The Big Question

One of our great challenges as teachers is encouraging students to use a wider range of presentation styles.

Movies can be a great way to bring a range of text types to life, making publishing and sharing student work much more accessable and increasing the access to and impact of their work.

Xtra Normal is a great example of a simple and powerful presentation tool that may be useful in your classroom. Students simply sign in, paste their product (text) into a text box and have it presented by a 3d avatar.  Students can choose from a range of backgrounds, characters, speech styles, expressions and more. Best of all its free.

The movie below is an example of a social justice project where students were working on a short information report on a ways to reduce your eco-footprint.

Note :- A first time user took 10 minutes to take their written content and create their movie.

Vegetarianism – reduce your eco-footprint

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