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Teacher tips http://domo.goanimate.com/studio Create a simple online animation to explore techniques used in films. • Registration: D


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o o ai ae does require registration, using an


email address. There is no age restriction in the site’s Terms of use. Remind students not to include their surname in their user name or any identifying details in their animation title or content.


• Cybersafety: Find out from school records which students in your classes are under a media ban, generally due to a custody dispute. In addition, check parental blanket media permissions lodged with the school to see if any student is not covered or if any parent has refused permission. Provide alternative tasks for these students. • Modelled and guided practice: Demonstrate how to use Dm Ai ae sui


o o nmt tdo at http://domo.goanimate.com/studio. Explain that


students will need to sign up when they come to Save a practice animation. In the studio, show students how to click on the Domo drop down box and select Monsters Mayhem. Invite students to choose a background, characters, speech bubbles, props, music and camera effects for each scene you jointly create. They will drag elements from the side galleries to build the animation. Make sure any speech bubbles are in from the sides, they can get cut off.


• Preview and save: Students click on each scene to choose a duration and then preview their scenes to see if they like the effects and music they have chosen, BEFORE saving. NB It can take some time for the animation to initialise and render for the preview and to save at the end. Save a draft, save as private or save as public.


• Share: Explain to students that they can save and publish or save as a draft. They can find or edit their animation later in My page in the top menu. Show students how to copy and paste the URL of their animation and share it via email with friends and with you.


Other worlds: To infinity and beyond with digital tools in the middle years by Lizzie Chase with S Bowes, D Ivanek, Y Liu, J Riley, J Starink


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