Make Your Own Animations

There are a number of sites where students (and teachers) can create animations. The idea is simple: add characters, compose dialogue, change camera views, assign expressions to characters... well maybe it is not so simple after all.

These sites require usernames and passwords, and most require users to be over 13. In my classroom we have a small collection of usernames and passwords that are for use by my students. The accounts are associated with email accounts that I can access but that students cannot.

My approach to using this is to let kids "sand box" for a day, learning how to add animations, dialogue, add background sounds and use al of the other controls. Once they have a sense of how to use the program, we start making movies for storytelling.

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