Xtranormal Movie Maker
One example of the
use of these tools is carried out at my school by a HPE teacher. Using ‘Xtranormal Movie Maker’ (school funded),
the Year 9 students are each encouraged to create an online animated movie video
creation.
The animated movie presentations are used to create an oral presentation about a mental health illness of their choice, for example ‘depression’. The movie creation includes their personal research and using this research they create their presentation using a dialogue interview discussion between two animated characters who discuss the mental illness chosen and its issues, lending some useful information for anyone suffering from the illness or that know someone afflicted with this illness.
The animated movie presentations are used to create an oral presentation about a mental health illness of their choice, for example ‘depression’. The movie creation includes their personal research and using this research they create their presentation using a dialogue interview discussion between two animated characters who discuss the mental illness chosen and its issues, lending some useful information for anyone suffering from the illness or that know someone afflicted with this illness.
At the end of their
movie presentation, the student then answers any questions which their
classroom peers asks.
Overall I think
this is a great tool for students to experience using multimedia as they can
express themselves creatively while accomplishing a required task. This movie creation process also engages the
students to use some of the higher order thinking processes by synthesizing the
information into a dialogue and presented and stepped through the interview
into the right order. Some of the
student presentations ranged from an acceptable level to really well thought-out
presentations which I thought they thoroughly enjoyed creating.
The website for creating these short animated movies is:
As an example I created this sample the other day, although my apologies
as the topic isn’t about e-learning but rather for my own purpose of obtaining
an entertaining reaction from my children J
It was fun!
by: cathscreations
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