Friday, June 21, 2013
Xtranormal cartoons: Are they for you?
In addition to creating fictional teaching scenarios for my presentations, text-to-speech videos made via Xtranormal may be valuable for your news organizations -- or for you -- in the right context. Here's a cartoon I made of "the queen" reciting the University of Arizona's fight song on the eve of the big ASU/UofA game. The Tucson Sentinel, an online only news site, picked it up when the editor saw it on my Facebook page (and misspelled my name in the process -- grr).
Xtranormal cartoons are free up to a point, then you have to buy "points" to build more. I spent $10 for points a year ago and haven't come close to going through them. My son loves seeing dialogues he creates appear on the computer.
In case you haven't already seen it, here's the famous Xtranormal cartoon "So You Want to Be a Journalist." It's worth your time.
Steve Elliott
Arizona State University
Phoenix
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Our advertising staff in college made a commercial to tell people about why they should advertise and it was really effective. Your kids could create really effective marketing pieces for advertising and yearbook sales with this site.
ReplyDeleteBailey Elise McBride
Bishop Kelley High School
Tulsa, Okla.
I am newly obsessed with Xtranormal. Some of my students play around with it. My goal is to make a video by the time I leave here...
ReplyDeleteMeghann Peterson
Chanhassen High School
Chanhassen, Minn.
I think I'll have to join on this bandwagon and make one myself.
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