1. Flip Animation and Web 2.0 Animation By Jon Morris Technology Educator

2. Take a Moment and load up Pivot Try to do this now. As the presentation will take a few minutes and it would be nice to have this ready to go. If you do not have a windows system, consider downloading Stykz for Macs

3. Simple Story, Simple Figures, Simple Background, Simple Software Who has worked with animations?

4. Keep it Simple

5. Simple Story Think of a childhood story or poem that is close to your heart.

6. Simple Backgrounds Use basic colors to demonstrate day, night, forest, water. Keep your scene in one place. Create a background with two primary colors. One for ground and one for sky.

7. Simple Figures and Objects Limit the number of figures. Use one or two objects, if necessary.

8. Simple Dialogue Avoid complex dialogue. Use text if you need it. Let the pictures tell the story.

9. What do you use? Paint programs that you use? MovieMaker Type Programs that you use? Presentation Programs that you use?

10. Backgrounds Paint Sumopaint Art Rage Paint.net Google Documents Drawing

11. Figures and Objects JPEGS with a white background GIFs Clip Art

12. Animation Software PowerPoint: Presentation Smartboard: Presentation Software Movie Maker Live or Movie Maker Goanimate for Education: Animation Software Blabberize: Head Shot Animation Pivot: Stick figure Animation Google Documents Presentation

13. Goanimate for Education Go Animate for Education: Free for 6 months, but limited. 5 th Grades on up. The free program does not allow students to create characters. This program has a learning curve, but it is not hard to use. No download, totally Web.20 Based

14. Goanimate for Education Here is an Example http://goanimate4schools.com/school/stjohnsbury http://goanimate4schools.com/movie/0RdeyovyoV jQ/1 http://goanimate4schools.com/movie/0RdeyovyoV jQ/1

15. Blabberize.com Take a picture and upload it to Blabberize. Create a teacher account and have students save their work on one account. Problems do exist o persevere

16. Blabberize Example

17. Power Point Animation 1)Open up a Power Point. 2)Find or create a back ground. 3)Find or create object (figure in clip art) 4)Page One, place background and objects 5)Page Two, modify figure rotate and move. 6)Repeat 7)Create Folder 8)Save as: JPEG format Images Into Folder. Select All Images.

18. Movie Maker Please Perform in Order 1.Open Movie Maker Live (Movie Maker Requires you change duration/transitions first). 2.Import Pictures, Select All 3.Adjust Duration Times to.15 or.25 4.Press play to view speed. Adjust to taste. 5.Add Title and Credits.

19. Mac’s IMOVIE: Simply change transition or duration times for the slides. Paintbrush for Macs Keynote for Presentation Software

20. Google Apps for Education Google Apps can also be used to create these types of presentations. Google Presentation Google Drawing Watch this Google Slam

21. Google Docs Animation

22. Simple Story Stories have a beginning, middle, and end. So create a simple idea: Billy Goats Gruff (Part 1) 1.Beginning: Goat want to cross bridge. 2.Middle: Troll stops goat on bridge. 3.End: Troll throws goat into water.

23. Pivot http://pbone.it-mate.co.uk/pivot.htm Stykz for MAC’s ( I have not used this program)

24. Create Your Background Use your favorite paint program.

25. Open Pivot File Load background. Add figure or create your own figure. Click next frame. Modify figure. Click next frame.

26. Questions?

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