I was wandering around on youtube earlier tonight and I stumbled across a few different animated videos that I thought were pretty interesting. This video is one of the videos I stumbled on. It's an animated video that shows different animations of the human body, such as DNA strands, birth, and neck movements along with some other stuff. It got me wondering how often animation is used for medical purposes. Animation can be used for a lot of things, and one of those things is education.
Whether or not this is something you have already realized, but we as students see animation basically every day. Powerpoint presentations often contain some sort of animation in it. If you watch the news or shows like ESPN's SportsCenter, the graphics that they show are all different types of animation. For students involved in medication or the human body, or even geology students, animation is key to their studies.
Animated videos like the one I have given in the link have the ability to show students what they can't see with their own eyes. It can offer students an easier way to learn how different things work or how it looks. Take for example, this video. It explains the effects of smoking, but it does it in a far more scientific way rather than just saying "you can have lung problems." That video is a perfect example to my point which, as I stated earlier, is that animation is actually more important to education than what many know.
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I really liked your post. Animation has such a large association with entertainment that I think often its abilities are viewed as being confined to that industry. It is a versatile medium that can go outside the entertainment industry. Animation is a great teaching tool and as it can be used to show a process in motion. There has been a lot of great animation work in science as well, demonstrating topics such as physics. Animation in itself is a science.
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