Audacio, Edneuci Denise

Abstract

We are living in a time when there is a constant technological advance, which sometimes we don’t realize the use we make of these tools. It seems impossible, at the present, narrate a vacation time without using any resources related to new technologies such as cameras, videos, social networks, smartphones, among others. Thus, we assume that if people's daily lives is like that, the matters related to school practice need to adapt. Therefore, in order to arouse the interest of students to the history of the city of Londrina, a city located in the north of Paraná, this study aimed to develop an educational application in order to promote students of municipal institutions the knowledge of historical facts of the city narrated by an avatar, a tool to arouse the interest of the students, which previously only had the opportunity to know it through books and in-person visits to the historic sites of the city. Thus, the proposal was to create an educational application in graphic animation form, used as a support tool for the teacher, in which the story of the city's information has become more attractive and according to the reality of the students who are already accustomed to technologies. For the development of the animation and the avatar (Londrix), we used the Adobe Flash software, and the creation was a very fun way to narrate the history of the city of Londrina. The work brings important contribution to education as it promotes the construction of knowledge of the historical life of the city of Londrina.