Friday, November 19, 2010

Though I haven't used XtraNormal with my classes (yet!), I did make a video for our last class which, incase you want to watch again and again, I have posted here. Wow, that was a run on sentences wasn't it?

During our Alternate Resources unit in early March, we have our students advocate the use of one alternate energy source. In the past, I have used iMovie (mixed reviews), Powerpoint (they were junk), and a hand made, hand drawn brochure (the current medium, and least likely to end in yucky work.) This year, I am tempted to ask the students to make XtraNormal PSAs. Though early March is past the timeline of this class, I hope to have a student or two make a few of these for reviews for quizzes. If we do that, I'll of course post it here.


Cheers!

4 comments:

  1. Sherri, After you showed us xtraNormal with the PSAs, I tried it with my after school intramural group. They loved it. In about an hour, most of the students (of all ages and abilities) were able to create a short video, and in less than 2 hours they created a product they were proud of. The one problem I found was that the account holders are supposed to be 13 to use it....so some had to use my account. Thanks for showing me something new!

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  2. It seems like this would work well in schools because most of the work would be in writing the script, rather than fiddling with the technology.

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  3. I'm excited to use the technology in the coming months as part of my curriculum. I'll definitely post here when we've completed it!

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  4. Janet,
    I hesitate to say this, but the 13 age limit doesn't really mean anything to me. I've created a class gmail account (sciencefqms@gmail.com) so that my students can do projects like these. I will be using this account for anything from prezi to xtranormal, to googledocs when Kirsten and I do our telecollaborative project. We'll see how it goes!

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