PowToon is an eTool that creates animated videos for personal, educational, or business/professional use. It is a free, web-based (with options to upgrade), user-friendly software that creates presentations via three simple and easy steps: writing a script, recording a voice-over, and adding visuals.
Powtoon can be compared with Animaker – you will find some similarities.
Use of Powtoon
Educators can use the created videos in their flipped classrooms, to engage students and diversify the learning materials provided to their students.
Tool description
| Name of the tool |
Powtoon |
| Web page URL |
www.powtoon.com/ |
| Type of use |
⌧ Web-based
□ Download |
| Type of license |
□ Free use of all functions
⌧ Free use of basic functions (fee for “PRO & PRO+” Version”))
⌧ Educational Licence
⌧ Pay Version |
Tool Characteristics
⌧ Cooperative work possible
⌧ Creates reusable content
⌧ Means use the link (direct to the content)
⌧ Means download and upload at a different location
□ Created content needs a host to be displayed
⌧ Content can be displayed independently of the used Operating System
⌧Content can be downloaded for local use
Possible use of the tool
Where to use? (Reccommendations)
⌧ Use to create additional multimedia-based (mm-b) content (graphics, videos, animations, …)
⌧ Use to create interactive content
⌧ Use to create complete learning units
□ Use to create interactive / mm-b assessments, self-evaluation units, or similar applications
□ Collaborative use (brainstorming, …)
Initial estimation
Evaluators initial estimation
- Easy to use
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- Well-done user interface
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- Easy to learn
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- Useful for future course development
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Tool evaluation
| PRO |
CONTRA |
- It is possible to start with a free version;
- The paid version for school is cheap
- Students 4$/month;
- Teachers 6$/month;
- Classroom 10$/month.
- Ready-made template are included even in the free version
- You can upload already created a ppt or photoshop file
- You can download your videos as MP4 files
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- Most of the content can be accessed only in the paid version, which makes the free version very limited
- You can use your content only online without the PRO version
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Here are two examples (from the Powtoon webpage)
Download the evaluation sheet
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