Easy Animations With Keynote
Bob Habersat
Oak Lawn Community High School
Why Animations?
Shifting attention span of students
Production quality
Simplifies concepts that are procedural or abstract
Students learn from YOU
Why Keynote?
It’s easy
It’s free (if you have a Mac)
Already familiar
Doesn’t take much time
Built in photo editing
Built in layout tools
Export options
When To Use Animations
For online learning + In THe classroom
When introducing a topic
For assessment
remediation
Retention
In a performance setting
To empower students
For Fun
What would you use animations for in your classroom?
Levels of Animation
As Stop Motion WIth voice Over
Text
Objects
Built in
Imported PNGs
GIFS
Object Actions
Transitions
Layers
Lets Animate
Layout Tools
Style Guides
Sizing and aligning objects
Object Actions
Transitions (try to not make it looks like 90s Power Point)
Magic Move
Adding a Voice Over
Exporting
Publishing