1. Georgia Educational Technology Conference Presented by Dr. Reenay R.H. Rogers

3. Animation The act, process, or result of imparting life, interest, spirit, motion, or activity http://www.answers.com/topic/animation#ixzz1wxpcVnuK http://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!

4. 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.

5. Animate Text

6. Animating text is as easy as 1, 2, 3! http://www1.flamingtext.com/?_loc=top

7. 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/

8. 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

9. 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.

10. Talking Avatars? Really?? Voki Example

11. 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.www.voki.com 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.

12. Animate Photos LOOGIX

13. 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.”.

14. Tellagami Create your own Gami for freeCreate your own Gami for free!

15. Create Fully Animated Lessons GoAnimate Muvizu Dvolver MovieMaker Animoto

16. www.goanimate.com Go Animate Intro

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

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

19. 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 http://www.muvizu.com/Get-Muvizu

20. Dvolver MovieMaker No download required Create animation quickly and easily

21. Animoto Create a free 30 second video. Choose a background, upload your photos, add your text…create! http://animoto.com/play/saHgE00q3AX3CTbwXBm3pA

24. Stick-Figure Animations Simplistic Animations Can Be Fun! Pivot: http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/http://pivot-stickfigure-animator.en.softonic.com/

25. Stykz Stykz: www.stykz.netwww.stykz.net YouTube Testimonial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPHryMqiiFMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPHryMqiiFM

26. 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:

27. GaETC 2013 Reenay R. H. Rogers The University of West Alabama rrogers@uwa.edu (205) 652-5423

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

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