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ANIMATE Your lessons!

ANIMATE Your lessons!. Excite and Engage Your Students!. Reenay R. H. Rogers. Deborah Samaniego. AETC 2012. Animation. The act, process, or result of imparting life, interest, spirit, motion, or activity http ://www.answers.com/topic/animation#ixzz1wxpcVnuK Bring your lessons to life.

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ANIMATE Your lessons!

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  1. ANIMATE Your lessons! Excite and Engage Your Students! Reenay R. H. Rogers Deborah Samaniego AETC 2012

  2. Animation • The act, process, or result of imparting life, interest, spirit, motion, or activityhttp://www.answers.com/topic/animation#ixzz1wxpcVnuK • Bring your lessons to life. • Grab the interest of your students. • Put your content in motion. • Using animation can spice things up!

  3. What Skills Do I Need? • If you can type, you can “animate”. • Let’s look at some of the variety offered on the web.

  4. Animating Characters • If you just want to animate one or two characters for your PowerPoints, there are a variety of choices. • www.blabberize.com • http://voki.com • http://loogix.com

  5. Blabberize Your Lessons! • Blabberize.com allows you to make any photo that you have talk or sing. • http://http://blabberize.com/view?id=242821

  6. How difficult is it to use Blabberize? Create an account (its free) Click on MAKE Browse to find picture Resize picture if needed Select mouth area (you can resize by moving in circle) Record audio- use mike, or use your phone Edit and view Save

  7. Talking Avatars? Really?? Voki Example

  8. Creating a Talking Avatar Is Easy • Go to www.voki.com. Create an account if you want to access your Avatars later. The account is free. • Choose the “Create” tab. • Select a character style: Classic, Animal etc. • Customize the appearance: Change clothing, accessories, even skin tone, eye color, lips, and more. • Add your own voice or use text to speech to give your Avatar a voice. • Choose a background. • Finally, click on “publish” to email to a friend or get a code to embed in your website.

  9. Animate Photos LOOGIX

  10. Use Loogix to Animate Your Photos • Choose the type of animation you want. • “Browse” to find your picture. • Click on “Generate Animation”. • Choose “Save to Disk”. • You can then “edit, copy, etc.”.

  11. Create Fully Animated Lessons • www.goanimate.com • www.xtranormal.com • www.doink.com

  12. www.goanimate.com Go Animate Intro

  13. Student Created GoAnimated Project • http://goanimate.com/videos/0OVigrL-BOsA?utm_source=linkshare

  14. www.xtranormal.com

  15. http://www.xtranormal.com/edu/

  16. Xtranormal • To get started… Create a free account or reasonably priced educator’s account Account Types • Free • Educator

  17. Exciting Animated Lessons with Just a Few Clicks… Take a Tour

  18. Student Created Xtranormal Animation Projects • http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13216923/historical-figurez-movie • President Obama and former President Bush Discuss Energy

  19. Some Students Just Go Beyond! • The following project included • PowerPoint • Video Clip • Xtranormal animation • YouTube video • A video game recording

  20. www.doink.com

  21. DO INK Example • Do Ink is for the more advanced student. • You can select from their props. • You can draw your own pictures. • Then click on “play”. Let’s Do Ink!

  22. AETC 2012 Reenay R. H. Rogers The University of West Alabama rrogers@uwa.edu Deborah Samaniego Holy Spirit Catholic High School dsamaniego@holyspirit-al.com

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