How to use animation in school with GoAnimate4Schools

Go Animate is a great site where students can easily create cartoons by typing in their scripts and the cartoon characters will automatically speak it out. There is a difference between Go Animate and GoAnimate4Schools, and there is a more advanced GoAnimate4Schools that my students will be participating in so that they can make longer and more creative animations.   Listed below is an example of the work that I did with this web 2.0 tool

Check out my students’ work that they used with GoAnimate on Anti-Bullying

Interested on bringing Animation into your school program? Check out my Yahoo Voices article on Open Source / iOS tools for Animation

Here is a commercial that I made up for our school in order to get 8th graders to create work for their prom

GoAnimate4Schools.com: Prom Decoration Commercial by James Gorcesky

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate4Schools. It’s free and fun!

Which of These Programs is a Great Digital Film Editing Tool?

A Variety of Sites and Programs to Help Create Your Digital Storytelling Project

If you have read my previous article on Windows Movie Maker, then you should know that I would like to continue my series of articles on digital video editing programs. I recently did a project with my students that involved Flip Cams and creating short films. During that process, I have examined a lot of ways that either my students could easily edit their own footage or what I could use in order to easily display my student work over the internet.

Due to the fact that the format that the Flip Cam records on is MP4, you are instantly confined with choices on what to use……

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What are some of best tools to digitally edit movies

A Free Essential Tool for Your Latest Animation or Digital Storytelling Project

Over the course of the next few weeks, I would like to discuss a few sources for programs that can be used to edit film and for your students to create forms of digital storytelling in your classroom. Going back to my previous career of an independent film maker, I have used programs such as Windows Movie Maker, Flip Share, IMovie, FinalCut Pro, Ulead Media Studio, Dell Movie Studio, Picasa, Quicktime Pro and there are also some great sites out there such as Jaycut.com and Animoto.com. You can use a variety of software and/or hardware for this project, but for the sake of argument, I have four Flip Cameras, which I purchased through the great web site of www.digitalwish.com, which has one of the best deals to buy two Flip Cameras for the price of one……

You can also check out WeVideo, which I have a few tutorials here in my YouTube playlist

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Student Google Sketchup Images

Here is a collection of images that my students made utilizing Google Sketch Up. They got most of their information on the video tutorials provided by Google Sketch Up and they were able to modify and/or use pre-existing models that were uploaded to the Google Sketch Up model library. When the students were done, they also had the option to add their work to the library and share their work with the world.

 

The Movies that Made Me Want to Get into Education: Lean on Me

I can remember first watching this movie in our Marlboro house when I was around twelve years old. The concept of the film was quite engaging: One no nonsense principal attempts to clean up one of the toughest inner city high schools before they are taken over by the state. He is up against tardy students who hang out in the hallways blaring out their ghetto blasters while smoking cigarettes, apathetic teachers, a community that is trying to get him fired for kicking out a lot of the bad kids without due process and even the fire marshal because “Crazy Joe” has to put chains around the doors during the school day to prevent gang members and drug dealers from sneaking back into his school…..

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Toon Doo tutorials: Digital storytelling in the form of embeddable comic books

Here is a collection of my Jing tutorials that I made up for my students so that they could independently publish their work from ToonDoo into the form of a comic book on our Edmodo site.

 

How to take your completed ToonDoo pages and arrange them into your book

 

 

Once in Toon Doo, click on “Toons” and then “Your Toondoos” Afterwards, click on EDIT under a page and you will be where the video starts

 

 

How to take your completed Toon Doo Book and publish it to edmodo

Can you use a cell phone as a digital storytelling device

Using Yodio in Your Classroom to Record Cell Phone Narrations and Create Embeddable Movies

In another article of cell phones in the classroom, in hopes of finding engaging projects with my students, I was informed about a web site called Yodio. With Yodio, you can register your cell phone with their
site to record narrations. Those narrations can then be attached to images in the form of an embeddable movie called a Yodio. By pairing up the audio with the still image, you can also create transitions in between the “tracks” and then publish the film on the Yodio site so that the world can see.

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Don’t forget to check out my YouTube playlist on using Yodio

Google Sketch Up video tutorials

Next week we will be utilizing the 3D modeling program called Google Sketchup.  If you would like to download this program from home, it is absolutely free, and it may be something that you are interested in if you like builiding stuff or hope to become an architect or some sort of designer some day.

 

These are the videos that I pulled off of their site, please watch and follow through the creation process as they do so that you can learn how to create buildings and other structures out of shapes and utilizing your new found knowledge of perspective.

 

 

How to create your Yodio movie – a collection of tutorials

Listed below is a collection of videos in order to create your Yodio movie. Just click on the clip and follow it in order to complete yoru film. I can only grade your film if you post it on Edmodo.

 

 

Video

If you need help converting your audio file, click on the video above. This shows the process uploading your audio file from the computer and to the Edmodo site, and then downloading the converted MP3 file to yoru computer.