get so many games, stories, songs, pictures; etc in website http:learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.orgenshort-stories and it can be used as a
media in teaching-learning process. It also has materials for adult and kids that make a children, parents and teachers easily get knowledge from it.
2.4 Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an
optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways. The most common method of
presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although there are other methods.
Computer animation encompasses a variety of techniques, the unifying factor being that the animation is created digitally on a computer.
1 2D animation
It is created and or edited on the computer using 2D bitmap graphics or created and edited using 2D vector graphics. This includes automated
computerized versions of traditional animation techniques such as of tweening, morphing, onion skinning and interpolated rotoscoping. For
example: Analog computer animation, Flash animation, and Power Point animation.
2 3D animation
3D animation are digitally modeled and manipulated by an animator. In order to manipulate a mesh, it is given a digital skeletal structure that can be
used to control the mesh.
2D animation techniques tend to focus on image manipulation while 3D techniques usually build virtual worlds in which characters and objects move and
interact. 3D animation can create images that seem real to the viewer. The idea of media convergence is also becoming a major factor in
education, particularly higher education. Everything that is defined as separate technologies such as voice and telephony features, data and productivity
applications and video that now share resources and interact with each other, synergistically creating new efficiencies. Media convergence is rapidly changing
the curriculum in universities all over the world.
2.5 Shockwave Flash Object .swf format file
SWF originally an abbreviation for Shock Wave Flash this was changed to the backronym small web format to eliminate confusion with Shockwave, from
which it was derived is a file format for multimedia, vector graphics and Action Script in the Adobe Flash environment. .swf files are completed, compiled and
published files that cannot be edited with Adobe Flash. However, many .swf decompilers do exist. Attempting to import .swf files using Flash allows it to
retrieve some assets from the .swf, but not all. 15
