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Name ARIIZUMI Takashi

Title

Using free software to create digital teaching materials of animal development and regeneration

Author

Takashi Ariizumi

Name of publication

Annual Report of the Center for Teacher Education Research, Tamagawa University

Publisher

 

Volume (No.)

 

Issue (No.)

7

Start page

61

 

End page

72

Date of publication

2017

Presence/absence of peer review

Batu

Presence/absence of request

Batu(Ordinary Paper)

Language of publication used

Japanese

Posting category

Domestic

Type of publication

Prompt report, short report, and research note, etc. (bulletin of university, research institution)

Type of authorship

Individual works

ISSN

2187-7483

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Summary

Digital teaching materials that incorporate videos and computer graphics have the potential to offer significant benefits in the field of science education. The use of digital teaching materials makes it possible to show the students the process of development, by which an adult human being gradually grows from an egg, in less time and from different aspects. However, commercially available software to generate digital teaching materials is very expensive. A high-performance computer is also necessary and advanced techniques are required to master it. Economic and technical limitations make it difficult for a science teacher to prepare his or her own digital teaching materials. Therefore, the present study proposed the use of home PC and software, which can be downloaded free of charge from the Internet, to easily create digital teaching materials. In this paper, ImageJ and other such free software were utilized to create videos of the processes involved in Amphibia regeneration. The software was also used to prepare 3D models of Amphibia embryos. The method introduced in this paper could be useful in the preparation of digital materials that cover topics on various life phenomena.

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