This animation making training containing short stories is the second activity in a series of community service activities by the FKIP UMS team. This team was fronted by Susiati, S.Pd., M.Ed. as the chairman, Dr. Choiriyah Widyasari, M.PSi. as member 1 and Irma Yuliana, S.T., M.M. M.Eng. as members and assisted by students, namely Amelia Riski, Dian Pramukti and Ady Tama. The activity, which involved junior high school English teachers in Surakarta, was held on Thursday, July 11, 2024 in the Laboratory Room of SMP N 9 Surakarta. With a background in Informatics Engineering Education, Irma Yuliana, S.T., M.M., M.Eng. commonly called Irma acted as the main speaker in this training assisted by 2 students. This training is a follow-up training from the socialization workshop on the application of the Digital Short Story Writing learning model, which is a learning model that utilizes materials in English subjects, especially narratives, to increase the values of global diversity. Creating an animation containing a short story is the first step in the model.
In this training, Irma explained what animation is, the principles of making animation, what tools are needed in making animation and how to make a simple animation that contains a short story. Irma simulates how the necessary assets or character images are obtained or created. Then canva, which is a digital device owned by all teachers, is used for the simulation of making short videos. With the help of students, Irma accompanied each teacher in making the animation. Some teachers do not encounter difficulties when creating animations, but others, especially senior teachers in general, encounter difficulties when operating Canva in the animation creation process. The topic of the story in animation created by teachers is free but has global diversity values and can be applied by students in daily life. At the end of the training, all teachers had not finished the animation because the 2 hours were considered insufficient. Finally, the service team and teachers agreed to continue the animation making training on August 10, 2024.
Previously, it was given that the lecturers of the FKIP UMS community service team received a service grant from the DRTPM of the Ministry of Education and Culture-Research and Technology for the 2024 funding year. This service carries the title “The Application of Digital Short Story Writing with Global Diversity in the MGMP English Group of Junior High School of Surakarta City”. This activity aims to utilize narrative materials in English subjects in increasing the values of global diversity in students in daily life. In addition, this activity is carried out so that the values of global diversity in its implementation are not only limited to ceremonial activities such as flag ceremonies on Mondays and wearing traditional clothes on national holidays but are integrated into daily life. This activity was chaired by Susiati, S.Pd., M.Ed. consisting of Irma Yuliana, S.T., M.T., M.Eng. and Dr. Choiriyah Widyasari, M.Psi. and assisted by 2 students, namely Amelia Riski Dian Pramukti and Ady Tama.