We discussed the use of animated GIFs, like the plane math website, that could be used by macroeconomic students for entering certain variables and deriving outcomes in the form of graphs, charts and tables. Also, I thought animated GIFs would be ideal for illustrating a host of effects that economic policy has on things like trade deficits, economic expansion, inflation and unemployment. To reinforce the magic of animation, I selected and forwarded several GIF animation websites, to the instructor, that members of our class had discovered. The proper use of video to support instruction, in the classroom, has been one of my passions for many years. Video has it all audio, graphics, text, animation and moving images of the world around us.
Video has the ability to transcend our minds to other places and times - past, present and future.
We can explore things with video that we would never have an opportunity to explore in real life. Clearly, this is the most powerful medium in the universe. Current bandwidth limitations force us to endure some very bad video. The image, often called postage stamp size video, is extremely small and the frame rate considerably less than we know it on TV or in film. Compression and algorithm schemes have helped, but the greater bandwidth is what is needed to properly transport huge video files for viewing on demand video.