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Thiruvananthapuram: The state-owned IT@School Project
in Kerala is all set to empower at least 3,000 schoolchildren with
animation movie-making skills.
Students in Class 8 and 9 will get preference in getting animation
training, based on Free and Open Source Software.
K. Anvar Sadath, executive director, IT@School Project and ViCTERS
educational channel, said the first phase of the training would be
imparted to more than 700 selected students in the state next
month.
"More than 3,000 students would be trained in animation during
this vacation. These students along with the resource persons
would in turn train their schoolmates in training sessions which
would be held in their schools," said Sadath.
The training session would walk the students through the entire
animation movie-making process, including identification of a
story line, development of script and storyboard, drawing the
cartoon characters, animating them, giving sound to characters as
well as providing background music and creating titles for the
films.
The Free Software based application - Ktoon is used in creating
animation films.
"We all know, a normal animation course demands a huge fee from
students and to practice it at home they have to pay huge amounts
as license fee for proprietary graphics, editing and animation
software. Here the course is absolutely free for students and all
these packages and applications have already been included in the
Operating System which was provided to all schools and teachers,"
said Sadath.
IT@School Project, the technology arm of the general education
department Kerala, is considered the world's biggest simultaneous
deployment of Free Software in the education sector.
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