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 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.

Animate Text

Animating text is as easy as 1, 2, 3!

Animating Characters If you just want to animate one or two characters for your PowerPoints, there are a variety of choices

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.

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 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 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 freeCreate your own Gami for free!

Create Fully Animated Lessons GoAnimate Muvizu Dvolver MovieMaker Animoto

Go Animate Intro

Student Created GoAnimated Project BOsA?utm_source=linkshare BOsA?utm_source=linkshare

Some Students Just Go Beyond! The following project includedfollowing project PowerPoint Video Clip Xtranormal animation YouTube video A video game recording

Muvizu “Muvizu lets you animate, iterate and render your idea into a finished movie in minutes or hours rather than days or months!” Muvizu Tutorial

Dvolver MovieMaker 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!

Stick-Figure Animations Simplistic Animations Can Be Fun! Pivot:

Stykz Stykz: YouTube Testimonial:

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 (205)

ANIMATE: TO INVIGORATE! Excite and Engage Your Students! Reenay R. H. Rogers GaETC 2013

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