Brush Ninja – Make Animated GIFs, Emoji Art, and More!
Brush Ninja is a tool that I’ve been using and recommending for a few years now. Brush Ninja makes it incredibly easy to draw a series of images and quickly turn them into animated GIFs. In the fall of 2018 I used Brush Ninja with some middle school students to create animations to illustrate their […]
How to Create Animated Valentine’s Day Cards
On Wednesday I shared a video about how to make edible glass candy hearts. That activity could get messy in your classroom or kitchen. If you’re looking for a digital Valentine’s Day activity, consider creating animated Valentine’s Day cards. Canva offers free templates for creating greeting cards for all occasions including Valentine’s Day. Many of […]
Unscreen – Remove and Replace Video Backgrounds With Just a Click
In the last few months I’ve shared a some good tools for quickly removing the background from images. I even made a video about how to use Canva to remove and replace the background in your images. But until this morning when I read this Tweet from Greg Kulowiec I didn’t know of any tools […]
Why Have Students Make Simple Animations?
Last week I wrote about having middle school students create presentations from a combination of illustrations and videos that they made. In that post I shared Brush Ninja animation tool. That’s just one of many tools that students could have used to animated GIFs to include in their slides. The point of the activity wasn’t […]
Using Brush Ninja and Screencastify to Make Science Presentations
This week I had the opportunity to work in an eighth grade science class. I was there to help their teacher help them learn new ways to make presentations. The topic of their presentations was “forms of energy.” That topic lends itself to having students making illustrative animations. In this case I taught the students […]