I surfed high and low for a tool that I thought my students could and would use. Here is an animation program that does not require you to understand code or be a great artist to use it. They can work by themselves or as a team to develop a stage performance using their own personalized avatars (actors). It not only would be engaging but can be collaborative as well. The students could very easily use this as a delivery system for homework or a summery of some kind. I believe that the students would get a great deal of enjoyment and inadvertent learning from using this application. I know I will by using it myself! Another application along the same lines is Dvolver but is only supported by windows and not mac. Dvolver could be a little more versatile than Stage'd but I will have to play with Stage'd a little bit more to make that determination
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Mark, I love reading your blogs, Your are so talented and it is a pleasure being a cohort and friend of yours. I always start on your blog because you and art teachers. Stage is something I will check out for my beginning graphic and animation class that they sign me up for last month. I need some innovative tools from the web because that is all we have to work from right now. That is if they get all the passwords up and running for the students. I Think I could us this as a characteristic unit on gestures and features of individuals. Thank you, Great job.