1. How to Travel
Through
Animaps
by Becky Shelton, Jennifer Burch and Michelle Newell
2. Visual Literacy Research*
Research suggests…..
Students develop visual literacy through practice interpreting
and creating visual messages
Animated graphics are better for learning descriptive facts
than text-only lessons
Visual organizers that include illustrations and text promote
thinking and learning
Using visuals results in greater degree of learning
*Stokes, S. (2001). Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective.
Retrieved December 2, 2011 from http://ejite.isu.edu/Volume1No1/Stokes.html
3. Learning Achieved at the
Highest Degree
• By incorporating visual
learning into lessons,
teachers can move
students along Bloom’s
Taxonomy, thus increasing
understanding
• When students create
their own visual messages,
as they can with Animaps,
they can reach the highest
level of learning
4. Goodbye boring maps
Hello Animaps!
What is Animaps?
• New mapping technology to create and
view beautifully informative animated
maps
• Turns your Google map into a map movie
• Lets you add images, videos and
animations
5. Why Animaps in the Classroom?
• Improve visual literacy skills while
increasing content area understanding
• Students create maps to show highest
degree of learning on Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Maps can be
customized and
enhanced with
images, text,
and video
• Sparks student interest and increases
student engagement
7. Creating a History Lesson
Using Animaps
Provide Animated
Students maps
students Assign
students a would use would
with a
research research to illustrate
tutorial for
project.. create an the visual
using
animated timeline of
Animaps map.. events.
…..
8. Creating lessons cont.…
Allow students time for
research and creating maps—
include time outside of class,
too, so as to not monopolize all
of instructional time
Have students complete
projects either individually or
collaboratively
Reserve time for students to
present completed projects in
class
9. Animaps….not just for
Social Studies Classroom
Tracking an outbreak
Creating story maps in
of a specific disease in
Language Arts
Health
Ideas for using Animaps
in other content areas:
Mapping migratory
Planning a family
patterns of animals in
vacation in Technology
Science
10. What are you waiting for?
useful tool for excellent visual
educators literacy tool
Animaps
address the learning
excite students to
needs of all students
learn out of the norm
Narration: How to Travel Through Animaps: an introduction to Animaps mapping program. Presented by Becky Shelton, Jennifer Burch and Michelle Newell – graduate students at Austin Peay State University.
Narration: Animaps is a great mapping tool that will turn ordinary Google maps into something exciting and beautiful. Animaps lets you add animations that include routes, images, waypoints, texts and more. It is simple and fun to use.
Narration: Animaps is pretty simple to use and they have created a simple to follow tutorial for beginners to get started. The tutorial is located right on their website so we can get there simply from going to the address www.Animaps.com from your internet browser. Here you just click on the Basics Tutorial button and sit back and watch!
Narration: After providing students with an Animap tutorial, the teacher can then assign research projects to the students that will utilize the program. An example research project could be to research significant Civil War events in Tennessee’s history and map them using animaps. The animated map will have to include set requirements. Some examples of set requirements could be that they: Must include no less than 10 events, arranged sequentially, and each stop of tour must include visual representation as well as textual explanation of event and its significance
Narration:Animaps can be an incredibly useful tool for educators. It is an interesting way to display historical events, geographical locations, even timelines. Animaps is an excellent visual literacy tool that can excite students about many subjects that might be somewhat boring when left to the usual format. By incorporating visual literacy tools, such as Animaps, teachers can also address the needs of all their students, whether they are auditory or visual learners.
