#1 Presentation sites first try

Today I signed up for movie making with Xtranormal.com. I have already tried Voicethread, and Prezi so I thought I would try something different.

Step 1: I signed up for an account on Tuesday, March 8th at about 8:30 pm NT. The process was simple, just like all the others.

Step 2: I spent some time looking at the demos and videos to see what this presentation tool was all about. It looks like a movie making site. I have made some comics with Goanimate last year, so Xtranormal reminded me of that technology. There are characters, scenes, text to type in and some sounds to add.

Step 3: Play with it. I picked the actors, the background scenery (not to many choices there) and sound effects. I added some text and previewed it. The difficult thing was deciding what to say, so I chose to have a conversation about wikis. Students will need to have something in mind for a script before they start. I am not totally impressed with my first results. I like how you can upload to Youtube and other sites.

Step 4: embed the video into my blog. Copy and paste the embed code like all the other tools.

Here is my first production:



You might have to click on the green screen to get it started.