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===**Resource for lesson: Exploring the multimodal text type of clay animations**. ===  __Clay animation examples__. **﻿ **
 * 1) A ameturer attempt at creating a Wallace and Gromit episode. []
 * 2) A clay animation created to teach the alphabet. []
 * 3) A clay animation informing about the problem of feral cats. []
 * 4) A clay animation about food chains. []
 * 5) A clay animation about science safety. []
 * 6) Professional use of clay anamation. BBC worldwide(2005) Wallace and Gromit; Three cracking adventures.
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__**Internet sites that show the procedure of how to make a clay animation.**__

**Internet resource 1** [|Procedure to make a clay animation] How to animate clay //wikihow// site. [|How to animate clay procedure]
 * Internet resource 2**

An exhustive site decicated to clay/slow animation. [|Clay animator: How to site]
 * Internet resource 3**

This resource is a collection of clay animation clips which vary in purpose and audience. The clips should show the students the possibilities that clay animation has as a multimodal text. They also show a range of productions from ametuer to professional so the students can see a variety of examples. The clips vary in the elements that they use to create their message such as music, text and voice over. This resource also conatins the links to websites which provide a age appropriate procedure on how to make a clay animation.
 * Brief description of resource:**

This resource is relevant to the english outcome; English: WS2.12 Uses joined letters when writing in NSW Foundation Style and demonstrates basic desktop publishing skills on the computer because it allow students to investigates the use of multimedia incorporating text, graphics, sound, animation. It is also relevant to the english outcome WS2.13; Discusses how own texts are adjusted to relate to different readers, how they develop the subject matter and how they serve a wide variety of purposes. The students do this by identifing the audience of the clay animations and discusses the purpose of the animation. Exploring clay animations allow the students to explore both visual and verbal grammar that is necessary to produce this multimodal text type. It also allows the students to explore desktop publishing skills to produce such texts.
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