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Your imagination is the limit! Endless possibilities. Pose your characters, make them walk around and interact with vehicles, locations and props. Their mouths automatically move in sync to your voice! Play it all back and share your movies!
Educational Excellence
Puppet Pals has been used in countless educational and creative settings. Perfect for book reports, language and story development, storyboarding, creative brainstorming, second language practice and countless other uses. Plus, it's just amazing fun!
Parents & Teachers
Puppet Pals 2 is designed to be an adaptive learning tool. You can use this app to successfully facilitate learning in virtually any field of education.
We have been overwhelmed and thrilled by the response and use of Puppet Pals in educational systems around the world. In this section we will try and highlight a few of the stand out lesson uses that we have seen, but this list is by no means exhaustive. Have fun incorporating Puppet Pals into your own learning adventures.
Magical Movie Making Experience
Develop Problem-Solving Skills
Embrace Storytelling Challenges
Lesson Ideas
Creating a story of your own demonstrates mastery over the topic of interest. Recreating dialogue, scene, plotlines, etc... help show a full knowledge of the subject matter.
Preparation Guide
1. Get Familiar
Before beginning a lesson incorporating Puppet Pals 2, familiarize yourself with the app. Use the tutorial found on the main screen.
2. Audio Quality
Some instructors have found using an external microphone can improve the recorded sound quality. If using the device's built-in mic, make sure to not cover the mic on your device and have presenters speak up.
3. Plan Your Story
Plan out your presentations. Almost all films start with extensive storyboarding. Have learners plan their shots and dialogue ahead of time. Teach them basic story arc principles (intro, development, climax, resolution).
4. Custom Characters
We provide lots of characters to choose from but don't limit yourself, remember you can create characters from any photo.
5. Collaborate
It's probably a good idea to meet with the kids or groups to help solidify their story ideas and plans.
6. Set Boundaries
Set some limitations. The possibilities are endless when using Puppet Pals 2. In an educational setting, where time is limited, learners may benefit from some constraints to help them focus and solve a specific problem.
7. Have Fun!
This is the easy part. Personalize your stories with your own heads, you're sure to hear lots of laughter while they learn.
Tips & Tricks
Advanced Editing
Some filmmakers want to take their movies back to the editing room. We wanted to create the best animation experience possible and that is where we put our efforts.
We suggest that you export individual clips as needed, then take them into iMovie and do your cutting and rearranging in there to create your masterpiece.
Custom Characters
If you need a specific character, go ahead and make them! Remember, Abe Lincoln's suit can just as easily be Billy Crystal's tux on Oscar Night.
Just go to the internet and grab a photograph. In Safari, find a desired image, tap and hold for a second, then select save image.
💡Pro Tip: Transparent PNGs
You can also add transparent .PNG files that are already cut out. This is especially useful if you know Photoshop or can find an already "cut out" image online. Just add the .png to the device's camera roll and then in Puppet Pals select that image from the camera roll. It just works!
💾Save & Share
Be sure to share your movies with everyone. It's fun to see what others are doing, and inspires creativity and fun while learning.
Important: After recording a movie, be sure and save it. If you hit record again without saving, you will record over the previous show.
Educational Uses
🎯Perfect For
- ▸Book reports and literature projects
- ▸Language development activities
- ▸Storyboarding and planning
- ▸Creative brainstorming sessions
- ▸Second language practice
💡Lesson Ideas
- ▸Create instructional videos
- ▸Interactive storytelling
- ▸Historic retellings
- ▸Help reluctant public speakers
- ▸Foreign language practice
- ▸Brainstorming presentations
Tips for Success
Preparation Tips
- ✓Use the app tutorial first
- ✓Consider an external microphone
- ✓Plan presentations in advance
- ✓Create storyboards
- ✓Set time limitations
- ✓Personalize your stories
Technical Tips
- ✓Export clips to iMovie for editing
- ✓Create custom characters from photos
- ✓Add transparent PNG images
- ✓Save movies before recording new ones
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