Xtranormal+Animation

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**Using Animation in the Classroom**

 * === Why use Animation? ===
 * === Using Xtranormal in the Classroom ===
 * === How to use Xtranormal ===
 * === Xtranormal for Students ===

Teaching Resources for Animation

 * Why use digital storytelling? Here is a great article from Tech4Learning that gives you more ideas on the why and how of digital storytelling.
 * To help students create a high quality project, have students create a project proposal prior to working on their animation project.
 * Creating a storyboard also helps in planning critical elements of any movie project.
 * Writing good dialogue is the key to building an effective animation movie. If you or your students need more support in how to write good dialogue, here is a lesson plan with ideas on how to help students begin writing dialogue that goes somewhere.
 * Frames is another program that allows for digital storytelling using animation. Here is a rubric designed by Frames that can be used with any animation project.

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