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.

Animate Text

•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•Dvolver MovieMaker•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

“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

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!

• http://animoto.com/play/saHgE00q3AX3CTbwXBm3pA

Stick-Figure AnimationsSimplistic 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 2013Reenay R. H. RogersThe University of West Alabama rrogers@uwa.edu(205) 652-5423

ANIMATE:TO INVIGORATE!

Excite and Engage Your Students!

Reenay R. H. Rogers GaETC 2013

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