Xtranormal: Do It Yourself Films for School

My brother-in-law just sent me a link to one of the coolest sites I have been to in awhile. I should probably take a day or two and compose this blog more carefully in my mind, but I am too excited to sit on this one. It is called http://www.xtranormal.com/. To quote the site; "if you can type, you can make a movie." All you need to do is write the lines for your script, and the site transforms your information into a mini movie.

I have a project my colleagues and I are working on this week titled Water4Wells to help raise money to build a safe water well in northern Thailand. Now thanks to xtranormal and an awesome screen my colleague Kerry Dyke has set up in the MS/HS cafeteria, my film will now be broadcast to the student body during lunch. This will enable our students to get the word out and hopefully raise a lot of cash for a great cause. The entire film took me less than two hours to make. Now that I know how to use it, the next one will be much easier.

Check it out:


I am so excited about how user friendly this site is, and I can't even begin to list the numerous ways I can implement this in my classroom. You'll love it. Try it for fun!