Keynote
Create traditional presentations or animated videos in Keynote.
Scratch Jr
Program animated characters to retell a scene or to talk about your book. Use premade characters and backgrounds or design your own with photos or drawings.
Princess Fairy Tale Maker
Create an animation using fairy tale style characters. Record your voice and move the characters around the scene. Combine scenes and export as a video.
Superhero HD
Make animated retellings of scenes with superhero style characters. Move the characters around the scene and record. Combine scenes and export as video.
You can create plain old presentations in Keynote OR you can create Animated videos with voice over, characters and settings. The videos on right will give you a start with how to do that and to set up your timings and exports.
This is a good project to try out if you like art and have time to really think of details.
This is a good project if you like coding.
Program sprites (characters) to retell a scene of the story or to give your book review.
Check out the basics for how to use Scratch to the right - and get some info about adding more detailed programming below
Screen record your program to share as a video.
Scratch JR Create Custom Characters
Scratch JR Using Speech Bubbles
Scratch JR Adding Audio
Scratch JR Add More Scenes
Scratch JR Start on Bump
These are good apps to retell a story that have a fairy tale theme or graphic novel feel. You can record scenes with pre-made characters and settings and combine scenes into a longer video for export.