Animate Your World (AYW) is a fun, innovative and unique website that's designed to help educators (both in and out of classrooms) promote the value of storytelling.

It's an interactive experience that's a blast for kids to use! But it's also a powerful tool, giving students everything they need to learn about animation and then create their very own animated stories.
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On the website, students visit four areas:
Cartoon Theater
Here, students learn the ins and outs of how animation is created while viewing engaging videos and actual Cartoon Network animation clips.
Character Corner
The AYW cartoon characters introduce themselves and give students tons of ideas for creative ways to use the AYW software - whether it's a book report, a news story, a cartoon in a different language, or even and e-greeting for a friend.
Resource Center
Here, students discover a bunch of printable resources to help them excel in telling their story, including a project planner, story development worksheets, career advice, and bibliographies.
Production Lab
This is the place to download the AYW software that lets kids create their very own animations and share them with family and friends. With it, they can develop story plots and characters; write and record their own dialog; incorporate a variety of backgrounds, sounds, and voices; save their finished animation to email it to others - and have a ton of fun along the way.
Also on the Animate Your World website, you'll find ideas about how to integrate Animate Your World into your teaching:
  • Lesson plan samples
  • Correlations to national standards across content areas
  • Printable handouts and certificates.
    Please send questions about using Animate Your World in your curriculum to aywinfo@cartoonnetwork.com
  • PC: Windows 2000, XP, 256 MB memory, 700 Mhz Pentium III processor, 100 MB free disk space, 800x600 monitor, QuickTime 7.1.3, microphone for recording, and printer to print Adobe PDF files.

    Mac: OS X 10.2.8 or newer, including 10.4 x 256 MB memory for 10.2.x-10.3.x, 512 MB for 10.4 x 500 Mhz G3 processor, 100 MB free disk space, 800x600 monitor.

    Please note: You must have a computer with internet access to download the installer. Once the download is complete, you can copy the installer to another computer that doesn't have internet access.

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