If you can type, you can make movies

That’s the slogan of one of the most interesting tools I have recently seen for teachers who are willing to increase the use of technology into their instruction. It’s the Xtranormal website.

With this website teachers can easily help their students create their own animated movies, direct scenes and, most importantly for a teacher of English, practice writing.

I have already mentioned in previous posts the DFilm websiste. This is an interesting tool, as well, but it’s not 3D and the characters don’t speak, they appear with speech bubles over their heads.

Now, with Xtranormal, students will type their lines, and the characters will say everything they write with the help of a text recognition feature that enables the characters to reproduce almost everything in a very good pronunciation and intonation.

In addition to that, you can change camera angles, character actions, faces, moods, sounds, pauses, etc. In fact, I have just met the website and am still learning how to use all its features. Here you can check my first experience with Xtranormal.

And you can be sure this tool is gonna be included in my blended learning workshop as I’m confident both teachers and students will simply love it.

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