Abstract:

The article is focused on the creation and verification of electronic teaching aids for preschoolers and first-grade elementary school students who have problems with graphomotor skills. We focus on the creation and use of a short educational video called "Let's warm up our fingers/fingers", which is intended for graphomotor warm-up before activities in which the hands and fingers play the main role. The content of the video is aimed at relaxing the hands and fingers before activities that strain them. The exercises were designed in cooperation with a therapeutic pedagogue, who, among other things, also focuses on exercises that connect the right and left hemispheres of the brain. It is proven that these exercises have a positive effect on the student's learning and concentration. The educational video is designed and produced primarily for kindergarten children and for pupils of the first years of primary school. The teaching aid belongs to the category of freely available educational materials. In the article, we describe the detailed procedure for creating this educational video, as well as the characteristics of the programs in which the video was created. Specifically, it was about programs - Procreate, Blender and DaVinci Resolve. The description of the procedure is actually a guide on how to make an educational video, and how teachers can create their own educational applications for special purposes. The application is freely available and its distribution is spontaneous through educational websites for teachers. In the article, we also present methodological instructions for including this video in teaching. We also mediate/present the results of research and testing of the teaching aid and the opinions of elementary school teachers who had the opportunity to work with this video and try it out in practice.

Keywords:

ICT, education video application, pre-school education, primary education, graphomotorics.