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Georgia Educational Technology Conference . Presented by Dr. Reenay R.H. Rogers. 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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Georgia Educational Technology Conference Presented by Dr. Reenay R.H. Rogers
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!
What Skills Do I Need? • If you can type, you can “animate”. • Text • Characters • Photos • Full-Length Videos • Let’s look at some of the variety offered on the web.
Animating text is as easy as 1, 2, 3! http://www1.flamingtext.com/?_loc=top
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 • https://tellagami.com/
Blabberize Your Lessons! • Blabberize.com allows you to make any photo that you have talk or sing. • Students can have historical figures recite their bios, animals can discuss their characteristics, and much more. • http://http://blabberize.com
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.
Talking Avatars? Really?? Voki Example
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.
Animate Photos LOOGIX
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.”.
Tellagami Create your own Gami for free!
Create Fully Animated Lessons • GoAnimate • Muvizu • DvolverMovieMaker • Animoto
www.goanimate.com Go Animate Intro
Student Created GoAnimated Project • http://goanimate.com/videos/0OVigrL-BOsA?utm_source=linkshare
Some Students Just Go Beyond! • The following project included • PowerPoint • Video Clip • Xtranormal animation • YouTube video • A video game recording
Muvizu “Muvizulets you animate, iterate and render your idea into a finished movie in minutes or hours rather than days or months!” Muvizu Tutorial http://www.muvizu.com/Get-Muvizu
DvolverMovieMaker • No download required • Create animation quickly and easily
Animoto • Create a free 30 second video. • Choose a background, upload your photos, add your text…create! • http://animoto.com/play/saHgE00q3AX3CTbwXBm3pA
Stick-Figure Animations Simplistic Animations Can Be Fun! • Pivot: http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/
Stykz Stykz: www.stykz.net YouTube Testimonial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPHryMqiiFM
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:
GaETC 2013 Reenay R. H. Rogers The University of West Alabama rrogers@uwa.edu (205) 652-5423
ANIMATE:To Invigorate! Excite and Engage Your Students! GaETC 2013 Reenay R. H. Rogers
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