Xtranormal

Xtranormal's mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and Xtranormal believes that everyone can make movies with the help of their web-based program. Xtranormal is a fun program for creating animated shows using cartoon 3-D talking characters. You will need to sign up for a free account, choose your characters, background music, set and voices. You will then just type or cut and paste your script into the program and adjust camera angles and sounds. Some classroom applications would be for students to publish their writing, create a conversation between people, write comedies, create a mini movie about at topic. Teachers can use it to embed into their Moodle or web page to give instructions or a review of a topic. The possibilities are endless and it is very user friendly.

In my American Government class, the students created a conversation between someone who was politically liberal and conservative as an assessment and application of the lesson on political ideology. The students emailed me the link to their Xtrnormal project and we watched and assessed the movies they created in class for accuracy.

This is a sample student project:



The following is a sample of a short movie I created for students to use as a review: