Help I think that I am Spoiled

I am so used to having an idea and finding the perfect tool-that I am in a state of disbelief I can't find a free tool to do what I want. I want my 4th graders to produce little animated shorts on Fairy Tales characters. With all the free on line animation programs I thought this would be easy. WRONG

Animash has included some (not for kid viewing pictures) clip art I can't use. The fact that it is there-well now I have to block the site so that my catholic school children do not deal with inappropriate resources. Fluxtime a real favorite of mine- no characters and no way to add clip art characters to the inter face. If I use Monkey Jam it means doing very time consuming stop act animation. Cell by cell with 4th graders. Dvolver- has a bear and a girl for goldilocks-but that is it. My last thought is to use the stamps form kid pix-

Does anyone remember Hollywood High? I need something like that.

Tags: FairyTales, month, reading

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Ransom on March 14, 2009 at 2:12pm

Kerpoof?
http://www.kerpoof.com/

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on March 14, 2009 at 5:35pm

How about Zimmer Twins? A kid in our district just won a big contest they hosted. Also you could do a great product using Tikatok (books, not animated).

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Permalink Reply by Kelley Irish on March 15, 2009 at 4:44pm

I ended up taking the kids paragraphs and putting them into a powerpoint and adding clip art. I used the motion paths for animation. Then I saved the Powerpoint on ZimZam. After that I imported the Saved AVI File into Windows Movie Maker and added the audio track. I left the powerpoint set up and deleted the text so my next class can write within the powerpoint. It is Not great-but I at least got their descriptions into one file. You can visit it at http://computerkiddoswiki.pbwiki.com/Animated-Fairy-tales Not my best work.....

I am checking out Kerploff-they cahnged the interface-so new learning curve.