Animations or Images

   Frankly, I don't see the difference in most learning applications between using an animation over an image. An image can be so rich, so multifaceted, so ambiguous, that through proper manipulation of the form of an image, or by using more than one image, great learning can occur.
    Consider one of my topic earlier, Google Body or Google Earth.  These are basically just images, but they are three dimensional and able to be manipulated by the viewer.  I think viewer interactivity is a better educational litmus test than if the picture actually moves.  
   Lots of educational writers use the term "static" image, but isn't a flash video that replays over and over again just as starchy and annoying.  I think effective visual representations should be able to be played with, adjusted, allowing the reader a way to connect and personalize what he's seeing.  We should be judging our visualizations by the user experience, not just what it "looks like."

A good grammar video...does such a thing exist?

   So I went on the hunt for some good grammar videos.  I'm sure that's a sentence most people write on a daily basis.  What I found were lots of grammar videos but nothing good.  Lots of people in front of the whiteboard, lots of boring stuff.  Grammar is boring to begin with; couple that with the low quality of most web videos . . . I couldn't finish the stuff.  How would my students?