and for the mobile application on an Android platform I always use Peek Pack I probably can show it on my phone and at least the icon which can be downloaded from from Google Play for the Android and for iOS I must track the online class website because I'm not an iPhone user but on the online class website we collected all these applications that can be used in different platforms so yes on iOS I stopped motion studio that's the free software that can be used on Windows 1 easy 3D camera but without knowing the language you can take a look at this page and you can see the icon of the application that we can use on mobile did I answer all the questions thank you so to all participants for spending this time with us I hope you enjoyed it and I hope it was useful and of course if you have any further questions after the webinar then you are welcome to write to me you can find my email address on evens website or you can just contact the secretary at email box and they'll be happy to have you so thank you very much you stand also cut up for your time I know we are all very busy in this period and all the participants who just spared this one hour to stay with us apologies about the technical issues but I hope I can speak on behalf of everybody and I hope it was enjoyable of an experience thank you very much have a nice day for those of you who are starting the day now in the US and have a nice evening for those of you who have joined us from Europe and coming to close