ONLINE BUSINESS PRESENTATION SOFTWARE: POWTOON

 
Hello everyone! Today I will introduce you a website that allows you to create animated cartoons: PowToon! In our class, my partner Şule Genç and we made a presentation about this digital tool.

Powtoon is a combination of presentation and animated cartoon.



And what is PowToon? As I said, It is an online tool that allows you to create free, cool, and awesome animated cartoons. It is simple to use and you can create animations which you want, according to your creativity and imagination.

It may be the right tool for you. You can use it for your works, your education or your any personal training.

Now, we are entering powtoon.com. We have created an easy and short text. We will demonstrate it step by step all together.  In home page we see that we can sign in with our google, facebook or linkedin accounts. Or we can join for free. When we join we can achieve all tools that premium members have for 2 days. You can both use readymade temples and your own scratch. Because of our limited time, today, we will start from scratch that we have created for our presentation.

On the right there are library, backgrounds, sounds, images, text etc. that you can add to your animation and can relocate and resize them. We will start with background. There are readymade backgrounds and also you can upload a photo from your library and a webpage. Then we wrote our title. Jenny and her mother. We can arrange our text’s time by clicking here. By clicking edit button next on the text we can add effect. We chose hand effect. And also we can add exit effect, too.  At the same time, you can add and remove seconds to timeline. The limit is 20 seconds. We choose characters from library part.  We can change our character’s poses. Our sentence is ‘Jenny’s mother was working very hard.’ So we chose this one.  We can add effects to transitions, too. There are many different things. We repeat the same steps for each scene. We can add our voice recordings and background music or we can use powtoon’s backgrounds. Also we can audio record our voice on website.
You cannot download it directly to your computer. So you can share it in youtube and then download it from youtube.

We want to show you our own digital story which was our weekly project.We made it with powtoon.

And when it comes to my opinions about that tool, I can say that if you
want to improve student's learning through multimedia in the modern classrooms, Powtoon will be a very effective and easy tool for you and your future students.
Almost all technological tools have
affordances and disadvantages. Besides all affordances that Powtoon has, it has disadvantages, too.



I think, the first one is that you have only 2 days of free version. And to download the animation you make, it forces you to get a premium account. But we gave the solution to you. You can share your animation on youtube and download from there.

And the second disadvantage is that the page sometimes can be very slow. You may have trouble with moving objects.

As powtoon is generally designed for creating stories, you can give tasks your students about digital storytelling, for example. And want them to create their own stories and animate it. It helps your students improve their writing skills, creativity, imagination and technological knowledge. I believe that it will be very fun both for us and our students. That's all, thank you :)