Tools/Extranormal

Script a narrative or conversation to explain a topic- Xtranormal

Tool Description First sights of XTRANORMAL (http://www.xtranormal.com/) character animation^(tool) tool may deceive that this is for learning languages. However, XTRANORMAL enables students to make narratives^(ta) and conversations that explain almost any topic. We have seen it used to handle a question and answer session on student options. Animation is edited on a timeline. Voice can be added by talking or typing. ^(edit)

Teaching Approach. Narrative animation tools afford opportunity to setup questioning^(ta) and visualisation^(ta) through the use of multimedia. By recording an explanation, teachers can replay it many times in the lesson, observing the students and editing markup on an IWB (see e.g. [1]) for a shared dialogic^(ta) space for thinking. ^(edit)(appears above table)

Tool details
Title	Script a narrative or conversation to explain a topic
Topic	[[Topics/Narrative|Narrative]],  [[Topics/Animation|Animation]]
Licence / Cost / Platform	webtool or downloadable program
Subject / Categories	Narrative, ToolInfo, Animation
Teaching Ideas / Links
Link	http://www.xtranormal.com/