Create Animated Cartoons: Powtoon!

   

  Hello everyone. As a weekly project we were supposed to introduce a website that we can use in our lessons. My partner was Ebru and our website was Powtoon!

     Powtoon is a combination of presentation and animated cartoon. It is an online tool that allows you to create animated cartoons. It is very simple to use and you can create animations according to your creativity and imagination.

You can use Powtoon for different purposes: For your works, your education or any personal training.

   Now, I will demonstrate how to use Powtoon step by step. Let's enter Powtoon. In home page, we see that we can sign in with our google, facebook or linkedin accounts. Or we can join for free. When we join we can achieve all tools that premium members have for 2 days. You can both use readymade temples and your own scratch.

 

 On the right there are library, backgrounds, sounds, images, texts etc. that you can add to your animation and can relocate and resize them. First, start with background. There are readymade backgrounds and also you can upload a photo from your library and a webpage. Then write your title. You can arrange your text’s time. By clicking edit button next on the text you can add entrance and exit effect.  At the same time, we can add and remove seconds to timeline. The limit is 20 seconds. You can choose characters from library part and can change your character’s poses. Then, you can add effects to transitions between scenes, too. There are many different things. You can add your voice recordings and background music or use powtoon’s backgrounds. Also you can audio record your voice on website.

You cannot download it directly to your computer. So you can share it in youtube and then download it from youtube.

If you ask my opinions about that tool: I think it will be a very effective and easy tool for you and your future students if you want to improve your students' learning through multimedia in the modern classrooms. 

     As all other tools, Powton has some disadvantages, too. The first one is that you have only 2 days of free version. And to download the animation you make, it forces you to get a premium account. But we gave the solution to you. You can share your animation on youtube and download from there.

 

    The second disadvantage is that the page sometimes can be very slow. You may have trouble with moving objects around.

   

     Activity example: You can give tasks your students about digital storytelling and want them to create their own stories and animate it. It helps your students improve their writing skills, creativity, imagination and technological knowledge. I believe that it will be very fun both for you and your students. Thank you :)