My users Guide to YAKiT Kids

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YAKiT Kids is a fun colorful app which allows students to easily bring story characters, inanimate objects, and historical figures to life in short creative videos. The app will walk your students through just a few steps to create a talking mouth on top of any image. These animated clips are short and there are many animated features such as cartoon eyes that can be created. This is a great platform for students to be creative based on their writing and research.

Step 1:

Open App and press 'start new'

 

 



Step 2:

Choose one of the following:

• Take a photo - photos will need to be enabled in settings, if this is not done, go to settings>YAKiT Kids> press to enable photos/ microphone/ camera

 

 

• Choose a photo from your camera roll. You can save Google pictures to file, and use these as you make your videos.
• Web search photo. This is a search engine run by YAKiT, it does use filtering technology, but there is no guarantee with this. I personally am not keen on this, as it can be much slower than going to Google and saving a picture. If you talk to children about e-safety regularly they should be used to doing their own Google image searches.

Step 3:

• Here you can add to your picture, add facial features and adjust by pinching to change size and position.
• To alter, remove, or copy an addition just press the square containing the object.
• To match the size of an object, click it and select copy.

Step 4:

• Press record to add sound - this will show you a count down, try not to talk to soon. Leave 1-2 seconds at the end of recording to allow for transition.
• When completed, you can change the pitch of the sound, by selecting pitch or re-record if necessary. Make sure you decide prior to the lesson if you want the children to be able to change the pitch. I would advise that the children have opportunity to play with this beforehand, and it may cause giggles.

From here your picture is ready to save to your camera roll. There are other options available but none of these normally work with WiFi within schools

Further Notes:

• You can add further scenes to create a video by selecting add scene.
• Children can use AirDrop to send their finished article to your device.
• Children could decide to AirPlay their article to the board when complete, to share with the class.
• Sometimes I like to add music instead. To do this I play the tune I require at the time when I am recording.

Some Examples:

I will add to this as we produce more this year.

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