Storytelling & video scribing. Person-Centred vs System-Centred. How to make RSA Animate style videos with your class… Here is a post on how to make RSA style videos with half the work and time, and with a lot less tech experience needed.
And another post on RSA-lite style videos. If you like the idea in this post, then you might also enjoy my other post 24 Assessments that Don’t Suck. Nothing fancy in this post, just the nuts and bolts of how to make an RSA Animate style video with your class! This is also one of those posts that is so long that there is simply not enough time in my life to go back and edit and revise it…so you get what you get and please don’t get upset. What is an RSA Animate style video? Let’s start with the most popular one: And the one most popular with educators: If you want to start at the end and see a student’s final product before getting to the steps involved in making them, pause and watch an example of one of the final videos below before reading on: This is a unit that was built from the beginning to end with an RSA Animate style video.
So let’s start there… Day 2-Drawings. Education and Technology: Creating RSA Animate Style Videos. Over the last few years, I have been entertained and informed by RSAnimate videos.
You can view one here, After reading Paul's post, I was excited to try this myself before I implement it with my students. I am currently taking a course/training by the International Baccalaureate Organization to become a workshop leader and consultant. One of my assignments was to describe in brief the process a school might go through to be Authorized by the IBO. I decided to create an RSA Animate video for this assignment. 1. Here is my final product, Some schools may not have access to a class set of white boards. Make a Video - Cool Media. How We Made a Gloriously-Imperfect, RSA-Style, Whiteboard Animation Video.
Folks have been asking about production processes for these types of videos.
I recently did one for the Ken Blanchard Companies, and for such a simple-looking product, it’s actually a fairly complex process. Here’s how this eight-minute video was created, and what it was like to do it: PRE-PRODUCTION: - It all started with a concept meeting… not just what the video will be about, but what they wanted to achieve from it. Ken Blanchard’s new book, Lead With LUV, communicates profound business lessons with a fun-LUVing attitude. CHANGE HIVSTORY. 14 Visually Stunning Animated Infographics.
Infographics are visual illustrations communicating information by means of signs, symbols, icons, maps and diagrams.
When these graphics are animated they can be used to represent complex situations and tell stories, or they can address social comment, satire and subversion. At their best, infographics in motion can be informative, involving, funny and at times surprisingly touching. This post brings together fourteen examples of these stunning animations. 1. Grand Tour of the Known Universe This is a truly awesome infographic animation revealing the scale of the known universe in relation to our home planet. 2.
In this animation the credit crunch is explained in simple steps with informative narration and crisp graphics. 3. Video Infographic. How to create Rotoscope Animation with Adobe Flash. Art With Salt. What Is a Flame?: The First Prize-Winner at Alan Alda’s Science Video Competition. If an eleven year old child asked you to explain what a flame was, what would you say?
When Alan Alda was 11 and posed the question, his teacher replied, “Oxydation.” Unsatisfied and still curious, Alda went on to help create the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. This year the Center issued the Flame Challenge, inviting all comers to take a stab at explaining what a flame is. The only requirement: Make your explanation clear, and interesting, to an 11-year-old. Scientists from all over the world sent in entries – some were just one sentence (one actually stated, “A flame is oxidation.” Revealed: The Secret to Learning a Language in 10 Days. Turning Problems into Solutions. WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson. Friedman's Theory of Differentiated Leadership Made Simple. How I made the MOOC videos. As mentioned, I recently completed three videos about Massive Open Online Courses.
The videos were part of a research project conducted by four very fine individuals, and, as I understand it, it’s been a success in the community. You can see them over on Dave Cormier’s YouTube account. The videos feature hand drawn animation, and since their release, we’ve received several queries as to how we made these videos. Here’s how we did it. The short answer Experience. The long answer Dave wrote and recorded the narration, and then emailed me the audio file.I pulled that audio into Final Cut Pro, and split it up into manageable sized chunks (30 seconds to one minute, usually).I created a new Motion project for each one of the chunks.Once in Motion, I animated the segments using the Paint Stroke tool and my teeny tiny Wacom tablet.Those projects were saved, sent back to Final Cut, and then the whole thing was exported and compressed in Compressor. A few things I learned whilst animating in Motion.