How does one?
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 10:51PM Go make an electronic story book in app form for a Tamizh story?
Would like to try my hand at making an animated story which my grandmother told us, which was told to her by her grandmother..
That means this story is at least a 100+ years old, probably older
The story is about an "eee" ஈ (housefly) who forgot its name and went asking different people/things if they knew its name.
Any suggestions for software, methods etc. greatly appreciated!
Would like to make this a weekend project of sorts.
While in grad school I helped create many educational self teach programs using a software called "Authorware Pro" on a Macintosh Quadra (yep, that was ages ago.. before internet days) and it was given good reviews by many students who used it.
It was difficult even to find these on google search and some of the pages open only on Internet Explorer and don't open on firefox. Was also sad to see my name not on the credits for some stuff I really put my heart and soul into, but I digress.. It does not matter now.
Things have come a long way since those days, what with Flash and Youtube and of course the internet!
Hopefully you will see an animated story titled:
"Kozhu Kozhu Kanne, en peyar enna?"
கொழு கொழு கன்னே, என் பெயர் என்ன?
(plump plump calf, what is my name?)
and the calf says "Theriyaadhe!" தெரியாதே ! (I don't know!)
and off he goes to the next person with the same answer till he finally gets his name!
Jr. and the little one absolutely love this story when my mom narrates it to them and my nephew thinks I am the greatest story teller in the world for my embellished version of this story!
This old dog is up for some new tricks!
So, please, point me toward the right tools..
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Reader Comments (6)
All the best !! :)
This used to be my favorite bedtime story while I was young. pestered my dad no end to repeat it. knew it so well that I used to repeat the story in reverse order!! aww memories...
should tell the kids the story now!wonder why i did not do it so long!
This used to be my favorite bedtime story while I was young. pestered my dad no end to repeat it. knew it so well that I used to repeat the story in reverse order!! aww memories...
should tell the kids the story now!wonder why i did not do it so long!
Good Luck! Our favorite story as well! I tell this story to all the nieces and nephews and they are thrilled hearing it every time.
OMG! My athimber used to tell us this story every day during our summer holidays :-) ....Such fond memories :-)
Kavi, we should all go into the apping business.
GrlNxtDr, let me know how it went with the kids..
:)
yaadayaada.. between this and the saadam pottu, nei kuththi pesanju pesanju......... ammayaar kezhavikku thanni kondu pora vazhi... endha vazhi thing.. we can pretty much win any kid's heart!
anon,
:)