Let’s face it, no one talks on the phone anymore. Text messaging, whether through text, Snapchat, WhatsApp, or other apps, is how students communicate. There is a great website that allows you to create fake message communications with your choice of names, and then you can download these as a video or GIF. This is a great tool for showing characters in a story interacting, science gurus explaining a topic, and many other instructional uses!
Create a Text Communication:
Head over to motion-tools.com/chat-animator/.
Scroll down to the member list and name the participants that you need.
The top member will be the chat placed on the right side.
Clicking the yellow icon to the right deletes the member.
The yellow plus icon adds a member.
You can also upload an image for their avatar by clicking the yellow cloud icon on the member.
Then work on the conversion they may have below using the dropdown for the character and entering text in the box to the right.
Do this to the next one below as a response, and repeat working down for each next response.
If you need more messages, click the Plus button.
When you are done, choose how you want to save this. You can save it as a video or a GIF. Keep in mind that GIFs will play in any Document, Slide, or anywhere images can be used. Videos will require tools that can play videos (such as Slides or standalone videos). I suggest clicking the GIF button just to have it. The video will process and then prompt you to download.
Now you can add this to a project or share in any way you want!
If you want these directions in a document, click HERE!
