I am experimenting with a site called Xtranormal to see what it is all about. It’s a movie-making site in which you choose a character, type the dialogue and then have some controls over the movie screen, including the scenery, music and movements of characters. Essentially, though, the site takes your words and puts them into the mouth of one or two avatars that you choose.
It’s a bit disorientating, to be honest, but neat fun. You can then export the movie into YouTube or keep it at the site. It seems like it is all free for now, but there are hints that they will move to a pay-per-movie model at some point, so I am not sure if it is viable for the classroom.
I am working on one for the call for Year in a Sentence, just for something different.
Here is a short movie I made this afternoon called “The Poem in your Head.”
Peace (by putting words into the mouths of others),
Kevin
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January 11th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Have you introduced Xtranormal to students?
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dogtrax Reply:
January 12th, 2009 at 6:17 am
Not yet.
Have you?
Kevin
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