Use Keynote to Create Models

This playlist of videos will walk you through the basics of using Keynote to create animated models to demonstrate your learning.

You can combine shapes, images, video and gifs in dynamic ways to illustrate a process or idea.

You can use images that you take or images that have a Creative Common license in your Keynote animations.

Be sure to search in Britannica Image Quest through Classlink first, and also check out:

• Photos for Class
• Pexels

When you search for images that you need to layer on top of a background, you might want to look for .png photos, or remove the background from the images in Keynote using Instant Alpha.

You can also add video and gifs to your animated scenes. Use video you take yourself, or you might find free stock video through a site like Pexels.

If you need to remove the background from a video or a gif, a great free tool is Unscreen.com. Upload your own video here or search giphy.

You can create all of your animations on a green background in Keynote and then export them as a video and use them with the Green Screen feature in iMovie to create custom animations inside of an explanation video.

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