ANIMATE:TO INVIGORATE!

Excite and Engage Your Students!

Reenay R. H. RogersDeborah Samaniego

AETC 2013

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

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.”.

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

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

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….

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

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

• Stykz: www.stykz.net

Pivot

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

Stykz

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

Create Fully Animated Lessons

•www.goanimate.com•www.xtranormal.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

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:

AETC 2013Reenay R. H. RogersThe University of West Alabamarrogers@uwa.edu

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