USE OF ANIMATION IN LEARNING CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION LEVEL HIGH SCHOOL

multimedia in teaching the catholic religion only as an alternative and not as well as the goal of learning itself. Because many positive elements contained therein but also there are various negative factors that go with it. Thus the ability and skills of teachers to create and take advantage of multimedia become very urgent demands. But remember also that learning with multimedia is much better than verbal learning methods. Researchers also found that the teaching of the catholic religious education teacher with the conventional style and has not been able to invite learners to construct the material presented by multimedia. Based on this, the authors created a flash based applications as a medium of learning to help students who have difficulty studying catholicism because there are many religions in school educators who are able to master multimedia-based learning constructively. This research aims to helping teachers teach the material heavy, difficult and abstract, to achieve the mission and goals of catholic religious education. The results showed that: learning catholicism high school level is done by us- ing multimedia and animation media, are more effective than teachers teaching religion through stories with Figures. Learning catholicism high school level is done by using multimedia and animation media, it can be easier for students to make sense of learning. Learning catholicism high school level is done by us- ing multimedia and animation media, master easier to transform the material to students. Learning catholicism high school level is done by us- ing multimedia and animation media, more concretize abstract material.