animation
CCSF Technology Learning Center
Using Free Online Animation Makers to Enhance and Stimulate
Teaching & Learning
presented by
Cora Chen
January 7, 2009
Workshop Description:
Language teachers and learners are welcome to attend this hands-on workshop to try out various free animation makers for teaching and learning.
These animation makers can be used to develop fun materials for listening, reading and writing:
1. Xtranormal http://www.xtranormal.com/
Create your own 3-D movies directly in your web browser. xtranormal offers a wide variety of characters, sets, and animations that you can easily add to any movie you create. Cast your actors, write your script, and share your movies with your friends and family by e-mailing the URLs or embed your movies on your blogs or webpages.
Here are some of my animations for ESL as examples:
http://cora-films.blogspot.com
I tried out the animation creator Xtranormal and really liked the many features it offers: There are many backgrounds, characters, voices in many languages, even music and sound effects to choose from. This animation creator also allows you to use the “Remix” function to edit your movies anytime. This movie maker saves your movies in the “Movies in Progress” section, and you can continue you unfinished movies at a later time.
Also, this animation movie maker offers sound tracks with male & female voices with accents in many languages, such as French (including Quebec French and Belgian French), German, Italian, Spanish (including Mexican Spanish), Dutch (including Belgian Dutch), Portuguese (including Brazilian Portuguese), English (including British, Australia and Indian English), Japanese, and so on.
2. DFilm http://www.dfilm.com/live/about.html
This movie maker offers a range of corlorfu backgrounds and characters and allows you to create cartoon scenes and send them to people as links in emails. When you have finished your movie, email it to yourself. The email will contain a link to your movie. Go to: http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html
3. Digital films maker–free http://www.digitalfilms.com/mm/index.php
This film maker is very easy to use, and it offers step-by-step instructions.
