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Rocket by pcoover, made at DoInk.com

The iPad offers some great options for animating and drawing! ABCYa Animate is pretty easy to use. There is also a web version at abcya.com/animate
Another fun site is flipbook.
For more great tools and ideas go here!

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Xtranormal was a free version that requires students to create an account.tools but is gone now.
Doink was a free tool for drawing and animating objects. Now available as an app only.
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Animationish Lessons
I've also used Adobe Flash CS5 because our school used to use Dreamweaver for their website. It is way more sophisticated in what it can do, but that is actually how I learned to do basic animation. In fact, Peter Reynolds, of Fablevision (Animationish) demonstrated basic animation on Flash at NETA one year and made it look so simple that I finally tried it. Students have no trouble figuring it out! If you are lucky enough to have Adobe Creative Suites, give it a try!
The iPad offers some great options for animating and drawing! ABCYa Animate is pretty easy to use. There is also a web version at abcya.com/animate
Another fun site is flipbook.
For more great tools and ideas go here!

Peg Coover
Cairo, Nebraska
(Written June 2012)
I have taught secondary science and math for 21 years. The last few years I have focused on allowing students to use more tools to either learn those subjects or show what they have learned. I am also very interested in video production, both in the classroom and for my own personal projects.
I attended ISTE2010 in Denver--amazing! So glad to be back at ISTE and in beautiful San Diego! I belong to NETA, which is the Nebraska affiliate.

~~My two favs:
Xtranormal involves mostly just typing and manipulating characters so it's very easy to use. Students can show what they have learned about a concept in science, review historical events, or have a debate--anything that involves the dialogue between two characters! There is a free version that requires students to create an account.
Doink iswas a free animating objects. Students can show what they now by drawing and writing--text boxes can be used or free hand writing. It's easy to animate the objects. Videos can be embedded into webpages. Signing up for an account is free but requiresNow available as an email.app only.
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Links to more online tools

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R2Ed
some more tech stuff!