High School and Middle School Web and Computer Animation

Nikki Jarvis, Business and Animation Educator, Adelanto HS:

“I like the business career simulation style or what you (CTeLearning ) call the Virtual Internship model. This course, allows me to give the students a real-world experience where my students have a client, boss and even get emails with attachments.  All of the course’s videos, tutorials allows my students to work at their own pace, and all the teacher solutions and support keep my class prep time to a minimum. Your course-ware gives me the chance to focus on being there for my students and still plenty of room to incorporate my ideas and activities to make this whole experience for my students uniquely my own.“

Some of what you can expect your learners to achieve:

• Understand the basics of animation, the design process, and critical assessment
• Understand the basics of creating characters, walk cycles, lip-sync, and life-like movement
• Recognize what it takes to be a professional in the industry
• Understand the fundamentals of scriptwriting and persuasive language as it applies to engaging a target audience
• Creating original sound effects for animation
• Creating original music for animation
• Professional storyboarding techniques, creating storyboards, and sculpting targeted messages for the best impact
• Audio engineering soundscapes for animation
• Demonstrate how to produce and deliver final products for desktop or web use.
• Able to analyze, test, and critically review work and use feedback to improve the animation and its message
• How to present animated designs to a client
• Understand the legal issues of intellectual property
• Create a Portfolio of animations with varied messaging that can be shown to potential employers
• Produce animations with special effects including tweens and other motion effects
• Learn how to animate music videos, long and short-form animations, and marketing animations

• Platforms – PC, Mac, and Chromebook**
• Length – Semester/Year
• Career Cluster – Information Technology/Arts, AV Technology and Communications
• International Industry Recognized Certifications – Yes, Embedded and Free
• Standards & Alignments - National, State, Industry, CTE, TEKS , and more - just ask us
• Course Completion Digital Badge (Free) – MS, HS, Adult
• Level – Middle School, High School, Post-Secondary
• Curriculum Delivery – Web-based
• Student Competitions – Yes
• CEUs – Available for Teacher Training
• Prerequisites for Facilitator – None
• Prerequisites for Students – None
• 3rd Party Tools – Use our free Web-based CTeL Animation Suite - Nothing to install (or bring your own Adobe Animate) 

** Our free Web Animation Suite is fully Chromebook, PC and Mac ready. All your students creative work is done in the cloud with nothing to intall on their device. 

Absolutely. We use cloud-native rendering technology so that the "heavy lifting" happens on our servers, not the student's device. This ensures every student has a smooth, high-speed animation experience.

Students learn the 12 principles of animation, 3D modeling, rigging, and character movement using tools that mirror professional studio workflows.

Yes. It is designed as a high-skill, high-wage career pathway that meets the rigorous requirements for federal Perkins V funding and state CTE audits.