In the photo below I have chosen MEADOW IN SPRING. For example, tapping on Location will allow you to choose from available Settings (some at cost, but many free). Tap on any underlined item to make selections.

Use the icons at the top to first add a scene (director’s board). Creation of an animation is very simple as if you were writing a script or screenplay. Once you have two characters created, you can navigate back to the Create (camera) area and tap Create new plot. You can play around quite a bit in this area and target physical description of characters, but I tend to keep it simple, at least at first. Here you will first need to create at least two characters: Plotagon’s menu can lead you to view example “Plots” (via the Star), but the main Create area is accessed via the camera icon. Plotagon can tap into older students’ interest in animation and provide a venue for fun and engaging activities. In this post, we’ll talk about the app Plotagon, a simple and free animation tool for iPad that creates “conversations” between characters, and can be used to target emotional vocabulary. Those of us who work with middle and high school students know that we can identify these same challenges in narrative expression (I recently evaluated a student who described every emotion on a picture description task as “not good”), yet we have to shift our approaches and tools to meet them in an engaging place. Within use of Story Grammar Marker ® (see the Feelings Poster) the 6 Universal Feelings can be used as a teaching tool to scaffold from basic emotional vocabulary to more sophisticated descriptors.

For example, being “shocked” involves being surprised about an unpleasant event. More sophisticated emotions can be seen to be combinations of these basic feelings, or qualified ones. Through psychological research, the emotions of “happy, sad, mad, scared, disgusted, surprised” have been identified as universally recognizable among human beings, and “hardwired”-so to speak-dating back to ancient efforts to survive in the wild. The 6 Universal Feelings are a research-based model that runs throughout MindWing’s methodology and tools. Professional Development for Your School/Company.Communication Skills for Traumatized, Abused or Neglected Children.IEP Goals/Benchmarks, Special Education.

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