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Be CREATIVE!
Your Teaching Clips
Consider enhancing your teaching clips...
- Make sure the sign being taught is front and center.
- Maybe include props.
- Add captions (subtitles, closed captioning, etc).
- Repeat the sign multiple times.
- Consider making an animated gif.
Telling a Story
Now integrate your teaching videos or animated gifs into a stand-alone presentation. No plain old, boring Google Slides presentations this time! Branch out and be CREATIVE!
Creative Video Options
Consider these options...
- Create a single video of the storyline being acted out that includes the teaching videos/gifs when it's time to teach the new sign, then cut back to the story.
- Create an animated video with your teaching videos embedded at the right times.
- Create a story through comic strips and embed the teaching videos at the right times.
- If you can come up with another way to do it, get it approved by your teacher.
Powtoon
Create an animated movie. Yours won't have voiceovers but can have background music.
Video Example #1, Example #2
Resources:
- Website
- Sign up for the FREE account
- Start from a Blank Powtoon or use a FREE (not Pro) template
- Use only FREE items
- Powtoon's Help Center
- Powtoon Tutorials
- To change it to movie, click Preview (top right) and select Movie instead of SlideShow.
- How to import video clips
- One group member signs up with a password to share with other group members, not your regular password.
- Document the login information in your group's Google Doc.
- Communicate and take turns logging in and out of the account to work.
- You cannot work simultaneously or it will overwrite the other person's work.
When finished, publish your slideshow/movie to get the URL.
Log out of your account to test the URL before turning it in.
MakeBeliefsComix
MakeBeliefsComix is an online comic strip generator that does not require an account. It also does not save your work for future editing. You download comic strips as they are created the combine them in a Google Doc or Google Slides presentation to turn in.
Resources:
- Website (in Chrome you may need to add the site to the Flash Allow list)
- Free iPad app
Options:
- Google Slides presentation: Embed a comic strip piece on each slide and embed the teaching videos/gifs where they belong! Share the Google file so "anyone with the link - can view" and turn that in as your submission.
- Genial.ly Interactive Image: Use something like Google Slides or Google Drawing to combine all comic strips into a single image that tells the entire story. Use a FREE Genail.ly account to create an Interactive Image and include points on the image that connect to (show in a pop-up) your teaching clips.
Storyboard That
Storyboard That is an online comic strip generator with tons of backgrounds, characters, and props from all different time periods.
Resources:
Note: The Free basic account is limited to saving 2 storyboards (with 3 or 6 cells each) per month. Each group member can have their own Storyboard That account and combine the created storyboards in the final product.
When finished creating a comic strip, save it then upload it to your final product. You will combine multiple strips to tell the story.
Options:
- Google Slides presentation: Embed a comic strip piece on each slide and embed the teaching videos/gifs where they belong! Share the Google file so "anyone with the link - can view" and turn that in as your submission.
- Genial.ly Interactive Image: Use something like Google Slides or Google Drawing to combine all comic strips into a single image that tells the entire story. Use a FREE Genail.ly account to create an Interactive Image and include points on the image that connect to (show in a pop-up) your teaching clips.
Genial.ly's Interactive Image
Genial.ly's Interactive Image is a great replacement for Thinglink.
- Create/Login to your FREE account at genial.ly.
- Create a new item
- Select Interactive Image.
- Upload your background image.
- Add a Resource --> Buttons
- Resize/move the button then use the interactivity icon to add a Tooltip.
- The tooltip can include embed code, a picture, text, a hyperlink, etc.
- When finished, Share and get the link to turn in.