Tools/Extranormal
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 |
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