Animation fun!

I have created this animation on... http://www.abcya.com/animate.htm
I really liked this site, I thought it was easy to use and especially child friendly.

As you can see from the image (above) it uses simple picture buttons, it is colourful and does not have too much information on the screen. Despite being simple the site works perfectly well.

However, if I were recommending an animation site to a professional, I would not recommend this site as it appears to have the target audience of a child. I would recommend this website for pupils in Primary schools.

I did face one problem when using this site, which was saving it. Although this might have been to fault of lack of memory on my laptop, when I tried to re open the 'gif' after saving it, it froze my laptop.

To solve this problem I simply saved it in a smaller format and it worked. For example, looking at the image (below) when I saved the gif in 'Quarter' there were no problems at all.

I think teaching younger pupils about this animation program is significant in that it prepares them from a young age about the new focus of ICT at GCSE, where they are taught to program rather than simply use Microsoft software.