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ANIMATE: To Invigorate!

ANIMATE: To Invigorate!. Excite and Engage Your Students!. AETC 2013. Reenay R. H. Rogers Deborah Samaniego. 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: To Invigorate!

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  1. ANIMATE:To Invigorate! Excite and Engage Your Students! AETC 2013 Reenay R. H. Rogers Deborah Samaniego

  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

  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. Why Not Use Video? • Video is a good tool for visual and kinesthetic learners • Most students have experience using video • Most students have access (cameras, cellphones) • Lots of free video editing tools available online

  12. Possible Issues with Video • Various formats, devices, etc. make it difficult to “turn in” • Experience level of video users vs content knowledge vs ability levels

  13. See the Awesome Results! • Just the basics • A little more • Putting it all together • Try posting to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-5Ge4caD8s • Going beyond….

  14. Get Out of the Comfort Zone • Try animation software • There are lots of free software downloads available • It’s new and exciting • Most are easy to use

  15. Stick-Figure Animations Simplistic Animations Can Be Fun! • Pivot: http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/ • Stykz: www.stykz.net

  16. Pivot http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/

  17. Stykz YouTube Testimonial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPHryMqiiFM

  18. Create Fully Animated Lessons • www.goanimate.com • www.xtranormal.com

  19. www.goanimate.com Go Animate Intro

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

  21. www.xtranormal.com

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

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

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

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

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

  27. Other Animation Project Ideas • Creative Writing- Digital Story Telling • Problem Solving in Math- • Foreign Language- Have students record their voices using an Avatar • History- Animate a scene in history • Others:

  28. AETC 2013 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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