This was only the beginning!
The site was easy to navigate, free to sign up for, and kind of addicting once you started animating your pictures… and I am NOT an avid artist, as any of my students will tell you!
This is an evolving site, currently there is no direct link to sound with your animations or importing photos to add but according to a review by Kyle Psaty in BostInnovation(bostinnovation.com/2010/05/11/doink…/). Aaron White, the CTO, is looking at ways to add both of these features.
So, to begin you have a blank slate with a brush, pen or fill in option. You choose your tool and then your color. After you have drawn and colored an image, you can copy it to the next frame, adding to it or changing it. The basic principle is a digital flip book, you make small changes in each frame and when put together the end result is motionJ You are then able to publish your creation to Facebook, Twitter or get the embed code to move your creation around and really put it out there.
I paid $5. and got 400 coins which I can use to buy other creations to use, to upgrade color/shape options or to download my image as a Mp4 which I then put into iMovie. See my One Minute Movie.
My students figured it out in about ½ the time I did, which is no surprise and only fueled their interest in the site, “here let me show you how to do it, Mrs. Jones” was a common theme of the dayJ I watched the excellent tutorials and was pleased they were clear and easy to follow. I will be adding this tool to my classroom Moodle and can’t wait to see what my artists create. Tune in for future animations!
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