Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Xtranormal in the Classroom

Things can be anything but normal in the classroom. Runny noses, sudden bathroom trips, broken pencils, and many other disruptions, distractions, and distortions make for unexpected happenings.

Xtranormal can help make the learning process normal, easy, and entertaining. With its easy to create movies interface, if you can type you can make movies. With hundreds of animated characters to choose from, you have an excellent opportunity to choose the most appropriate face for each video clip you create.

It takes a few minutes to create good looking movies with Xtranormal, so there are plenty of applications in the classroom, including:

- Video directions for how to complete homework
- Introduction to a new unit or topic of study
- Walk through for completing lab reports
- Short video overview of class guidelines and procedures
- Teacher and students introduction videos
- Type famous quotes and speeches from historical figures
- Type definitions/encyclopedia entries using a favorite character
- Have animals explain their own history or stories of their origin and how they survive
- Well known poets recite their work
- Students create themselves 40 years from now to share what has happened in history

There are so many more applications, but this is just a sample of the creative ways Xtranormal can make learning fun. You just might get used to typing out lessons instead of always teaching them!