Crazy Talk meets Avatar creator.

Today I taught an introduction lesson to the Paleolithic Age of early humans. I created a caveman type avatar at http://www.myavatareditor.com/ and imported the image into the program Crazytalk http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/ . I then narrated/animated the avatar with a narration from some of the content I wanted to introduce to my students. To finish it off I pulled the movie into Pinnacle and added some picture in picture as well as titles. Here is the final product...

Ice breaker...

As most of us are getting going with the new school year, we are always looking for neat ways to break the ice. I have tried many different activities and some are better than others. I came across a neat website for the students to enter their birth dates and it gives them a brief report about what happened the day/year they were born. In class I have them look up their birth dates then share their reports. It helps them find something out about themselves as well as each other.http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/