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Introduction

Welcome to this short resoucre on how to design and develop educational animated videos with Powtoon

Unit 3

This unit will show you how to share with students and others

Unit 2

This unit will show you how to develop the animated videos in Powtoon and it will focus on its functionalities

Unit 1

Use Cases of Powtoon. This unit will show you how you could use animated videos in your teaching

Objectives

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Objectives for this session

Publish and share the developed videos

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Use the tool to add backgrounds, characters, styles, prompts and voiceovers

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Design animated videos in line with module/course objectives

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Use cases and examples

Designing for animated videos

• Who are my students? What is their age? digital skills?
• How will the animated video match the course/module my studnets study?
• How long is the module/course? and how long will be the video?
• Is there any content e.g. scenarios that could be shown in the animated video?
• How will my stuents access the video?
• Will my students produce also an anmiated video?

Unit 1

Design of all learning materials is really crucial nowadays. Below some considerations for the design

Let's design first

Start with an analysis and try to answer yourself the following questions:

Unit 1

• Scenario-based animated video
• Intructional how to video
• Presentation style

Let's now look at some use cases of the animiated videos

Design and use cases

Unit 1

Scenario-based video

These videos describe a scenario showing a story of the main character and a situation that they found themselves. There is learning behind each of these scenarios and they are there to illustrate concepts, theory etc. This type of videos can be used in teaching soft skills e.g. interculural communication.

Unit 1

Instructional Videos

Instructional videos will provide insights how to use for example a system, and will be always fully infirmative with some specific information. This example

Unit 1

Presentation style /Promotional video

These videos describe a scenario showing a story of the main character and a situation that they found themselves. There is learning behind each of these scenarios and they are there to illustrate concepts, theory etc. This type of videos can be used in teaching soft skills e.g. interculural communication.

What is Powtoon and how you work off it?

Unit 2: Powtoon and its functionalities

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Unit 2

Powtoon is a web based tool that allow you to create animated videos that look professional. In the free version of it you can still create nice videos , however it paid options give more possibilities. Before you get started:

• Make sure you designed your video
• You have a stable wi-fi connection
• You decide if you are the voice-over artist or you might need to pay someone for audio tracks
• Keep the script and for accessibility allow students to access it

Select the button below to watch a short video introducing to Powtoon.

Let's start with what is Powtoon?

Powtoon functionalities

Unit 2 Powtoon is structured around 3 areas:

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Visual prompts

Timeline

This is the main area where you can manage objects on screen. Timeline will dictate the pace of the video, when and what apprears

Slide Management

How you arrange your slides, what transitions you might have from one slide to another

Unit 2

Making Powtoon public

Unit 3: Sharing options

Unit 3

You have some options to share your video: 1. Download as MP4 and have it uploaded to your VLE/LMS 2. Upload to Youtube - below video how to do it 3. Share a link from Powtoon

Once you develop your video you will want to share it with others...

How to share with others

Unit 3

Powtoon is one of the user- friendly platforms for creating animated videos so let's start creating

Want to learn more? Resources here

Go here to watch videos how Powtoon can be used in education

Powtoon for education

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Check out the whole video channel on Powtoon

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