Animated Videos

I recently made a short PSA for my future library using the program Xtranormal.  What a cool program!  Through this program, I was able to type in text and have the character speak it, choose the motions of the character and even select the camera angle.  I designed mine as a welcome for students prior to the first day of school.  These videos are easily embeded into websites.  I think they are a great tool for teacher librarians to use in their media centers because the students can create them.  They allow the students to express themselves and publish thier work, while at the same time not exposing their identity.  They can be posted on websites for all to see!!   I would love to see students write a short story based off of a book we read as a class.  After they have written it, they can "produce" their story out through Xtranormal.  The only downside I saw with the program is that the videos are published through a point system and users get 300 free points and then need to pay for more so I would need to look and see if there was a free version for students and educators.