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learning tool 5: Powtoon


  • Description of PowToon.
PowToon is an animation software. With PowToon, anyone can create engaging, animated videos with a professional look and feel. PowToon aim to bring a touch of awesomeness to everyday communications. Whether you're teaching a class, sending a note to a friend or pitching a product to potential investors, users can just PowToon it. 

PowToon is a video-making platform for creating engaging, animated videos and presentations with zero design skills or technical background. Users can choose from a range of over 100 presentation templates for different purposed and customize the templates with company branding, content and visuals. 

Every business needs to convey their message and value in an attention-grabbing way. Using animation knocks viewers off their tired diet of snoozer slides and allows them to imagine being addicted to your product before they ever lay hands on it. not only for business, PowToon also makes education awesome. PowToon is designed to allow education professionals (and students) to create a content that is fun to make, fun to watch and gets class hookes on learning. 
  • Features of PowToon.
1. Slide timeline and animation.

This feature replaces the animation pane on PowerPoint and it is much easier to use. Each side can only be 20 seconds long and can make extremely simple video. There are 12 animation that users can choose. 

2. Transitions.

PowToon's transitions are pretty fun to play with, especially the "hands" for entrance or exit effects. The transitions are very dynamic and contributes to the fact that all of their presentations are exciting to watch. Transitions are helpful in making a presentation flow so you can follow characters from one slide to the next. This results to make PowToon's more engaging. 

3. Usability.

For a beginner, PowToon is very straightforward and easy to use. Creating a slide which uses animation is as simple as placing objects on the screen, dragging the timeline to decide when they appear and disappear and picking an entrance and exit effect from a drop down menu. PowToon also manages to be intuitive, like adding and animating text and images. 

Key features of PowToon.

  • Benefit of PowToon in teaching.

PowToon is a great tool for teachers to combine both the fun elements and education. 

1. Creativity.

Teachers are able to creatively express their message to the intended audience with no previous experience animation. In order to explore creativity among students, teachers need to be creative first. 

2. Flexibility.

Even with the library of pre-created objects, the ability to import images and music, add text and create voiceovers means that PowToon can be used for variety of purrposes and audiences.

3. Engagement.

Using animations replacing the traditional presentations increase engagement with content. Engagement between teachers and students is important in the classroom. By using PowToon, students will be more focus in class.

  • Benefit of PowToon in learning.
  1. Allow individuals to display or present any topic of interest and be able to share it with others.
  2. Attract the viewer if the presentation is well designed.
  3. Require students (when assigned tasks connected to the presentations) to read and synthesize information to later be able to present it.
  4. Achieve greater comprehension of the information being shown and make it easire to remember. 
  5. Integrate different types of formats and media, increasing the integration capabilities of the visual, auditory and motion resources.
  6. For the basic version, it is free of charge.
  7. These resources are generally compatible with several operating systems.
  • Guidelines on getting started with Powtoon.
To begin using PowToon, users need to sign up for an account. 

1. Go to the PowToon homepage.

2. In the upper right corner of the screen, click SIGN UP


3. Sign up using one of the following options:

a. Your social media account on Google, Facebook or LinkedIn
b. Entering your details according to the fields on the page and then click SIGN ME UP

If users signed up using Facebook or entered details on the page, a verification email will be sent to complete the sign-up process.
4. And you are good to go!

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