Powtoon

Introduction

Powtoon allows you to create animated presentations using a simple timeline-based interface. Powtoons are created somewhat like PowerPoint in that you have multiple pages on which to work. Rather than seeing each page as a slide, though, it’s best to see them as scenes. Each scene can contain animated characters, images, text and voice-overs. The end product plays as a video.

Powtoons are especially useful for: “How to” or “Show me” videos, animated case-studies, role-plays and flipped classroom lessons.

The videos in this link provide an introduction to various parts of the tool.

Signing Up

To access the TLC / Education Library’s Powtoon account, follow these steps.

Visit this link Sign Up to Create a Free Powtoon Account
Register for a free account using your MUN email. If you are registering as a group, choose one member to do it and set your username this way: Take the three first letters of your names, group them alphabetically and end with the course number. For example, if Peter, Ingrid and Ahmed are doing a Powtoon for Education 3484 the three first letters are: pet, ing, and ahm. In order they should be ahm, ing and pet so the username should be ahmingpet3484
Log in to your Powtoon account.
- If you Primary-Elementary, visit this link.
- If you are Intermediate-Secondary, visit this link.

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Note: when your powtoon is done make sure you publish it to the group you joined so your classmates can see it. Once finished, you can access a shareable link to your Powtoon. Post this link to D2L in the discussion forum or dropbox that’s been created for it by your instructor.

Click here for a few notes about the approach you should take.

We have some video tutorials on Creating Flipped Lessons with Powtoon. The links are below:

Introduction: Powtoon Animation on Creating Flipped Lessons (Watch Me First)
Powtoon Tutorial Watch me second.