The Lazy Elephant
The Lazy Elephant is inspired by Thai folktales, and this version stars a young elephant who is incredibly lazy. One day he got lost and learned the hard way.
The Lazy Elephant is an app that tells a moral story to teach young children about the ethics and values of family and hard work.
It is a tale of a curious young elephant who was smart but too lazy to work and to learn how to find food until he followed his friends into the woods and got lost. He had to endure the hunger and learned a few valuable lessons that would change him forever. Children will enjoy the young elephant’s mishaps and adventures, the rich ASL storytelling, and the captivating illustrations. This bilingual app features a 144-word signed and fingerspelled vocabulary index! The Lazy Elephant app is also available in Thailand Sign Language and Thai.
Joey Antonio — Storyteller
Examples of the Home Screen, Watch Mode, and Read Mode.
Credits
Producer: Melissa Malzkuhn
Project Manager: Conrad Baer
Story by: Noppawan Chainarong
Storyteller: Joey Antonio
Artist: Veerawit “Koi” Chiabchalard
Animation: Thanyarat “Bo” Premmit
Film Director: MJ Kielbus
ASL Consultation: Conrad Baer
Video Production: MJ Kielbus
App Production: Conrad Baer and Tayla Newman
Graphics: Yiqiao Wang
Special Thanks to: Julia Mills
Visual Language and Visual Learning Co-Principal Investigator and Science Director: Dr. Laura-Ann Petitto
Special Acknowledgement
Made possible by a collaboration with Gallaudet University's Motion Light Lab (part of the Visual Language and Visual Learning Center), and the National Association of Deaf Thailand, with support from the US Embassy Bangkok, and the US Department of State.
This project was made possible by the National Science Foundation funded Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning at Gallaudet University.
