Promoting your library media center and program has never been easier. Using quick, free, and easy animation studios teacher librarians can create engaging videos to market their media center, databases, research resources, special programs, and their love of reading to students, teachers, and the community. Combining easy animation with a wiki, website, or a blog your message will captivate your audience and reach beyond the brick and mortar walls of your school.

1. Library Media Marketing Through
Easy Animation
Gwyneth A. Jones
Teacher Librarian
Howard County Public
Schools, MD
ISTE Board of Directors

2. Introduction Video!
Live Long &
Animate
Here’s a whole page
of videos to watch!

3. Welcome

4. Connecting With the Community
In addition to
creating
animations that
promote the
media center
inside school -
embeded
animations
promote media
programs beyond
the brick & mortar
walls!

5. My First Animation Program
It was AWEsome!

6. Create your own
South Park character

7. Erase the background with PhotoShop
Magic Eraser

8. Then your character can be put
ANYWHERE!

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10. Bitstrips Can Make
Whole Cartoons

11. For a more complete set
of tutorials & directions of the
next three animation
products check out my
3 part ISTE Connects
blog series!

12. Go!Animate Features
• Free to join & easy to use!
• Just drag & drop
• Import your own pics as
backgrounds & props
• FREE included music &
sound effects!
•NEW! Text to Voice!
• Embed script for Blogs &
Wikis!
• Import your own sounds,
voice, music & audio

13. Create your own avatar with
Character Creator:
This is a Comic World version

14. Dashboard Features

15. Dashboard Features

16. Dashboard Features

17. Upload your own pics as backgrounds!

18. Select the type of asset

19. Add Soundtrack - Choose Duration

20. Adjust Scene Length

21. Share Your Video!

22. Xtranormal.com Features
• Free to join & easy to use
• Just type script & animate
• Drag & drop scene features
• FREE included music and
sound effects!
• Embed script for blogs & wikis!
• Easy to download to YouTube
• Features different accents & languages!

23. Xtranormal Dashboard
Type your script, drop in camera angles, movements,
pauses, eye contact, hand motion, & special features

24. Xtranormal: Choose Your Background
Only one background per video,
though the longer the movie goes each
background has different looks which
are revealed by the camera angles

25. Xtranormal: Choose Your Actor’s Voice
You can choose different accents and
languages - type in English &
Xtranormal will translate!

26. Xtranormal: Choose Ambient Sound
You can
choose
different
ambient sound
effects, too!
As well as
FREE music!

27. Grab the
At-A-Glance
Tutorial from
the Xtranormal
animation site
wiki page

28. Blabberize.com
FREE & Easy to use!
Take a picture, upload it, draw a mouth
Talk into the computer, save & play!

29. Grab the
At-A-Glance
Tutorial from
the Blabberize
animation site
wiki page

30. Session Resources
Everything you need is on my school wiki:
http://thedaringlibrarian.wikispaces.com/Animation_Studios
No need to Join to access Everything!
Google Daring Librarian for my blog with the link, too!
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32. Questions?

33. Thank you!
Contact Info:
My blog:
thedaringlibrarian.com
Twitter: @gwynethjones
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