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Lightning Talk

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Want to break up the monotony of a presentation or lecture? Looking for a way to appeal to visual learners? With only your typing skills and your creativity, you can create short or long animated movies for library instruction with free online text-to-video tools. In this lightning talk, Jim and Kim will show you the basics of creating movies with xtranormal. Many free design options are offered with xtranormal: character selection, scene selection, gestures, facial expressions, camera angles, music, and sound effects. A brief survey of other free online text-to-video tools will also be included.

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Start Date

2-11-2011 4:00 PM

End Date

2-11-2011 4:30 PM

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http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19949

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Feb 11th, 4:00 PM Feb 11th, 4:30 PM

Using Text-to-Video Resources for Instructional Videos

Want to break up the monotony of a presentation or lecture? Looking for a way to appeal to visual learners? With only your typing skills and your creativity, you can create short or long animated movies for library instruction with free online text-to-video tools. In this lightning talk, Jim and Kim will show you the basics of creating movies with xtranormal. Many free design options are offered with xtranormal: character selection, scene selection, gestures, facial expressions, camera angles, music, and sound effects. A brief survey of other free online text-to-video tools will also be included.