The application of educational technology such as multimedia can be viewed as an alternative approach to
enhance students’ interest and engagement in learning science. For example, creating computer animations to teach
science concepts is one way to achieve this aim. Hoban and Nielsen (2010, p.36) have stressed that teaching science
through the creation of animations facilitated the learning of science concepts in a fun and meaningful way
“....because students are constructing a sequence of five multimodal representations, which encourages them to think
about a science concept in many different ways”. Findings have also demonstrated that students were clearly
engaged in this learning activity as they were endeavouring to understand the science concepts during the process of
creating their own series of animations. Moreover, creating their own animations gave students the opportunity to
focus attention on a science concept and develop their own interpretation (Mcknight, Hoban, & Nielsen, 2011).