Hi everyone, My colleagues in Atlantic City that are involved in the AC Roughcuts vlog (www.acroughcuts.com) are now having their elementary school students experimenting with a software package called Kar2ouche (www.kar2ouche.com) to produce videos. Kar2ouche is multimedia storyboarding software that lets kids select from a large collection of avatars and animate them on various backdrops, like fairytale scenes, shakespeare plays, etc. The animation is very simplistic - most kids just use it to move a character slowly across a storyboard at one frame every few seconds - but theoretically they could animate the avatars at a higher rate. The final product can be output as a flash animation or a quicktime file, so AC Roughcuts has just started posting quicktime videos of student Kar2ouche stories.
The software comes with educational packages, like their shakespeare series, so kids can create storyboards based on specific lesson plans. But the kids are also using the avatars from the various collections to create stories from scratch, as can be seen from the first Kar2ouche vlog they recently posted. http://www.acroughcuts.com/2005/11/multimedia-storyboards.html I'm not aware of anyone else using Kar2ouche for vlogging, and it's an interesting idea. I've gotten a copy of Kar2ouche and plan to experiment with it to see how useful it can be, beyond the basic storyboarding example demonstrated above. Has anyone else encountered this software before? Any thoughts on how it could be used by vloggers? andy -- ----------------------------------- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media & Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com ----------------------------------- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> AIDS in India: A "lurking bomb." Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpTY2A/lzNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
