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So it's always hard to motivate students to write, and if you can get them to write
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they're usually reluctant to share, and their classmates are probably a little bit reluctant
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to read their writing. So I'm going to show you a new way that students can publish their writing
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in an animated video. Hopefully, this provides a lot of motivation and engagement in the writing
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process. So obviously, the first thing that you need is a piece of student writing. In this case
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it is a personal narrative on horses. Next, you're going to need an account with Adobe Express
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If you go to adobe.com slash express, you can sign up for a free account
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Next, you're going to go to this website. It's called animate from audio. Now you won't find
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this on the Adobe Express page, so you can find the link to this website in the description
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Once you get here, your first choice is to select what size you want your video to be
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Now there's a number of different sizes here, and you can also select a specific size for whatever
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social platform that you're publishing to. Of course, you can also create your own custom size
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by entering these dimensions. Next, you can select your background. Now, Adobe does give you a number
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of different really nice backgrounds that you can choose if you'd like, but there's also an option
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to upload a background, and since this animation is going to be about horses, I'm going to upload
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my own horse background. There my background is. So now the next part, and this is really fun
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is that you can select from one of a handful of different characters that are available on
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this site. There's a lot of different ones to choose. You can't create a custom character as
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of yet, but I think you should be able to find one that you want to use for your project. So let me
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select this unicorn, and now here is the last step. I'm going to go back to my writing
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and whenever I'm ready, I'm going to hit the record button, and I am going to record
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the dialogue of this character, which is my student writing. Here we go
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Did you know that horses can point their ears more than we can? Did you know that horses can groom
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one another? Horses can also see more than we can. They can see what's behind them and what is in front of them
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After I select the done button, Adobe will take a few moments and process this video
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and now once it's finished, I can go through and play this back. Did you know that horses can point their ears more than we can? Did you know that horses can
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groom one another? Horses can also see more than we can. So it looks pretty cool, and I also have
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the option to trim the video so it starts right around the time that this unicorn begins speaking
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Now if this looks good, I can select the download button, and this will allow me to download a video file of my animation
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So this should be a great way to motivate your students and get them excited for writing
