Mix Images and Animation on Your Mobile
A couple of years back I wrote about a really nice web based tool called Xtranormal and since then I've heard from so many teachers saying how useful their students have found it, so I was delighted yesterday to find that the same makes had now produced a free mobile / tablet app called Tellagami . The app runs on a mobile device and allows users to add animated speaking characters to a selection of backgrounds or to the users' own images. You can then either use text to speech to write a script for the character, or you can record your own voice and the app will lip-synch you text to the character. This is very quick and easy to do. Here's how. Open the app an click on create. Then choose your background, either from the ones provided, from your own image library or you can take a photograph of wherever you are at the time. Then you can choose the character you want to use and customise their appearance. Next you can select an emotion for your character. Lastly, you can e...