animate your lessons!

ANIMATE YOUR LESSONS!

Excite and Engage Your Students!

Reenay R. H. Rogers Deborah SamaniegoAETC 2012

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”.

•Let’s look at some of the variety offered on the web.

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

Blabberize Your Lessons!• Blabberize.com allows you to make any photo that you

have talk or sing.

• http://http://blabberize.com/view?id=242821

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.”.

Create Fully Animated Lessons

•www.goanimate.com•www.xtranormal.com•www.doink.com

www.goanimate.com

Go Animate Intro

Student Created GoAnimated Project

•http://goanimate.com/videos/0OVigrL-BOsA?utm_source=linkshare

www.xtranormal.com

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

Xtranormal•To get started… Create a free account or reasonably priced educator’s account

Account Types1. Free2. Educator

Exciting Animated Lessons with Just a Few Clicks…

Take a Tour

Student Created Xtranormal Animation Projects

• http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13216923/historical-figurez-movie

• President Obama and former President Bush Discuss Energy

Some Students Just Go Beyond!• The following project included

• PowerPoint• Video Clip• Xtranormal animation• YouTube video• A video game recording

www.doink.com

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!

AETC 2012Reenay R. H. RogersThe University of West Alabamarrogers@uwa.edu

Deborah SamaniegoHoly Spirit Catholic High Schooldsamaniego@holyspirit-al.com