I’ve been playing with xtranormal.com, the site that allows you to create a movie merely from text. I’m thinking I might use it somehow next year with my English I Honors class when we work on Shakespeare.
Something like this:
The pronunciation is a bit off at times, but otherwise, a potentially useful tool.
I’m just not quite sure how to use it…
I, too, have tried to figure out a good way to use this site in class. I think it could be a great tool, but it seems like it might take a while for students to figure out how to use it well and not just slap something together. Similar to this, have you checked out the inanimate alice project? They have some neat educational packets I have used for some innovate storytelling methods.
Actually, after I wrote this, I came up with an idea. I’m having one class — my Honors kids — that just finished Great Expectations use it as a platform to present research they’ve completed on various topics of Victorian England. This is in lieu of a traditional research paper, so they’ll turn in a “Works Cited” page, but the actual presentation will be more entertaining (hopefully). Many of them have chosen to have Dickens come back from the dead to talk on some late night show. A couple of young men — I’m eager and terrified to see what they come up with…
I’m not familiar with the inanimate alice project, but I just Googled it and it looks like it might provide some great ideas. All teachers are thieves anyway, right? ;)