Today in class we learned about avatar animation. He first showed us the website of Science Sim and had us set up an account. It took quite a while for it to download but once downloaded you were given an avatar that you could manipulate and move wherever you wanted it to move. One of the things that fascinated me was that the avatars actually had breathing patterns and moved with their breathing. The avatars could do many things. They could fly, walk, run, and even communicate with other avatars. At first, I couldn't see the point of this exercise or see how this would possibly even help within the classroom but after some thinking I thought that maybe it could just be source of entertainment for the children and be used as a reward. Maybe... when students are finished with a task early they could have the chance to go to the computer is set up in the classroom and they could create their own avatar and experiment with it. Either way some children will really love this activity and others not so much but no one can deny that the technological advances we have made to create something like this is amazing. Well...have a great day! :)
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