Digital Story Telling is at the forefront of Education and there are many powerful and fun options available on a variety of devices, but until now one genre has been significantly absent, animation. Animation has traditionally been a laborious process and a consumer of time, making it difficult and impractical for a student project in a typical classroom. Until now.

Ever since I saw my first animated film as a child I wanted to make one.  I gave it couple of attempts in high school, but nothing turned out like I wanted. I personally found the process to be difficult and time consuming. My finished project  was lacking. Later, as a veteran English teacher, with a strong interest and background in both art and technology, I continued my search. My students shared their interests in creating an animated story.  Again, I tried many types of software, but nothing came out as we had hoped and it was difficult to learn, and an incredible investment of time. Some of the software I tried was expensive too.

Well, I have finally found the solution; I am proud to review and recommend Anime Studio.

Anime Studio is powerful, easy to use, inexpensive, and

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On the twelfth day of Christmas Wired Educator gave to me…”

A You Rock Guitar!

Boom!

Today is our twelfth and final day of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway and today’s gift to you is absolutely cool.

I do not play guitar, and maybe you don’t either, but I have always had a secret dream of learning a song or two and rock one out. I’ve also secretly wished that all of those hours pretending of rocking to Guitar Hero and Rock Band would lead toward some sort of musical talent or benefit.

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