PowerPoint 2007 can be used to build great story book animations. Passy's students make these as part of their ICT course and really enjoy it.
In this post we will show you how to make a basic PowerPoint animation, and then showcase some animations that our students have made.
As a lead up to this work, students are taught the basics of PowerPoint effects, using material from a previous blog post at this link:
http://passyworldofict.blogspot.com/2010/08/powerpoint-special-effects.html
Students also need to do some prerequisite work in GIMP, Photoshop, or Fireworks so that they can obtain cartoon characters which do not have white backgrounds on them, as well as crop images. Eg. Students learn how to obtain images from the web, and remove their backgrounds and change the background to transparent by saving them as .PNG or .GIF files.
The first story book animation which all students make is "Lucy and Molly".
This is the story of a girl called Lucy who has lost her pet dog "Molly" and sets off to find her. This story was originally developed by ICT teacher Melinda Varley.
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